Kim's First Steps at 22-BRACES OFF!

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#16 Post by **belmikry** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 1:43 pm

so today I did it- I was eating breakfast [eggs, bacon and toast! yum!] and I was doing alright until half way through I noticed something funny about my bite- I stopped, moved my tongue around and my left side felt hollow! which of course, startles one...

guess what I did, I popped my left side blue cement lifter off at some point- and I must have ate it!

o_o...

and to make it worse, it's saturday morning- meaning that I have to wait until monday to make an appointment to get it refilled >_>....

..oh wells, at least it isn't the right side! that's the side where the impacted incisor ont he top is, so at least it still has room to move- I just hope my bite doesn't go off because of it

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Here's some pictures:

as you can see, I only have one now

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But for good news- I didn't notice how much my top right side has moved back!! look at the room its making for the incisor- like double the size! yippie!

the teeth are aligning much better as well I noticed! :O

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another view, see my canine's movement? hopefully by the end of this month my incisor will stop by and say hello!!! o_0 ...

#17 Post by **Leslie022** » Sat Feb 11, 2006 8:13 pm

Yeah, when mine came out, I ate it too. Tasted so good with my hashbrowns that I didn't even notice! lol

Looks like some good movement!

#18 Post by **jennielee81** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 3:10 pm

I'm so excited for you!!!! I know how you feel.

I still get giddy and silly when I realize just how much my teeth have changed. You deserve your new "bad habit"

Love those Damons! That wire just wants to be straight and your teeth have no choice in the matter!!

Good for you and don't be embarassed about the frequent updates; we enjoy them!!! and your teeth will soon be straight and progress will slow down and your life will return to (what ever) normal (is).

#19 Post by **ssfw** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 9:37 pm

Hi Kim,

Congratulations on getting your braces. Isn't it great that you already see some ortho. change in such a short time. I think this is one of the things that makes ortho treatment exciting. I'm glad you adjusted to the braces so quickly - your braces look great and you have a wonderful smile which in no time will even look better than wonderful.

I agree with you about the photos taken by the orthodontists' office. Although my teeth are pretty well aligned, my cross bite and overjet show up so well in the photos. When I see these photos on the computer screen at the ortho's office, I think to myself that I'm glad I decided to proceed with ortho treatment.

Keep us posted.

ssfw

#20 Post by **hannah164** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 9:57 pm

Congratulations on your quick progress!

Your smile is lookin' better already!

Funny about your cement coming off!

Good luck and Keep us posted!

-Hannah

Top braces: 4/28/04
Bottom braces: 11/16/05
Last Adjustment was 2/1/06 where they bonded a bracket to my cuspid, which was impacted!!!! OUCH!

#21 Post by **Flora2006** » Sun Feb 12, 2006 10:59 pm

Your tooth is moving fast!! I wish mine was as well. I will post some pics soon enough, I just need to figure out how to do it and how to take better pics.

#22 Post by **belmikry** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 6:17 am

Flora2006 wrote:Your tooth is moving fast!! I wish mine was as well. I will post some pics soon enough, I just need to figure out how to do it and how to take better pics.

if you need help, let me know!

all you need is a digital camera, put it on flash and macro [the flower icon button] and snap away- nice thing about digitials is that lovely delete button until you get the pictures just right!

to upload them, use photobucket or imageshack- they are free image hsoting servers

#23 Post by **Flora2006** » Mon Feb 13, 2006 7:56 pm

belmikry - I just opened my topic thing with pictures

Thanks for the help

#24 Post by **belmikry** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 8:06 pm

Hey guys- thought I would mention I finally got my cement lifter fixed on tuesday- although the lady who did it, originally put too much on one tooth so my bite was misaligined, and I asked her to put some more on the right side, since it had been 3 days since the left fell out so I had ground the right to a flat pancake o_o...

after she filled both, she spend what seemed to be 30 minutes trying to lower the right [put too much again

] now she's very nice so I just waited patiently while she tried to file it down with a small filer, but it was taking forever o_o...

..she eventually called the other assistant over to help her, the thing about the other assistant- I think she is the head assistant, but every time i've seen her, she's always in a hurry [even when no one is in the office] and she took out a filer and just attacked my lifter with lots of force, and asking me after three files if it was better, and of course it wasn't, and she was sounding quite irrate as she kept looking at her watch

you know what? I know how it can be at work sometimes when your behind in whatever [even though no patients were there, i believe it was lunch time since she kept reorting about how hungry she was] but I think when you have a patient in with a problem, and they don't want their aliginment to go off, prolonging the treatment, you should be patient until you are done the job- was it my fault the lifter fell out? no- and surely i wasn't blaming the nice lady who filled them in on my request, and she I may add was apologizing for adding too much cement to the head assistant, who just kept sighing... but really... I already felt uncomfortable having to come in on short notice for this problem, isn't it unprofessional to be sighing and using more force than needed, basically making me feel unwanted?

anyone else have something like this happen? I even noticed when I got my braces on, the last portion the girls seemed more interested in making sandwiches in the back for lunch then my treatment.

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#25 Post by **Leslie022** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 9:57 pm

With the amount of money we are having to pay them, you'd think they would be more than happy to see us when an emergency popped up. Luckily, my orthos office is more than happy to see me on short notice. The lady that fixed my cement thing last time actually apologized for me having to come back so often. The little things can either make you feel great or really hurt your feelings.

#26 Post by **Brandyleigh35** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:19 pm

Hey Kim,
I agree with the others....that is so not right! I would've left. I would've got up and said clearly I can see that this is not a good time for you ladies, so lets just reschedule this appt for a time that is. I bet that would've changed their tune. I'm much older than you though, and definitely at a point in my life where I'm not afraid of offending someone if they are not doing their job properly.

At your age I wouldn't have had the guts to say anything, plus I think I would've just been so shocked I wouldn't have even known what to say.

I think I would say something to my ortho though, especially since this is the second time this has happened. Also...maybe try and schedule your appts in the morning, when they are not so cranky?

Brandy

#27 Post by **belmikry** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:24 am

alright- thought I would fill you in on some updates- currently, have had some minor pain in my canine and incisor [moving? please!?

] and my back molars- I'm starting to worry that I may be getting a cavity underneath my cement filler, gosh i hope not 0_0...

Yesterday- looking straighter!

First day in braces- no more rollercoaster! [much

ignore the incisor and canine

]

top- see my incisor just inching to get in there? come on tooth! you can do it!

feb 3rd- alot of movement of my right side huh?

my teeth have slowed down in comparison to my first week, but that's normal i suspect- but my first adjustment is on march 10th- here's hoping for more progress then!

#28 Post by **belmikry** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:28 am

brandy: i agree- but it's hard to get up with that appliance in your moth ~_~...

I always have a tendancey of thinking i'm overreacting to situations like that, although I know i'm probably not- I hate confrontation in anything, so I usually let it slide. The worst part is the first day I got braces, my ortho AND these girls were making sandwiches in the back while the appliances were going in- which made me very nervous... so I don't know if she'd be that convinced about my complaints :/...

I think i'll see how it goes on my first adjusment- if I notice the ortho as well as the girls, i'll stop them right there and tell them what's on my mind- it's nice to know I may be moving for school [transfering] so most likely I won't be needing their attitude much longer- it sucks though, cause i like the ortho- [sigh]...

#29 Post by **Flora2006** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 1:59 pm

Great pictures! Your teeth are looking straighter.

#30 Post by **belmikry** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:14 pm

thanks flora2006!

here's hoping that incisor justs squeezes its way through- I had a dream that it just popped in front over night >_<