Hello Everyone,
Today officially started my journey with braces. I could hardley sleep last night as I was to excited. My appointment was at 10 this morning, but I am always an early bird (I arrive for work 1 hour early) so I was there around 930. Before the brackets went on and the spacers when in the doctor talked to me about what he was going to do and my options. I currently have two missing molars on my top arch which are right across from eachother so for my bite and everything to fit perfect at the end he gave me some choices. The
FIRST was to do NOTHING now and wait to see how treatment goes to see if everything will line up perfect like he wants (with headgear) which he said in about 90 percent of cases they will since it is my molars and he will be closing up the gaps. The
SECOND option was if I was ok will a fuller lip profile (which I am not so this one is out of my options) he could move my upper arch forward and things would line up that way and my
3rd option was with EXTRATIONS of two teeth from my lower arch where I will have the same amount of teeth on my lower and upper arch and that would guarntee everything would like up corretly as opposed to giving me a 90% outcome and having more teeth on the lower arch as opposed to the upper arch. So, as of now I will be waiting to see what happens as the treatment goes along. Now to the fun and exciting part.
After the little talk with the ortho one of his assistants set up everything to begin the progress. Before everything started they put on NETFLIX for me and asked what I wanted to see while they did everything. (It was a great method to take your mind off of everything) I chose to watch The Mighty Morphin Power Ranger. ( I am still a big kid inside) The first thing Miss D did was to clean my teeth and then then have me go rinse really well. After that came the retractions to keep my mouth open and the suction to keep it dry. Then she put some more stuff on (I forgot the name of it), but I now it tasted HORRIBLE!!
Then after that she gave my teeth a "little shower". Next she painted my teeth with the glue and called the ortho in to put on the brackets (at this point my lips are so dry and I forgot my chapstick!!). It was also during this point they gave me the cool shades to protect my eyes from the light to dry the glue.
After putting all the brackets on she had me to rinse because she was like my mouth was probably tasting like metal and she was right about that. Last but not least came the dreaded SPACERS!!! So, I have 8 in. On 3 out of the 8 the ortho had to come in to put them in because my teeth were so tight. She actually popped one of the spacers trying to get it in. (OUCH) They were like we do not have to worry about your spacers coming out before next Thurs.
At the moment I am not in any pain. Maybe it is because I took an 800mg Ibprofen before leaving home, but she asked me if I felt throbbing and I was like no so maybe that will come later on today. Right now my mouth feels really full. The brackets are rubbing so I will probably have some sort of sore in the morning. I just love the goodie bag they gave me. It is literally a nice bag you can take around (I will post pics later) that came with a T-Shirt, 2 things of wax, a tooth brush, thread flossers, floss, tooth paste, and the little proxy brushes and coupons for more proxy brushes!! It also came with a little pouch in which I can carry to work to keep things in and they gave me my favorite color PURPLE for the pouch. As of now, I have not looked at myself in the mirror to see how I look. I will do that tonight after I come back home from teach a CPR class. I will also post pics later on tonight so you guys can see everything. For now that is all and you can check back later for pics and maybe me ranting about pain from these spacers!! LOL
Hooray!!!
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