within some weeks, my new treatment should start. I have now been sans
braces for about 8,5 months. I realize there are many new members here
who can't know my orthodontic history.
Therefor some background here :
Ortho 1 worked on my teeth during 22 months. She lined up everything but
completely ruined my bite. I got a bad open bite and a big overjet. My bite
was a real disaster. I left and went to ortho 2. He tried for about 8 months
to correct the overjet and open bite. He finally admitted it wasn't working
at all. So I went to see a third ortho. I posted since the beginning of this all
here in this forum. A lot is still here I think. It makes of me one of the oldest
still present members of ArchWired !
Ortho 3 took off my braces in November 2006. Since then, I've been waiting
to start a new treatment. During that time, I only had an upper Hawley. But
it did not exactly help very much. My teeth look now so bad. Never been
worse. I am almost ashamed to show these pics. This is not really how teeth
should look after 30 months of braces, a gigantic amount of elastics and also
a headgear. It seems vertically I had a total relapse so once again I now have
a very open bite. Also about all alignment is gone. When I bite down, I only
have contact between the left first molars. So, this is not back to square one,
this is back to square -100 :
In both pics, I completely and utterly bite down.
Now, August 8th, they will install again braces. Only on my upper teeth first.
Then, after some weeks I'll have a surgery where they'll insert bone anchors
in the zygoma. They'll use these to pull all my upper teeth backwards and to
intrude all my upper back teeth. This to correct my class 2 bite and to close
my bite. They told me it will be a very difficult treatment. So, this explains
why I feel restless these days ...
Wishing you the best of luck!!!
