Finally hit the five-week mark with my braces and things are still improving greatly. This week more than any other week I have noticed changes in my bite. My "overbite" is beginning to look more like a "normal" bite. When I smile now, my front teeth evenly meet with my bottom teeth (and I can feel it too, which is kind of weird lol) and my grin itself is also much wider than it was pre-braces. My grin used to be small and awkward looking but now my smile is much bigger and looks much more natural, which makes it all the more fun to smile for pictures =].
As for the rest of my teeth, they are moving as well. I'm especially impressed with my trouble tooth; the gap is beginning to close and the tooth is beginning to look like a normal tooth. The other two teeth on the other side are also looking normal too; unless you get really close, you can't even tell that those teeth were even "gappy" at one point. I'm just so thrilled with the progress that has been made and what is yet to come. Next week it's going to be six weeks! I can hardly believe it :O!
Next week, because my next adjustment is set for Wednesday (remember, I did it this way so that I wouldn't have to go on Tuesday, my birthday?), I won't be blogging on Tuesday and will just be waiting until Wednesday to write up my next update. Things will get back to normal the following week, with an entry on that Tuesday =].
Until next week, bye! ♥
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Braces: Week 4 (one month!!): July 21st, 2009
So it's my 4th week with braces and, even more exciting, today is my one month mark! Bloggers, I've now made it through a whole month with braces! This is soooo exciting =]. Also, my teeth have shown remarkable movement (which I'd like to show you all through pictures but I still don't have the technology to do so =[), especially on my top teeth. The gap below my trouble tooth is slowly but surely beginning to close and my other two teeth on the other side of my front teeth are almost completely closed; the gap there is almost nonexistent when I look in a mirror from far away. Speaking of far away, I'm really liking the baby blue ligs on my teeth that I wrote you all about last week. The brightness to them that I blogged about has finally died down and now when I look at myself from far away, you kind of have to do a double take and wonder if I actually have braces on or not (at least until I get closer to the mirror lol), which is great because this means other people won't notice them from far away either. I think I'm going to stick with this color until the end of my treatment; school starts a little over a month away and I don't want to head into my first class with dark colored ligs. If anyone who's reading this has experience with braces colors and have any suggestions on what other lighter colors are available and what I should use next, comment and give me your suggestions! =] ♥ If not, I'm just going to stick with the baby blue =].
Until next week bloggers! Oh, and totally defying what I said in my first entry, I'm debating, yes I said it, debating on making a second blog on here that's kind of a fun blog that will keep you all up-to-date on my life, minus braces. But I'm not totally/completely sure if I'm going to yet, I already have a journal going on my LiveJournal and am attempting to get another one started on the beta journaling site Dreamwidth. So blogging here as well is a maybe and it might not turn into anything at all, but we'll see ;].
Have a good week all! =]
Until next week bloggers! Oh, and totally defying what I said in my first entry, I'm debating, yes I said it, debating on making a second blog on here that's kind of a fun blog that will keep you all up-to-date on my life, minus braces. But I'm not totally/completely sure if I'm going to yet, I already have a journal going on my LiveJournal and am attempting to get another one started on the beta journaling site Dreamwidth. So blogging here as well is a maybe and it might not turn into anything at all, but we'll see ;].
Have a good week all! =]
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Braces: Week 3 and First Appointment, July 14th 2009
Today marks my third week in braces and what makes this third week even more "exciting" was that I went in for my first ortho appointment since having braces. Yeah, I know, three weeks in and I'm already having adjustments done (I guess that's the politically correct term for tightening lol). Most people have them done every six weeks but Dino tells me that going every three weeks or so will help the process to get done faster and he gets no argument from me on that one because I want this whole thing done as much as he does so if I have to go every three weeks for the rest of the summer then so be it =].
Now, onto the appointment. The beginning was quite hairy because I really didn't know what we would be doing. He'd kind of explained it to me after I got my braces put on but by that time I'd been so out of it and the only thing I cared about was getting the hell out of the office lol. So when today came I was so freaked out by what would happen. Combine that with my aunt, who was in a bitchy mood the entire day as it was and was irritated as she was sitting with me because my appointment card said 3:00 and they didn't call me back until 3:15-3:20 and I was a wreck. I couldn't even enjoy myself when I saw Dana, one of the hygenists behind the front desk trying to get rid of her hiccups (I've always had this odd hiccup fetish lol) =[.
Thankfully, the appointment was not so hairy. Dino was actually overjoyed by how much progress was made with my teeth and liked the way that they were moving and looking, which is always a plus because if he's happy then the appointment goes well. I finally, finally, finally got a bracket on that one trouble tooth, the first one after the front tooth on the left (your right) side, the one with the huge gap that started the 4/18/08 disaster and I'm overjoyed right now because it's extremely tight and sore and that's exactly what needs to happen for it to move; I'm hoping to see some progress with it in the coming days. I also got my ligs (short for ligatures and another word for O-Bands, the rubber bands that they put around your brackets and what makes the braces colorful) changed from purple to baby blue (still no clear but I'm more comfortable with the whole color-changing thing now, who cares at this point =]) because that and pink are the two light colors that make the braces less noticeable. Looking at them in the mirror on the way home, I'm not sure if that can be held true (I found this out online) because to me they look like a bright neon blue instead of baby blue but I'm sure the brightness will fade overtime after brushing my teeth a few times. I also got a new package of rubber bands because I'm beginning to run out in my other package. No wire changes as of yet (Dino bonded my new bracket on by pushing it up through the wire and gluing it on) but I think that will happen at my next appointment, if what I heard Dino tell his assistant Brittany right; that I would get a looser (yay!) wire on my bottom and possibly the top too. Also going to get some discing done on my bottom teeth, something that I did with Invisalign to get the plastic tray to fit. It's not the most pleasant process in the world but it's not deadly and it doesn't require Novocaine or anything =].
My next appointment is three weeks from Wednesday; I go the day after my 20th birthday (they offered me an appointment for the day of since it falls on a Tuesday this year but I opted out; who wants to go to the dentist on their birthday? Yuck) at 3:30 in the afternoon so now they'll be no more time constraints, another plus! =].
So that's it for now! I'll write back next Tuesday with yet another exciting entry! =]
Now, onto the appointment. The beginning was quite hairy because I really didn't know what we would be doing. He'd kind of explained it to me after I got my braces put on but by that time I'd been so out of it and the only thing I cared about was getting the hell out of the office lol. So when today came I was so freaked out by what would happen. Combine that with my aunt, who was in a bitchy mood the entire day as it was and was irritated as she was sitting with me because my appointment card said 3:00 and they didn't call me back until 3:15-3:20 and I was a wreck. I couldn't even enjoy myself when I saw Dana, one of the hygenists behind the front desk trying to get rid of her hiccups (I've always had this odd hiccup fetish lol) =[.
Thankfully, the appointment was not so hairy. Dino was actually overjoyed by how much progress was made with my teeth and liked the way that they were moving and looking, which is always a plus because if he's happy then the appointment goes well. I finally, finally, finally got a bracket on that one trouble tooth, the first one after the front tooth on the left (your right) side, the one with the huge gap that started the 4/18/08 disaster and I'm overjoyed right now because it's extremely tight and sore and that's exactly what needs to happen for it to move; I'm hoping to see some progress with it in the coming days. I also got my ligs (short for ligatures and another word for O-Bands, the rubber bands that they put around your brackets and what makes the braces colorful) changed from purple to baby blue (still no clear but I'm more comfortable with the whole color-changing thing now, who cares at this point =]) because that and pink are the two light colors that make the braces less noticeable. Looking at them in the mirror on the way home, I'm not sure if that can be held true (I found this out online) because to me they look like a bright neon blue instead of baby blue but I'm sure the brightness will fade overtime after brushing my teeth a few times. I also got a new package of rubber bands because I'm beginning to run out in my other package. No wire changes as of yet (Dino bonded my new bracket on by pushing it up through the wire and gluing it on) but I think that will happen at my next appointment, if what I heard Dino tell his assistant Brittany right; that I would get a looser (yay!) wire on my bottom and possibly the top too. Also going to get some discing done on my bottom teeth, something that I did with Invisalign to get the plastic tray to fit. It's not the most pleasant process in the world but it's not deadly and it doesn't require Novocaine or anything =].
My next appointment is three weeks from Wednesday; I go the day after my 20th birthday (they offered me an appointment for the day of since it falls on a Tuesday this year but I opted out; who wants to go to the dentist on their birthday? Yuck) at 3:30 in the afternoon so now they'll be no more time constraints, another plus! =].
So that's it for now! I'll write back next Tuesday with yet another exciting entry! =]
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Braces, Week 2: July 7th, 2009
It's been two weeks since my braces were put on and I don't really have anything new to report for this week; things have been going good in my braces world. Aside from the annoyance of having to spend countless time in the bathroom picking food out of my wires, my mouth in general has been feeling good and I hardly notice that I have braces on for most of the time. This year was the first 4th of July that I opted out of eating potato chips (which is fine because I only eat 2-3 chips anyway lol) and dip, but on Sunday, my mom and I went to Applebee's and we got that Mi Queso dip (best shit ever!) and I was able to eat that with tortilla chips with no problem. A little bit slower than normal, but overall not too bad. It helped that their chips are not thick and crunchy like the ones at real Mexican restaurants (which, sadly, are chips that I'll probably need to stay away from for awhile) =].
Next week, I'm going back for another appointment so my weekly entry will probably be longer than this. I'm not really sure what the appointment will be like; I heard something when I was getting my braces put on that they would need to put on a couple of more brackets but idk if that's what they're doing or if they're checking alignment or what, we'll have to see.
Until next week! =]
Next week, I'm going back for another appointment so my weekly entry will probably be longer than this. I'm not really sure what the appointment will be like; I heard something when I was getting my braces put on that they would need to put on a couple of more brackets but idk if that's what they're doing or if they're checking alignment or what, we'll have to see.
Until next week! =]
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