12-15-10

Okay so they put the bottom wire through that one tooth. not really too much has changed. i lost the upper left back bracket so they've decided that i'm going to get spacers next time on the top so i get rings around those molars instead of just the glued on thingys (apparently they fall off easily). i couldn't decide what color(s) to get so i just went with navy on top and bottom. here are 2 pics. you can really see how much straighter the tops are. enjoy!

owwweeee

so i though the spacers hurt, right? think again. 

I went to Dr Patel on Wednesday, so excited to get those damn spacers out and the bottoms on. Little did I know that the appointment would last 2 hours and that my mouth would hurt 10 times as much as it did with the spacers. 

After removing the spacers, I got these little rings around my molars. Talk about hurting! My gums were so sore from the spacers, that pushing the rings down made me just about cry. I got a new, thicker wire on top, and a pretty thin one on bottom. The biggest thing that i'm getting used to though is what is called "bite blocker". Since my bite is so deep, they had to put this bite block on my back molars to prevent me from breaking my bottom brackets off with my top 2 front teeth. It's so crazy because I can't chew at all. Like, physically unable to chew. This is the first time that I've actually thought "I shouldn't have gotten braces." But I'm trying to be positive and think of the end results! Here are some pics! Enjoy!

The blue stuff in my upper molars are the "bite blockers"

 My bite before the bottoms and the bite blockers

My bite AFTER getting bottoms and bite blockers

here you can really see how crooked the bottoms are. notice that the wire doe not connect to the really crooked tooth on the bottom right and the one to the immediate right of it. 

So the lady told me that I'm going to have to get some sort of spring at some point to make room for the ol' crooked guy down there at the bottom. More pain! yay!

My mouth is pretty much mush. The bottoms have torn up the inside of my mouth, not to mention my teeth themselves hurt like... well, a bitch. Not being able to bit down is really pissing me off too. 

I think I can, I think I can....

My next update will be Dec 15. See you then!

OUCH

just thought i'd write a quick update.. I've had the spacers on for 3 days now, and believe you me, they hurt like a bitch. i really think that these things hurt worse than the acutal braces.

I got punched in the mouth by one of my patients on thursday night, so i have a cut on my upper lip and a sore on my lower, plus the soreness from the spacers. let's just say, i can't eat much and i'm very irritable due to the pain. I'll write back on wednesday after i get these stupid things off and my actual brackets on! GRRRR!!

Spacers!

Okay so I got spacers yesterday. They feel really weird! It pretty much feels like there is food stuck in between your teeth so it's really annoying. When I first got them on (and pretty much all day), I had no pain. But today... I'm feelin it. My teeth are just sore for the most part. Everyone has been telling me how terrible they are, but they actually aren't near as bad as I thought. I will wear them for 6 days and then I will get my bottoms on! So here's the pic of em:

So there ya have it! I'll post next week after i get the spacers out and the bottoms on :)

Got em!

Okay, so I decided that I wanted to keep a blog to see the progress my tiny wittle teeth have made. I wanted to do it a long time ago but I'm so busy that I've never had a chance to set it up!

I've had the braces for almost 3 months now. I got the toppers on July 1. Here are some pictures of the first go 'round. I only got them on the top and I went to for purple nurple:

as you can see, the teeth on either side of my front 2 are pretty screwed. you can see how bent the wire is.

here you can see how all my teeth are inverted towards the inside of my mouth.

notice again how the small tooth is up pretty high.

these pics are from 2 weeks later, still before the first adjustment. both small teeth on either side of the front two have come down and the wire has straightened out. (You can really see how crooked the bottom teeth are.)

So there are the first pics! To my surprise, it only took 20 minutes to get them on! They were pretty painful, I have to say, but nothing I couldn't handle. Just really hard to chew! It felt like my teeth were loose. They cut up my mouth the first week or two, but the wax was my best friend and I guess my mouth just got used to it.

I got my first adjustment August 19. It was not what I expected! For a while there, I had wire sticking out of my mouth every which way. It didn't really hurt at all. Just a little uncomfortable. 

I went with hot pink and hot green to spice things up a bit. Same size wire.

It was so crazy because I had no pain whatsoever after the adjustment.

 My next appointment is October 14 and I will get spacers. I'll wear them for one week, and then I'll get the bottoms on October 20.

From now on, I'll only post on the day of my appointments. I'm excited to see progress! :)