Week 93: A Little Movement and Snapping Elastics..

Morning!

I've been noticing that when I have my elastics in, that my gaps on the right side are a lot smaller but once I take the elastics out, it seems like the gaps open back up. So hopefully, with religious elastic wear, the gaps will close all the way and stay that way.

My gap between my two front teeth is shrinking too and my upper midline is slowly moving towards the center to meet my lower midline.

I've also been having problems with my elastics snapping in my mouth. Whenever I yawn, they snap a little against my gums without breaking.. But they have also snapped and broke in my mouth a few times. My husband can usually hear when they snap and he looks at me with very wide eyes and says, Ouch! O.o

It is a bit painful when the elastics break but I just go and put a new pair in and I've just been trying to not yawn as wide. lol

That's about all the news I have.

Cya

Dental Cleaning and 21 Months

Hi!

Dental cleaning went really, really well. The dental hygenist only had to scrap my teeth a little, she told me that I have the cleanest teeth she has ever seen in an orthodontic patient.  That made me happy. There were no cavities whatsoever and everything looked really great.

The only problem that the hygenist had was that my lowers were a bit tight and the floss kept shredding in between my teeth. Hoping that by the end of my treatment, I'll have a little bit of space to get the floss through.

So my prayer was answered and I had a clean bill of dental health. :)

I love the number 21.. I don't really know why but I just do. In 3 months, it will be 2 years in braces. Wow!

Hoping that I won't have much longer to go.


Will do a comparison soon.

Cya

Week 91: Adjusted to the Elastics

Hi!

Everything is better now. My teeth have adjusted to my boxes and now it's really no big deal. I just think those first few days are the worst with elastics because of how sore your teeth are from just the adjustment and then you have something that pulls on your teeth. It's just a bit rough.

I'm just glad I feel so much better.

Anywho, I have a cleaning tomorrow. So I am praying that I have no cavities. We shall see what happens. :)

Lets see, it kind of looks like my upper teeth on the right side are coming down a bit Which is pretty exciting!. So yes, as painful as it might be, elastics really work.
Can not wait until the final result.

Until next time.

Box Elastics... How I despise you..

I woke up around 4am this morning, because my lowers were super sore. So I took some pain meds and attempted to go back to sleep. I pretty much tossed and turned all night.

On top of that, when my alarm went off, I got up to brush my teeth, and I had a bleeding sore from my rubber band rubbing the inside of my lip so much. I was not a happy camper.

I did salt water rinse and that helped some what. I didn't have this much trouble when I was in my other elastic config.


Have to keep telling myself, that the end result is worth it. Just grin and bear it!

24 Hours: A Bit Sore

Evening!

My teeth are a bit sore and these box elastics are rubbing the inside of my mouth raw. I noticed that I can't open my mouth very wide so yawning looks pretty funny. I can fit a teaspoon in my mouth with my elastics in... So applesauce.. yum!

The positive though, is that I'll get use to the elastics and the pain will subside and everything will be good again.


Bye.

Adjustment 15:The Dreaded Elastics Have Returned!

Hi!

15th adjustment went pretty well.

I was called back to the row of chairs and the ortho assistant, started removing my ligs and wires. She told me that I was getting stainless steel wires and powerchains to close my gaps. I was like ok, that's fine. Well, my ortho came over and told me to smile and then turn my head to the left and bite down. He tells the ortho assistant, "I want boxes on both sides," then walks away.

So I asked the ortho assistant, if that meant I would have to wear elastics again and she's like yep, you sure do. Luckily, they're still Zebras so the weight didn't change. But she told me that, it's to bring my bite together a little more. My thought was, well this is better than Zigzags so I'll deal with it.

Anyway, the stainless steel wire was a pain going in as always and I immediately felt pressure once they were all the way in. The powerchains really weren't that bad.

With my elastics being in a different configuration, it's just a bit weird. For one, this configuration gives me a bit of a headache and it's awkward putting chap stick on and trying to rub my lips together.. weirdest face ever! lol

I don't have a clue about what's going to happen at my next adjustment. So we'll just have to wait and see.


Bye!

The dreaded box elastics. I don't really mind that they sit right in front.

 I just hate the elastics rubbing the inside of my mouth raw!

For some reason, my lowers look off to me. I know that I still have a while to go before 

I'm debanded but I hope my ortho can get rid of my black triangles and straighten up my lowers.

My gap between my two front teeth actually looks like it's getting smaller. :)

Week....... 89? I think.

Howdy! Just thought I'd pop on here a minute.

Let's see... My adjustment is on Monday and... I'm not too excited about it. Not looking forward to the stainless steel wires and possible powerchains.. I'm going to hurt for sure.

Besides, that I don't really have any news. Part of the reason, I haven't been blogging much. But after I have my adjustment on Monday, I will be blogging away.

Cya later!