Insert Witty Title Here (Mauvaise gets braced at 41)

[anngie27]

Thanks for updating! I am not looking forward to elastics. I have power chains from the beginning on both sides of my molars to close my 2nd premolar extraction gaps. They are no fun at all. I know what you mean about that excrutiating pain that they say is normal. I got even shorter power chains the last time and one side gave me that feeling for the first couple of days. It still pains me, 2 weeks later, but not that stop you dead in your tracks pain.

[anngie27]

Forgot to mention that I was drinking through a straw for the first several days with that pain. I even broke down and called to make sure it was "normal".

[Mauvaise]

The worst part of elastics for me is the increased claustrophobic feeling and the fact that they make me clench so hard while I'm sleeping. When I wake up in the middle of the night or morning it feels like I need to pry my jaws apart. I was never a clencher before braces and I hope once I'm done I'll stop being one.

Oh, and the grooves they sometimes wear into the insides of my cheeks


I drink almost everything through a straw now anyway. It's just easier. But when I had the worst of the nerve pain, that didn't even help because I wasn't able to keep fluids away from it enough, even with a straw.

[Mauvaise]

Braces are off!!

I posted about it here: http://www.archwired.com/phpbb2/viewtop ... 13&t=45526