I had my 4th adjustment (32 weeks!) on Tuesday. The only thing that happened was that my ortho repositioned the bracket on my lower left from incisor. It was actually pretty funny, she told me to use that tooth to bite down really hard on a roll of cotton. I did my best, but she wasn't impressed by my wimpy bite and kept telling me to bite harder. I'm not sure which was worse, biting down on the cotton or having the bracket yanked off! She joked that she has people bite down so that they won't scream! It wasn't that bad, but now my tooth is a bit tender. I still have the 0.018 round wires on both arches, but I was promised a rectangular wire on top in 8 weeks (an early Christmas present), and maybe also on the lowers. I'm getting pretty bored with these braces, but I'm almost a third of the way done now...
I visited my family last weekend for my Mom's birthday. I hadn't told anyone about the braces. My mom didn't say anything for the first 4 hours that I was at her house, I started to think that she might be losing her eye sight! She finally brought it up and couldn't stop saying how happy she is that I'm straightening out my teeth (and that braces make me look 10 years younger, thanks Mom!) My older sister who has the same issues as me said 'Wow, maybe I should do that!' I hope she does!
My lower teeth are less flared out now and are slowly evening out. I haven't noticed much change in my upper teeth in a while (probably because I've been in the same wire for 6 months!)
Here are some progress pics:
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Happy Halloween to all my fellow brace-faces! Watch out for those Snickers bars
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