Metal Mouth Message Board

Day before:




Day One:





Two Weeks in:



I'm not sure of the name of the brackets i have, but i go to a really "high profile" orthodontist, the best one in town, so they have to be good.
Hurts a little, just kinda feels like someone is pushing on my teeth. Not a real pain, just irritating. The last bracket on the top hurts my cheek, it has the clamp on it, with a lil' piece of wire coming out the end. Not horrible getting them on, just a little tedious, feeling like a dum dum with my mouth propped open with some giant plastic thing holding my cheeks back. My orthodontist is FANTASTIC! They gave me a really neat electronic oral B toothbrush as a gift woot!
Day one going by, we'll see how it feels later this week.
I can eat too, it's not to bad, feels weird though.

Update of Day 1:
Its nighttime now, and they hurt a little, I can't really feel when i'm biting into stuff, I guess they are just numb from the pressure. But it sure is weird, and I sure did eat me an oatmeal cookie

Wax works wonders

They look great, Jen!! Congrats!!

Yep, eating feels weird but will get better. Your teeth will probably feel more tender on day 2 and 3 and then it just gets better from there on in. Great pics.

Thanks for posting pics, that's kind of what I look like as well ..... eating is weird I know. I guess I have to wait for day 2 as well and see how it goes.

WOW

Looks great.... cant wait to follow your transformation girl

Remember wax is your best friend

Hooray!!! Another beautiful smile in the works. I'm so jealous of your goodies bag. All I got was a gimmie T-shirt.

LOL, yeah they gave me some wax, the toothbrush, a flosser threader, some weird tiny brush to brush the wires, some coupons for some fantastic expensive toothpaste, and some helpful hints, the toothbrush ROCKS, it's friggin fantastic, I recommend an oral B electo toothbrush with braces, it cuts out the opportunity for you to hurt your teeth while brushing, all you do is hold it on each bracket/tooth for 2 seconds and poof your done, it has a timer and EVERYTHING, so I know when my 2 minutes is over for brushing
though, i've found with braces, the 2 minutes turns into 10 really fast,

right now i'm suckin on some lil cadberry mini eggs they are pretty fantastic mood enhancers

OfficerJen wrote:
right now i'm suckin on some lil cadberry mini eggs they are pretty fantastic mood enhancers

Jen,

I do the same thing!!! Those are my favorite and I always stock up after Easter! CVS has them on sale for .99 cents a bag.

I had my adjustment yesterday and can barely chew, but I need something in my stomach to keep the motrin down...LOL! I guess it's mini egg time!

B

Looks good!