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Posted: **Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:49 am**

Dellyfish wrote:These spaces look so huge! My teeth were so tight that it was difficult to floss, and now I'm thinking "how can I possibly need all this space?"

I had mine done today. I am having this same thought!

Posted: **Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:05 am**

Just to give you some reassurance that spaces can close. I just put up a blog post with 4 extractions completed. Have a look :).

http://markhamortho.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... -with.html

Posted: **Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:36 pm**

I took pics because I am obsessed with the holes. So weird! Sorry if this is gross! I think it's cool.

It's been a week and a half.... should I still be feeling "tight" where I had one of the impacted wisdom teeth out? I can open my mouth all the way, but it hurts ever-so-slightly and I feel a tightness... and also a numbness in the surrounding area. Actually, the areas around all of my extraction sites feel numb. I guess it doesn't really matter, but will the feeling come back?

Posted: **Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:12 pm**

I got 6 more brackets on yesterday! I have real braces, now. They're still not connected back. I have no idea why. I don't ask a lot of questions.

Maybe I'm being paranoid about this "sunken face syndrome" that seems to be popular here on this board (yet I can never find a lot of conclusive stuff anywhere else, either online or from my dentist AND ortho.....), but I swear my cheeks do look thinner, 3 weeks post-extraction. Honestly... I kind of like it. I have a lot of weight to lose, so maybe we'll see how I look then. Right now, I just look like a dropped a few pounds. I don't know if it's my worst fears confirmed, or just me moving in a better direction.

I have not been laying off the coffee and tomato soup. My ligs will get stained to some degree either way, so I just go for it. But, they took off my ligs yesterday.... yellow-brown. REALLY discolored. UGH. I might re-think this Starbucks thing.

PICS! Not a ton of change, but for some reason, this is the first time I have looked into the mirror and been pleased by my teeth. Maybe it's the clean ligs, I don't know.

3 MONTHS AGO:

TODAY:

Posted: **Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:14 pm**

Crap. That was supposed to go under my story. Whyyy can't I just delete? I'll just x-post, I guess.

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I just had my extractions done yesterday!