Well I had my 4th adjustment today and it was very eventful. I now have a brand spanken new rectangular (or square
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) archwire on top. And boy can I already feel the pressure. But I am soooo excited to know that I have reached the next step for my uppers. The tooth next to my wonky canine has a lig at all four corners so I know that tooth is going to be nice and sensitive as well. I got light blue and dark blue ligs and I LOVE them. They look really pretty
This all made up for me being pretty annoyed with the office. My ortho office always calls the night before your appointment to confirm it with the time. Well I get home after a VERY long day at work and hear a message that confirms my appt for 4pm o.O My appointments are always at 5 plus my appointment card said 5 as well. I listened to it one more time to make sure I heard right and she definately said 4. Well I thought it might be a good idea to call and clarify with them and make sure she didn't schedule it wrong but since it was well past 5 it had to wait until tomorrow morning. Sooo I called them first thing this morning at 9am to check my appointment time. Here is how the conversation went:
Me: I want to confirm the time for my ortho appointment today.
Receptionist: What is your name (I give her my name) Oh yes, can you come in at 4 today? The doctor is leaving early.
Me: Ummm, well I will have to leave work an entire hour early.
Receptionist: Well if you can't make it we can reschedule your appointment.
Me: (I am getting more frustrated by the second) No I guess it's ok.
Receptionist: Well if it isn't just call back and I will reschedule your appointment.
To say the least I was very angry. Suppose I hadn't called I wouldn't have known that the doctor was leaving early and would have left work an hour early for NOTHING! Not only did they not tell me my appointment needed to be changed but they didn't even give me a 24 hour notice
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I get charged $30 dollars if I do not give a 24 hour notice to cancel my appointment so why is it okay for them not to return the same courtesy. I am a very organized and punctual person so to have a professional office be so disorganized is very frustrating. I don't understand how they think people, especially some children's parents who have to work their schedules around these appointments, can just switch things around and the drop of a hat. Anyways, its done and over and my boss had no problem with me leaving an hour earlier to go to my ortho. I am very lucky to have a boss that so easily works around my personal schedule and such. Anyways, I will finish my rant and leave it with what's done is done and the receptionist is now fully aware that really need to give more notification and actually call and change the appointment rather then just leave a message "confirming" a different time. And to also please call my cell phone in cases like this so that I can now right away and take care of any changes ASAP.
Well my camera is charging as we speak so that I can take some pictures of my new wire and post them a little later. I won't take any extensive pictures... I'll leave that for my 5th anniversary. My next adjustment is 2/9/07 (back to every 4 weeks) and I will be going into the dentist for a cleaning/checkup right around then too. That's all for now...