A nonevent ...
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2006 10:01 am
Hi all,
I had once more an adjustment. My braces now look like this :
![Image](http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/pics_of_clo/1007066.jpg)
Quite impressive, no ? I am ready to be casted for the next Terminator
movie I think. Where a humanoid can terminate the terminator with his
teeth ... If only I could terminate this pain I feel right now.
Argggg, again all those elastics. Still have those class 2 elastics running
from my canines down to my lower molars. But added are bite closing
elastics in front. And deep down there, a small crossbite elastic on my
second molars on my left side.
But more importantly, my ortho is now trying to start the second step in
retracting all my uppers. He put a piece of powerchain from my first
upper premolars to the first molars :
![Image](http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/pics_of_clo/1007065.jpg)
By doing so, he is trying to retract now also my premolars ...
But am I not missing something here ? Last time he said he would do all
measurements once more and now there would be the decision to have
surgery to get bone anchors (mini implants) as things were not looking
good at all. Well, they still don't. In fact my bite is opening even more
as we spreak. So, this morning, I was quite nervous when driving to my
ortho. Once there, I got this 'uhmmmmm ... bite down ... open ... bite
down ... uhmmmm ... open ... bite down'. Ok, retraction of premolars
and closing the bite ... again. I was thinking, are we witnissing the
beginning of Alzheimer's disease here. This was decision day ! And all
that happened was elastics once more here and there. I just don't get it
anymore. Last time he was saying that this surgery was the only option
left and I was scared. Now I kinda accepted this and he does not mention
it anymore ... I tried to get things on track again by asking some things.
He now will do this. He will retract all uppers, now the premolars, later
on my social 6. Then he will see if this remains stable. If not, then he
will place these bone anchors and retract more.
So, he kinda took an U-turn concerning this surgery. Someone must have
told him something. Or he must have read or seen something. Anyway,
right now, I just don't know what to feel. Happy that this surgery may be
avoidable after all ? Or unhappy because it seemed he would now start
to take things more seriously and all I get is playing with elastics for some
more ...
I had once more an adjustment. My braces now look like this :
![Image](http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/pics_of_clo/1007066.jpg)
Quite impressive, no ? I am ready to be casted for the next Terminator
movie I think. Where a humanoid can terminate the terminator with his
teeth ... If only I could terminate this pain I feel right now.
Argggg, again all those elastics. Still have those class 2 elastics running
from my canines down to my lower molars. But added are bite closing
elastics in front. And deep down there, a small crossbite elastic on my
second molars on my left side.
But more importantly, my ortho is now trying to start the second step in
retracting all my uppers. He put a piece of powerchain from my first
upper premolars to the first molars :
![Image](http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y196/pics_of_clo/1007065.jpg)
By doing so, he is trying to retract now also my premolars ...
But am I not missing something here ? Last time he said he would do all
measurements once more and now there would be the decision to have
surgery to get bone anchors (mini implants) as things were not looking
good at all. Well, they still don't. In fact my bite is opening even more
as we spreak. So, this morning, I was quite nervous when driving to my
ortho. Once there, I got this 'uhmmmmm ... bite down ... open ... bite
down ... uhmmmm ... open ... bite down'. Ok, retraction of premolars
and closing the bite ... again. I was thinking, are we witnissing the
beginning of Alzheimer's disease here. This was decision day ! And all
that happened was elastics once more here and there. I just don't get it
anymore. Last time he was saying that this surgery was the only option
left and I was scared. Now I kinda accepted this and he does not mention
it anymore ... I tried to get things on track again by asking some things.
He now will do this. He will retract all uppers, now the premolars, later
on my social 6. Then he will see if this remains stable. If not, then he
will place these bone anchors and retract more.
So, he kinda took an U-turn concerning this surgery. Someone must have
told him something. Or he must have read or seen something. Anyway,
right now, I just don't know what to feel. Happy that this surgery may be
avoidable after all ? Or unhappy because it seemed he would now start
to take things more seriously and all I get is playing with elastics for some
more ...