I need help deciding whether to get a retainer already or go with the treatment of 2 orthodontists.
Situation: I did my ortho Invisalign treatment for 5 years and I had to move countries to Turkey. I was very bad at wearing them, advocated to switch to braces but didn’t mean anything to ortho. When a new ortho in the same clinic found root resorption, she said to see endo and get clearance before starting again. I tried to see the endo she referred me to but couldn’t due to time and insurance coverage issues. Now in Turkey, I’ve seen 2 orthos, both nice, saying since I am almost done with at least the alignment, I should finish it. And that my root resorption isn’t that bad.
Consideration: All I need is a retainer. I don’t want to do anymore treatment. Unfortunately I didn’t know that root resorption was a thing because I didn’t research enough and I didn’t know I was harming my dental health. I understand I am almost done but I have gained so much fear around root resorption and lost trust.
I would like to know, if getting a wire retainer and a plastic retainer would be a problem with my teeth alignment. (They want to put both on me, not just one, upper and lower).
Would leaving my teeth alignment like this cause me issues in the long run in terms of dental and overall physical health?
I have an appt to put the retainer today.

• I don’t have cavities currently, gum disease, don’t smoke or drink, have wiggly teeth and lots of fear … lol

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Just tried posting this on UFOs and aliens and it was taken down because of Reddit's filters.
Last night I posted about Thomas Townsend Brown's research into building UFOs that goes back to the late 1920s right about the same time that Tesla was patenting his own research about UFOs.
https://www.reddit.com/UFOs/comments/1csdviz/comment/l49mtn9/?context=3
I only know about T. Townsend Brown thanks to this Jesse Michels recent doc that a number of you have seen. I watched it twice when it came out and it blew my mind. I'm not a physicist by any means and can't explain shit to anyone. Just trying to pull together some threads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTEWLSTyUic&pp=ygUkamVzc2UgbWljaGVscyB0aGUgbWFuIHdobyBidWlsZCB1Zm9z
Jesse Michels actually learned about T. Townsend Brown from his doc on Grusch documenting his time around his hearing last July.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRO5jOa06Qw&t=3s
A number of you in the field of mathematics and physics with a huge interest in UFOs chimed in today, and I can't even keep up. It's all pretty brain-breaking stuff. I'm super armchair about all of this but have always been very interested. So in response to a couple of comments, I took the very simple measure of looking into Brown's Wikipedia. Yes, I'm very aware of the whole Guerilla Skeptics thing. I even happened to pass by their office here in LA after going to the sole US press conference on the Nazca Mummies here in Beverly Hills on March 11th.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbz7Ce4Q5dE&t=2s
Here's the u/thegoodtroubleshow episode about the Guerilla Skeptics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ACu-pUSHg&t=13s
Anyway, hope this stuff doesn't get scrubbed, but here's Brown's Wikipedia page as it stands now. Seems like a lot of you have already done years of research on him, so I doubt much can truly be hidden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Townsend_Brown
Brown filed a number of patents:
Patents

• GB300311 — A method of and an apparatus or machine for producing force or motion (accepted 1928-11-15)
• US 1,974,483 — Electrostatic motor (1934-09-25)
• US 2,949,550 — Electrokinetic apparatus (1960-08-16)
• US 3,018,394 — Electrokinetic transducer (1962-01-23)
• US 3,022,430 — Electrokinetic generator (1962-02-20)
• US 3,187,206 — Electromagnetic apparatus (1965-06-01)
• US 3,196,296 — Electric generator (1965-07-20)

Here's a website dedicated to him:
http://ttbrown.com/. Maintained by Paul Schatzkin, author of "Defying Gravity: The Parallel Universe of T. Townsend Brown"
One of the references mentioned on his Wiki page is this, perhaps a book titled "Lost Journals." Here's Chapter Six.
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tesla/lostjournals/lostjournals06.htm
Chapter Six
UFOs and Electrogravity Propulsion
~Did Tesla Discover the Secrets of Antigravity~?
Nikola Tesla has been credited for the creation of much of the technology that we take for granted today. Without the genius of Tesla we would not have radio, television, AC electricity, Tesla coil, fluorescent lighting, neon lighting, radio control devices, robotics, x-rays, radar, microwaves and dozens of other amazing inventions.
Because of this, it is no surprise that Tesla also delved into the world of flight and possibly, antigravity. In fact, his last patent in 1928 (#1,655,114), was for a flying machine that resembled both a helicopter and an airplane. Before he died, Tesla reportedly devised plans for the engine of a spaceship. He called it the anti-electromagnetic field drive or Space Drive.
Here's this article mentioned in that publication by Tesla.
Man's Greatest Achievement by Nikola Tesla
New York American — July 6, 1930
from Rastko'sNetwork Website
Here's more from that link:
~How to Build a Flying Saucer~
Tesla had discovered that the electrostatic emission from the surface of a conductor will always concentrate where the surface curves or even presents an edge. The sharper the curve or edge, the greater the concentration of electron emission. Tesla also observed that an electrostatic charge will flow over the surface of a conductor rather than penetrate it. This is called the Faraday or Skin Effect, discovered by ~Michael Faraday~ many years ago.
This also explains the principles of the Faraday Cage which is used in high voltage research labs to protect humans and electrosensitive equipment from harm. According to eyewitness reports of interiors of UFOs, there is a circular column or channel through the center of the vehicle.
This reportedly serves as a superstructure for the rest of the saucer shaped vehicle, and also carries a high voltage, high frequency coil. It is believed to be a resonant transformer which gives the electrostatic and electromagnetic charge to the craft and establishes polarity.
This coil is relative to what is known as a Tesla coil. The Tesla Coil of course, was invented by Tesla in 1891. This column or channel is approximately two feet in diameter and is hollow. On some vehicles this hollow area has a turbine generator in it.
When the vacuum is created on one hemisphere of the craft, the atmospheric pressure is allowed to rush through the tube to drive a sort of turbine electrical generator. Some reports say the extraterrestrials use this system as stationary power plants for electrical energy on their planets as well.
The eyes of the craft are arranged by electro-optic lenses placed at quadrants or wherever they wish to see from. The screen-like monitors are placed on a console where the navigator can observe all areas around and about the vehicle at the same time. This includes the magnification lenses which are used without changing positions.
There are also windows about elbow level and about one foot through or thick. This distance would have to be in view of the four or more walls or plates of the capacitor hulls making up the major portion of the craft. The windows have an iris type of shutter so that when it is closed, it allows electrostatic charge to flow evenly.
~Dr T. Townsend Brown and Electrogravitics~
The idea of using high voltage electricity as a means of propulsion is not new. Tesla laid the groundwork in the late 19th century which was then continued by such notables as Thomas Townsend Brown, who discovered in 1923 what was later called the Biefeld -Brown Effect.
Thomas Townsend Brown, was a physics student of Dr. Paul Alfred Biefeld at the California Institute for Advanced Studies. Brown noticed that when he had two plates carrying high voltages of direct current separated by a dielectric, the negative electrode moved by itself in the direction of the positive plate. In other words, Townsend Brown discovered that it is possible to create an artificial gravity field by charging an electrical capacitor to a high-voltage.
He built a special capacitor which utilized a heavy, high charge-accumulating (high K-factor) dielectric material between its plates and found that when charges with between 70,000 to 300,000 volts, it would move in the direction of its positive pole. When oriented with its positive side up, it would proceed to lose about one percent of it's weight.
He attributed this motion to an electrostatically-induced gravity field acting between the capacitor's oppositely charged plates. By 1958, he had succeeded in developing a 15 inch diameter model saucer that could lift over 110% of its weight. Brown's experiments had launched a new field of investigation which came to be known as Electrogravitics, the technology of controlling gravity through the use of high-voltage electric charge.
As early as 1952, an Air Force major general witnessed a demonstration in which Brown flew a pair of 18 inch disc airfoils suspended from opposite ends of a rota-table arm. When electrified with 50,000 volts, they circuited at a speed of 12 miles per hour.
About a year later, he flew a set of 3 foot diameter saucers for some Air Force officials and representatives from a number of major aircraft companies. When energized with 150,000 volts, the discs sped around the 50 foot diameter course so fast that the subject was immediately classified.
Interavia magazine later reported that the discs could attain speeds of several hundred miles per hour when charged with several hundred thousand volts. Brown's discs were charged with a high positive voltage, on a wire, running along their leading edge and a high negative voltage, on a wire, running along their trailing edge.
As the wires ionized the air around them, a dense cloud of positive ions would form ahead of the craft and corresponding cloud of negative ions would form behind the craft. Brown's research indicated that, like the charged plates of his capacitors, these ion clouds induced a gravitational force directed in the minus to plus direction.
As the disc moved forward in the response to its self generated gravity field, it would carry with it its positive and negative ion clouds and their associated electrogravity gradient. Consequently, the discs would ride their advancing gravity wave much like surfers ride an ocean wave.
Dr. Mason Rose, one of Townsend's colleagues, described the discs principle of operation as follows:
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Although skeptics at first thought that the discs were propelled by more mundane effects such as the pressure of negative ions striking the positive electrode. Brown later carried out vacuum chamber tests which proved that a force was present even in the absence of such ion thrust.
He did not offer a theory to explain this unconventional electrogravitic phenomenon; except to say that it was predicted neither by general relativity nor by modern theories of electromagnetism. However, recent advances in theoretical physics provide a rather straightforward explanation of the principle.
According to the novel physics of subquantum kinetics, gravity potential can adopt two polarities, instead of one. Not only can a gravity field exist in the form of a matter-attracting gravity potential well, as standard physics teaches, but it can also exist in the form of a matter repelling gravity potential hill.
Moreover, it predicts that these gravity polarities should be directly matched with electrical polarity; positively charged particles such as protons generating gravity wells and negatively charged particles such as electrons generating gravity hills.
Thus contrary to conventional theory, the electron produces a matter-repelling gravity field. Electrical neutral matter remains gravitationally attractive because of the proton's G-well marginally dominates the electron's G-hill. Consequently, subquantum kinetics predicts that the negative ion cloud behind Brown's disc should form a matter repelling gravity hill while the positive ion cloud ahead of the disc should form a matter attracting gravity well.
As increasing voltage is applied to the disc, the gravity potential hill and well become increasing prominent and the gravity potential gradient between them increasing steep. In Rose's terminology, the craft would find itself on the incline of a gravitational hill. Since gravity force is known to increase in accordance with the steepness of such a gravity potential slope, increased voltage would induce an increasingly strong gravity force on the disc and would act in the direction of the positive ion cloud. The disc would behave as if it was being tugged by a very strong gravitational field emanating from an invisible planet sized mass positioned beyond its positive pole.
Early in 1952 Brown had put together a proposal, code named Project Winterhaven, which suggested that the military developed an antigravity combat saucer with Mach-3 capability. The 1956 intelligence study entitledElectrogravitics Systems - An Explanation of Electrostatic Motion, Dynamic Counterbary and Barycentric Control, prepared by the private aviation intelligence firm, Aviation Studies International Ltd., indicates that as early as November 1954 the Air Force had begun plans to fund research that would accomplish Project Winterhaven's objectives.
The study, originally classified Confidential, mentions the name of more than ten major aircraft companies which were actively involved in the electrogravitics research in an attempt to duplicate or extend Brown's seminal work. Additional information is to be found in another aviation intelligence report entitled: The Gravitics Situation.
Unfortunately, due to the militaries TOP SECRET classification, Townsend Brown's work has not appeared in any physics or science publications that can be accessed.

Hello there fellow Bummers! We're EARLY with our next major Bumchat update!
So much has happened in the last week (we released an average of six updates per day), lets talk about it:

• Added Personas
• Added Side Context (this one is special)
• Added Fancy Pants
• Added chat message editing
• Switched to our new fine-tuned models
• Dramatically improved our UX
• Had an outage 😢
• Hundreds of new signups, and thousands of messages sent!
• We crossed a HUGE subscriber milestone!

We've been working day and night to make Bumchat the best possible character chat app, and we're only just getting started.
Gem Giveaway!
Lets cut straight to it; Bumchat is lacking in character diversity. We need more characters ASAP. This week I hope to add tavern card importing, but even still, tavern characters have less features than our native ones.
For some indeterminate amount of time; we'll be giving away 300 gems every day to our top daily kudos earner. The only way to earn kudos at the moment is via upvotes on public characters - this will be expanding in the next week or so with Trinkets. The giveaway will happen daily at 9am UTC, and the most recent giveaway recipients will be listed on the leaderboard page.
Personas
Personas are familiar to most people who use similar chat apps. Our personas allow you to switch your identity in a chat at any time. Our personas include fields for physical and personality traits, as well as additional information.
Personas!
Side Context
This one is special! We're extremely excited about this feature. Its something we dreamt up years ago and expected other chat apps to implement... years ago. Long before Bumchat was a glint in our eyes, we had written custom scripts to implement this in our favourite local inference frontend. Side Context keeps the chat consistent for far longer than without it.
I'll use a scenario to demonstrate the problem; you're chatting to your favourite character, and somewhere in the character card it says "{{char}} is standing by the open fridge, ready to offer you a drink". After that, no matter what happens in your chat, after some time, your chat will *always* gravitate back to that fridge and drink.
Side Context adds several fields at the chat level, currently for Location, Outfit and Mood (with more in testing). In your character card, you fill out the fridge part at the "starting location", and when that changes naturally during roleplay (for example "we went to the bed room"), the relevant side context is updated automatically and now there is no mention of a fridge anywhere in your prompt.
This has a dramatic effect on chat coherence, but it requires additional inference by the LLM. So we've limited its use to chats sent to our flagship Suno model (which we've also reduced the usage cost of by 25% this week).
An additional benefit of side context is; it keeps outfits consistent and updates them automatically - which means you no longer have to stop the flow of the conversation to ask "wait, what are you wearing?"
Side context adds a couple of seconds to response generation when used, and it can be turned off completely in the new chat settings menu above the send button.
Yuno started in her office, but now we're walking in the park.
Fancy Pants
Fancy Pants are the new name/branding for our subscription tier. We believe strongly that all features of Bumchat should be free to use. Fancy pants allow you to blow past limits imposed on free usage of features. We plan to add significant benefits to our Fancy Pants subscribers with EVERY major update. For this first release, FP members can create unlimited personas, while free users have a limit to the amount of personas they can maintain at once.
Our New Models
Bumchat is now supported under-the-hood by five separate models! We have Aura, Muse and Suno, but then also one for generating our character creator suggestions, and a different one for generating Side Context entries. We're iterating on these several times a week at the moment, so some chat quirks might come and go. We're currently very happy with our models' performance.
Big Much Thanks
Last week I mentioned that Bumchat was 4% of the way towards being profitable. This week, I'm happy to report both that Bumchat is MORE EXPENSIVE to run, and yet we're over 50% of the way towards profitability!
Thanks so much to our Fancy Pants subscribers and our free users alike! If we can cover our basic infrastructure costs, we can continue to improve the value proposition for all users, free and paid alike. Ideally, we would be able to completely remove the concept of Gems from Bumchat altogether.
Looking forward
We're going to continue working day and night on Bumchat. We won't stop. We will make Bumchat the single best one of these character chat apps available. We're going to redefine the industry with some of our upcoming features, and we're dedicated to forever pushing the envelope forward on UX. We come from a game development background, and our belief is that character chat apps should be more dynamic and interactive, more self aware and less linear by default.
This week (today!) we're going to launch our first ever advertising campaign. We have no idea what to expect, but hopefully it leads to good things. We've already come so far with zero advertising.
Our next major update will include Trinkets, another unique feature that we're extremely excited about.
As always, we love to hear your feedback. Please reach out to us on Discord, or here on Reddit.
And finally, you can find Bumchat itself over at Bumchat.ai