Sat back at home now, its been a few hours since the upper linguals were put in..... for anyone interested here's an account of the appointment. I'll keep it as short as possible. If anyone wants any more info then please don't hesitate to ask!
9:55 Went into "the chair"....... turns out this is really comfy and my lack of sleep meant I almost fell asleep before we started!
First, my ortho cleaned the teeth with "aluminium oxide" and then rinsed. This I guess is to give the teeth a super ultra clean! This was fine.
Then they put a blue gel on each tooth, and left it there for about a minute before washing it off whilst using the suction pipe thing. This is probably the worst bit........... this stuff tastes FOUL!!!! I tried to keep my tongue out of the way but it was pretty difficult.
Next she put some cement on each tooth, cured it slightly with the light, and then put 3 or 4 of the brackets in at a time. These had been held in a preformed tray, so they should sit in the right place on the tooth. The preformed tray was split into 4 sections, and so section at a time she put the whole tray on, then cured the brackets using the light, and then took the tray out, leaving the brackets!!!
Last came the back molars which were done indvidually, using the same method, but without the tray.
All of this took about 45 mins, and then they were on!! I rinsed and got a feel for them for the first time...... Uh OH!!! These felt HUGE!! However my ortho reassured me that it feels better once the wire is in, so we proceeded to do that, which took another 15mins.
And that was that...... the road has begun!! 1.5 hrs, with likely BSSO lower surgery after about 12 months.
Its now a few hours later, teeth feel fine, just a little sensitive.... Tongue is getting a battering so i've put wax on most of the brackets. Its very red, all around the edge, so hoping this doesn't get too worse. Gonna use some salt rinses and bongela after dinner tonight. Oh and the ortho gave me a covering "mould" for me to wear at night for the first couple of weeks, that things gonna be a god send!!!
Here's a before and after pic!!
Before
After
Some of the brackets seems to be very low, i.e. as far a way from the gum as possible, and it feels like i'm biting on a couple if I bite my teeth together, i'll ask about this when I go back in in 4 weeks.
Overall my first impressions are that hopefully once my tongue gets used to these things, then it should be fine. My speech isn't too bad, yes its a bit lispy, but I reckon it should be ok in a few weeks.
Hope everyone is having a good day today, i'm taking my MINI on a racetrack tomorrow, that should take my mind of things!!
Cheers
Dave
