Turrrtlelove's Updates...pics...2006.12.12
Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:14 pm
Yay!!! I got them!!! My appt. was at 9am this morning. I was a little late becuase of traffic...hehe. But it all worked out. I signed in payed my money and went to go sit down and like 2 seconds later they called me back and lucky me got the chair rigth next to the entrance!!!...I was like NOOOOO!!!...(in my head of course). I was so nervous becuase EVERYONE was walking by like staring at the first timer...lol
I has a friend with me so I was laughing and joking to kind of ease my nerves a little bit. The assistant was really nice she explained things while she was doing it. I'm sure yall know the process so I won't bore you with that...lol.
All my bands went on easily and they hurt a little while she was seating them and taking them off and stuff. Other than that it was fine. When she took the spacers off...man...I smelled the food that had gotten caught up in there...bleh!!!
When she was gluing the bands on the glue was icky and so was the etchant!!!! OHhhhhh man it tasted like a million lemons...so totally sour...LOL. It didn't take long at all to get all the brackets on at all. The assistant put them all on and the the orthodontist came by a tweaked things a little bit, told the assistant to use .016 Ni-Ti wires and to use tie-backs with a figure-8 configuration on certain teeth. I got this on the upper and lower and it goes from the molar band to my incisors. And on top of that she bent the end of the archwires...oh more pressure...so I think I'm strapped in here pretty tight...!!!...LOL
The two teeth that I knew would be iffy started aching slightly immediately after she put the tie-backs and ligatures on. I choose pink by the way...I chikined out on the green...LOL I thought it was funny when another assistant offered to help hold my lips back while she put the tiebacks on...LOL...it may not seem funny now that I think about it but at the time I got tickled...hehe She had the clear braces on her teeth.
While the ligatures where being put on she let me watch. I had no idea of just how small those things were....very interesting. When she put the wires on I felt the pressure immediately as well. I can't imagine the stronger ones to come...oh boy!!!...hehe
Uhm...I don't really know what else to write, I'm like in shock and overwhelmed and my mind isn't quite clear for some reason...it took me like 2 hours to write this...LOL...I think I'm delirous or something...I don't know...sheesh...all this excitement...
Well anywho...here are some pics...they arent very good tho...I'm so tired so I gave up trying...I'm sure yall will ask plenty of questions in case I left out something. Feel free to ask away!!!
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I has a friend with me so I was laughing and joking to kind of ease my nerves a little bit. The assistant was really nice she explained things while she was doing it. I'm sure yall know the process so I won't bore you with that...lol.
All my bands went on easily and they hurt a little while she was seating them and taking them off and stuff. Other than that it was fine. When she took the spacers off...man...I smelled the food that had gotten caught up in there...bleh!!!
When she was gluing the bands on the glue was icky and so was the etchant!!!! OHhhhhh man it tasted like a million lemons...so totally sour...LOL. It didn't take long at all to get all the brackets on at all. The assistant put them all on and the the orthodontist came by a tweaked things a little bit, told the assistant to use .016 Ni-Ti wires and to use tie-backs with a figure-8 configuration on certain teeth. I got this on the upper and lower and it goes from the molar band to my incisors. And on top of that she bent the end of the archwires...oh more pressure...so I think I'm strapped in here pretty tight...!!!...LOL
The two teeth that I knew would be iffy started aching slightly immediately after she put the tie-backs and ligatures on. I choose pink by the way...I chikined out on the green...LOL I thought it was funny when another assistant offered to help hold my lips back while she put the tiebacks on...LOL...it may not seem funny now that I think about it but at the time I got tickled...hehe She had the clear braces on her teeth.
While the ligatures where being put on she let me watch. I had no idea of just how small those things were....very interesting. When she put the wires on I felt the pressure immediately as well. I can't imagine the stronger ones to come...oh boy!!!...hehe
Uhm...I don't really know what else to write, I'm like in shock and overwhelmed and my mind isn't quite clear for some reason...it took me like 2 hours to write this...LOL...I think I'm delirous or something...I don't know...sheesh...all this excitement...
Well anywho...here are some pics...they arent very good tho...I'm so tired so I gave up trying...I'm sure yall will ask plenty of questions in case I left out something. Feel free to ask away!!!
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Congratulations:) Keep posting now!!!