My daughter just got hers off this past August. She was 11 when she got them. We had to wait for her to lose all her baby teeth. She had a plastic like retainer she wears every night to sleep and a cemented one on the bottom. Her teeth look beautiful. Mine aren’t super straight by any means but I wish I had hers now. Haha She knows how costly they were and she’s good at wearing her retainer like she’s supposed to. Check back in a yr and let’s see if she’s still on top of it. Haha