You know, I hate to influence you on that so negatively. I mean, it might be that you're one of the people who sails cleanly through the whole experience. OTOH, if I didn't have such horrible memories of the metal braces, I would have saved myself probably a lot of money and trouble by having the brackets instead. The nice thing about these is that you can take them off, and brush and floss normally. But there are definitely downsides, just as there are with metal. It seems to be very different for different people.