An assistant came in and took off my wire and coil. As she was taking it off she said that it looked like I may have enough room to start on lowering that tooth (my snaggle tooth). I said I sure hope so ;). Then the dental asst started to polish my teeth. She used a smaller brush for my top teeth since the brackets were on those. Then a bigger rubber brush for the bottoms. The Hygenist then continued with the rest of the cleaning which overall wasnt too painful. I have a few teeth that are sensitive, but they were careful around the ones I pointed out. I let the hygienist know not to do the fluoride because they were bonding my lower teeth today. So she said she will give it to my Ortho so they can put it on after that appointment. Once I was done which was about an hour later, I went back to the waiting room to wait for my Ortho appointment.
Surprisingly I was called back 30 minutes early which was great! The assistant asked me what color bands I wanted which I chose a pale pink. The Ortho came in to take a look. She said that it looked like I have enough room to put the wire on my tooth and start bringing it down. I was soooo ecstatic inside. I cannot wait until this tooth is aligned with the rest and is no longer sticking out! I asked about the tooth she had mentioned about getting extracted. She said they are going to go ahead and hold off on that and see how well my teeth do and hopefully we wont have to extract it. But there is still a chance later I might. She said that they would be using a thinner flexible wire so my teeth will be moving around a lot while my tooth is coming down. She said during this period some teeth may move forward and look off but it is normal. She also said that my tooth will be pretty sore. Which its now been 3 hours since I left my appointment and my front teeth are starting to feel the tenderness. She also said that we can still put the bottom braces on which I was very happy about as well. The assistant put a mouth expander in my mouth to help keep my lips away from my teeth. She then blew air on my teeth to dry them. She then put a conditioner on my lower teeth and started the gluing and placing of the brackets. My Ortho then came in to take a look and make any adjustments needed for the bracket placements. Once she was done the assistant put a light on each tooth to set the glue and brackets. Once she was done she put the wire on my lower teeth. They didn't put it on my back molar because they are going to wait until my teeth start straightening out. She also left the wire off one of my front lower teeth because it was too far back. My Ortho said that later they would put a coil on it to widen the space and bring that tooth forward. After she put the bottom wire on she started with the top. They did figure eights on both sides of my back teeth. I felt the usual slight discomfort pressure while the wire and elastics were put on but not too bad. My Ortho came back in to see how everything looked. She decided to put a wire tie on to make sure the wire stayed on my tooth that has turned in. She also had me make sure none of the wires were poking and fixed one that was. The assistant then put the fluoride on my teeth and my appointment was done, leaving at 2:00pm. Wooo what a day! But it's going to be worth it! :)
I scheduled my next appointment which is in 6 weeks. Once I got home I realized that one of my wires on my bottom braces is now poking me. I put wax on it, which helped. If it doesn't get better then I will go next Tues,. when they are at my dental office and have them clip it. Below are the progress photos.
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| Bottom Braces Day 1 |
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