So here I am 29 and moving home to regroup and take care of this mess in my mouth. Well my first visit to the dentist i was embarrassed to open my mouth, but the hygienist was awesome she told me she had seen much worse. Then after the xrays they went on to diagnois each tooth, all but a couple had at least a cavity, i saw that one wisdom tooth was coming at my crowding straight on. On some of my molars the decay was so bad only part of the tooth was left, yuck. My family's dentist was optimistic i guess or just really good at helping his patients feel good. He wanted me to get an ortho-consult right away, knowing i would probably need extractions including my wisdom teeth, so i would also need to find an oral surgeon.
Exciting knowing my smile could be fixed, my bones very healthy and my spirit strong. Along road ahead, but i am ready.
Flash forward a couple of months I was feeling slightly overwhelmed and financially unprepared to take on this huge leap. Then my dad recommended me going to the University Dental School for my wisdom teeth extractions to save some money. Hello best advice ever! It would be an hour and a half drive each way in the worst winter ever, but know not only did i have a dentist, an oral surgeon ect.... I had all of them and their professors as well. I after my appointment with Diagnostic's, i was off to have my worst 5 teeth extracted as well as 3 wisdom teeth, leaving the most healthy for future debate.
A week later start the fillings, a quadrant a visit, with any already extremely tender mouth ick!!! La la la la la. A long process but I also ended up with an awesome hygienist again, she kindly takes my case under her wing....
okay i want to get to the good part... so my mouth is healthy everything is finally for the first time under control. Finally an ortho consult, i decide to stick with the University because I have felt so much love with the Operative Dept. So i meet with an Orthodontics Graduate student to see if i am a good fit for the program, first good new he tells me he thinks closing the gaps on my upper arch should be no problem, and that they can move my wisdom tooth up a spot which is awesome. So then maybe at the end of treatment i may only need 3 implants
to have a hollywood smile. From just 5 months earlier thinking i should start shopping for dentures to now straight healthy teeth that are my own So i am like wow let's start my braces....and then the tears....
The ortho tells me that they do not start new patients until July, (it is January at this point). My heart was broken, broken.
I wanted to be braced before I start Cosmetology school in March, part of the reason I was cool with all of the extractions. Now it would be July.
Just out of curiosity i decided to check out a few orthodontists closer to home/school. And i found my hero, and with the price of gas and the value of my time, I am probably saving money my choosing my orthodontist closer to home.
to be continued....
i will leave you with the pictures of my pre braced teeth, to let you see the challenge he took on....
thank you for stopping by...
And yes after choosing my private practice Orthodontist I upped my b-day by 4 months 
