So, the good news is that my teeth are moving. They already look straighter to me:) That makes me really happy. I just want them to move as fast as possible, I wish there was a way I could speed it up!
One bad news item, I had a bracket fall off on Friday:/ It was on a crown, and they used the regular cement, so they said it was a possibility that it would fall off.
I just covered the wire with some wax and they got me in first thing Monday morning to get it reattached. This time, the roughed up my crown a little and put special adhesive on. He told me he would repolish it and everything when the braces come off.
He reattached the arch wire to that side of my mouth and I was on my way in just a few minutes:)
I've gotten to the point just the last couple of days that I haven't been using wax. I'm sure I'll use it again, but for right now, it feels okay without:) I've also started eating regular food! Which is awesome, because I love mashed potatoes and soup...but enough is enough.
I'm really happy to actually be seeing results. I'm having a hard time being patient:) He estimated 3-5 months of treatment, I hope it's only 3! I've read that there's really no way to make it go faster though, the best things I can do is just have really good oral hygiene and stay away from problem foods. So, I will do that and have fun watching my teeth move.
I can tell my right side has come down to form a straight wire line, which is awesome. Also, I thought it might look weird with so much gum on top, but it looks like the tooth has pulled down further out of my gums, exposing more enamel rather than moving the gum down too. (That makes more sense; I don't know why I thought it would happen the other way around.)
My left side is coming down, although not as fast. The little tooth to the side of my big tooth is still pretty crooked, but to me it looks a little straighter.:) My front teeth are becoming less angled. I can feel it on the back of my teeth, and also the bottoms of the front look straighter. They're still overlapping a touch, but they are definitely moving. The goal of the next few weeks is to get a gap going between my two front teeth. I'm getting a little chapped in both corners of my mouth.
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| Wednesday, December 11, the day I got my braces on |
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| Wednesday, December 18, one week later |
It takes forever to clean my braces. Especially when I have to spend AT LEAST five minutes every night staring at them trying to see them move;)
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