To give you some history, I hate my teeth, and I am ashamed of them. I am not doing this for health reasons...I am a vain girl with crooked teeth and a horrible self-esteem problem. I have not had a single friend (other than my magnificent boyfriend) for almost 2 years now b/c I cannot cope with people seeing my teeth. I am finally getting them fixed. I can't believe I'm showing them to you, but here they are:
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Now that that's done, I'm not as pathetic or weird as I sound above. No one knows about my obsession or insecurity but my bf. But I (along with my teeth) have been getting worse and worse for a while, and I've finally reached my breaking point with them. I'm in my mid-twenties by the way.
I noticed several years ago something strange in the roof of my mouth. Now, about five years later, I've got a full canine in. (That's denial for you.) My laterals have started rotating b/c of this tooth, and since I have a baby tooth where my canine should be, my entire top row of teeth has shifted about 3mm to the left to make up for the extra space:
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By the way, that tooth is much bigger than it looks and it REALLY hurts. I don't recommend letting them come in on their own.
I went to my second ortho consultation, and I couldn't be happier with this doctor. (Anyone in the Boston area- Dr. Rizkallah is the nicest greatest doctor. You feel like he's your friend and definitely like he knows what he's doing.) Things were going great: I'm going to get iBraces, and he estimated 12-14 months. Sounded good to me!
I took my xrays, and the doctor takes a look at them: "oh no, kid, what have you got there?" Well, apparently, I've got teeth...in my chin. Two of them in fact, lying horizontally between the roots of my bottom teeth. And I thought my bottom teeth were going to be the easy part!
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So, now it turns out, I'm taking a giant detour through surgery. It looks like they're both supernumery teeth so we've just got to get rid of them before we can start braces. I'd just coped with the braces idea so this is a lot to handle, but I'm just praying we can do it as fast and easily as possible. I'm pretty terrified of this new development, but I'm trying not to get too worried until I talk to the surgeon and figure out exactly what we have to do.
Well, thanks for reading- if anyone's been through similar stuff, I'd like to hear about it, and if you're about to go through this, then I hope that I can help. Since this is pretty cathartic for me, I'll try to post regularly, and provide a lot of updates. Thanks a lot!