It was adjustment time today:
The usual chat before treatment: I wanted to talk about how far we should push this. After having a few weeks with bad anxiety for the treatment ahead of me I was unsure if I could move to phase two of the treatment (fixing my bite), it’s when the really scary part starts (we can't just work with arch wires). I’m very happy with how my upper teeth are; they are straight and look wonderful. The canine is down, my teeth are in line. Phase one is done and I love my teeth!
Eric would do whatever I wanted to do. If I loved my teeth now and would not regret debonding my upper teeth he was happy with that (he said I could always get braces later if I wanted to fix my crossbite, overjet etc, which is true). If I just wanted to do phase one that was ok for him. I could get a debonding for my upper teeth and keep my lowers braced because they still needs some work.
The treatment: When it was time to do some treatment he asked if we should move to a rectangular wire on my lowers.
Me: “We just changed it to .014 wire last time. I’m not jumping from .014 to rectangular wire”
Eric “Are you sure you’re on a .014 wire? It looks like a .018 wire”
Me: “Yes, we went from .013 to .014 last time”
Eric: “should we try the .018 wire today then?”
“Not sure. Can’t we wait a little longer? I like this .014 wire. When I got it I hardly felt any soreness”
“What if we try to change it to the .018 wire and if you get panic or feel too much pressure then we will switch back to .014 wire?”
I agreed to this and Eric found the .018 wire. Took out my old one and then looked at me with a smile.
Eric: “This wire looks like a .018 wire. Look” he put the .018 arch wire with the arch wire I just had and they were the same!
“Did I just have the .018 wire without even knowing it?!”
And Eric started to laugh, he almost fell from his chair “You had the .018 wire without knowing it?” He could not stop laughing and I started to laugh a bit myself. “How funny is that? You did not know you had the .018 wire”
I’m sure this made his day!
It was a bit funny, I was so sure it was the .014 wire because that was the one we agreed on. Either he took the wrong wire last time or he put the .018 wire on without telling me.
He put on a new .018 wire, we did not jump to a rectangular wire (and this was all that we did today
).
The usual talk after treatment: Eric might consider hire me to work for him 2 days a week (I work 2-3 days a week on my current job so this will be perfect) because he needs a new assistant. I asked him if he was crazy, if he had seen me at these appointments, I’m all crazy with anxiety. He laughed and said he did not look at the anxiety because this was just towards treatments. I think he is crazy…
So next Friday I need to come back to reposition a bracket on one of my front teeth, this tooth is the only tooth that is still a little bit crooked and we will make my uppers ready for debonding on Friday. And then my uppers will be off after Christmas! Yahoo!
I got the teeth I have been dreaming for
It will be so much more fun eating. Those tacos of yours sound really good!!!
(but I'm sure they won't 
