I've had braces for more than a year now, and since my case was not complicated, and the orthodentist set a treatment plan of 9-13 months, I should be close to removing them now, and it was confirmed by my ortho that I'll have them off in about a month. But my teeth don't look done. In fact he is still repositioning brackets till this day to fix things that I point out to him, and he didn't even notice. Not sure he will deliver a good final result.