Braces for protruding front teeth in your 40s?

Since I was young, I often heard that I had a well-aligned and pretty smile, but in my mid-20s, all four of my wisdom teeth came out at almost the same time, and I suffered a lot from toothache.

Since most of my teeth have grown in, my front teeth have become really stiff(?)

When I asked at the dentist, they said that one of my upper wisdom teeth was growing horizontally and pushing against the other teeth. They asked how I could endure the pain. They told me I couldn't have it removed here and to go to a university hospital, so I went to a large university hospital and spent a lot of money (16,000 won at the time) to have the horizontally growing wisdom tooth broken into pieces and the roots extracted while lying down.

If you can't take care of your wisdom teeth, they rot and become a trouble, so I decided to have all four wisdom teeth, both upper and lower, extracted at once.

I couldn't eat for a couple of days due to extraction pain, and I lost weight, so I was really happy🤣

Since then, I have been doing well without any issues, but around my 30s, I started to notice that the gap between my teeth was slightly widening.

I thought it was nothing serious since people say it happens as you get older, but it kept getting worse, and eventually it became noticeable enough to be like pop star Madonnaㅠ

The dentist said that if you're already married and not for cosmetic purposes, there's no need to get braces, so I thought, yeah, I'm not going to compete in Miss Korea anyway, and just went on with my life.

But lately, I've been really 고민입니다.

Because since then, my teeth have become more spaced out, so when I eat noodles or thin soup, a strand of the noodle gets stuck between my teeth and can't be cut.

Sometimes, I unconsciously bite my tongue and front teeth together, which surprises me.

I'm worried that if this keeps up, I'll develop a prognathism... It's also for cosmetic reasons, but I'm worried it might cause malocclusionㅜㅜ

I'm wondering whether I should get orthodontic treatment now.

I just turned 40...

Are there any others who, like me, started orthodontic treatment in their 40s?

What is the prognosis?