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Every morning when I wake up, the inside of my lips and cheeks are like glued to the braces. I almost have to force them apart (and since I do this when I'm not even fully awake I have to look like a complete idiot). It happens even if I drink lots of water. Why is this happening? Am I not drinking enough water or is it because of something else? It's really annoying and quite uncomfortable as well. It didn't happen in the first 5 months, just started out of nowhere!
You're not the only one. It's just your cheeks being "suctioned" to the braces. I don't think drinking water does much.
Braced: April 07, 2017 Debraced: February 08, 2019 Sentence: 18-24 months Actual time in braces: 22 months and 1 day Reason: Straighten teeth, correct crossbite and edge-to-edge bite
Certainly not the only one! Happens to me all the time. I wake up in the middle of the night with everything stuck together. I have to kind of peel my cheeks off the brackets by opening my mouth wide but very slowly while shifting things from side to side to get it all unstuck.
One of the things I definitely won't miss when these babies come off!
Beckett wrote:Certainly not the only one! Happens to me all the time. I wake up in the middle of the night with everything stuck together. I have to kind of peel my cheeks off the brackets by opening my mouth wide but very slowly while shifting things from side to side to get it all unstuck.
One of the things I definitely won't miss when these babies come off!
Same. I tend to sleep on my stomach, so I wake up most mornings with my face smashed into the pillow and start off the day by puffing out my cheeks to unplaster the brackets and elastic embedded in that side of my face.
I remember one time stumbling my way to the bathroom and looking in the mirror to see an exceptional example of pillow face. So many creases it looked like I was an extra in a slasher movie. "Nice work," I thought. Then I wondered if the same kind of pillow face crease effect happened on the inside as well, forming a neat row of bracket impressions along the inside of your cheek each morning. It turns out the answer is.....drum roll....no. At least for me. I know. Kind of anticlimactic, right?
I had to puff my cheeks out every morning, like a puffer fish, to dislodge my inner cheeks from my brackets. I don't have that problem with my retainer!
SinkFullOfDinner wrote:Same. I tend to sleep on my stomach, so I wake up most mornings with my face smashed into the pillow and start off the day by puffing out my cheeks to unplaster the brackets and elastic embedded in that side of my face.
I remember one time stumbling my way to the bathroom and looking in the mirror to see an exceptional example of pillow face. So many creases it looked like I was an extra in a slasher movie. "Nice work," I thought. Then I wondered if the same kind of pillow face crease effect happened on the inside as well, forming a neat row of bracket impressions along the inside of your cheek each morning. It turns out the answer is.....drum roll....no. At least for me. I know. Kind of anticlimactic, right?
Definitely anticlimatic! Good to know I'm not alone in this though.
lambchop wrote:I had to puff my cheeks out every morning, like a puffer fish, to dislodge my inner cheeks from my brackets. I don't have that problem with my retainer!
Haha, I'll try the puffer fish technique tomorrow.
lambchop wrote:I had to puff my cheeks out every morning, like a puffer fish, to dislodge my inner cheeks from my brackets. I don't have that problem with my retainer!
I had the same problem while in braces. I used to puff my cheeks too or putting a little chewing-gum in the parts of the braces which hurt too much.
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