9th Adjustment, November 3rd 2011:
As a semi-preface...
1) About a week after the last adjustment (Sept 30th) I woke up...with a button hanging loosely on the powerchain. So the button on the front of the 1st bicuspid was replaced, and it got put on a bit further 'over' on the tooth. Can kinda see from the pictures. Sorta. Not sure if it was the de-glueing/re-glueing, or just from this tooth moving so very, very much, but soon after....:
2) Started getting intermittent pain after the above, then I was in constant pain for about 2-3 weeks before this adjustment, needing to take ibuprofen every 4 hours on the dot for the last week...and when my ortho poked the *spring* I just about cried...even with having taken 3 ibuprofen barely an hour before (and it takes ~40 min to kick in--I usually do this as a preventive, sort of, but even before it was poked I was in a lot pain). Since things were so sensitive, it changed things a bit this last adjustment.
The pain, *of course*, more or less stopped 12 hours later. Grr. I just hope it stays that way for another 4.5 weeks, and it's 'happy' that day!
- Same wires. Again.
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Green ligs + 3-long bit of powerchain (left 1st bicuspid to 1st molar) to rotate the 1st bicuspid, finally! Next time the bracket gets repositioned.
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Red (short strength/length) powerchain on top from canine over...still have the bit of grey (medium strength/length--apparently these are weaker or they have more space between the loops, not stronger like thought) from previous adjustment (it was not changed out).
Yes, I got Christmas colours, even though they'll be off before then. I didn't last year, and I figured I should/would at some point...
