The First fitting appointment

And here I am, post first fitting....

Actually it isn't too bad, not that I would want to have it done every week, but completely not as bad as I had wound myself up to think it would be.  However I am writing this over lunch, that is consisting of soup!

So, lets start from the beginning.  Arrived at the dentist too early, they weren't even open, so had to wander around in the snow and try not to get myself in a tissy about it.  As I had looked on You Tube and see what other people have had done, I was actually feeling OK with the procedure.

On meeting the dentist, he told us it would take about half an hour to complete, but he was only going to fit the top bracket/brace on this appointment.  I asked if I needed any teeth out, surprisingly he said no, he is going to work with what I have, so a little more relaxed now I took up my seat in the comfy chair.

After what can only be described as a device to make me look like a blowfish, a rubber 'O' that protects the lips and cheeks, was inserted into my mouth (and this was on reflection the most painful part) I was settled in to start.

He cleaned and dried my teeth and when he started to cement the brackets on he told me to breath through my nose.....at that point I remembered the lamb Pasanda and garlic nann I had the night before, and I wondered if that was his point.  So now I was a little self consious!  Back to the fitting...interestingly the anchor that I had seen others have fitted on the Internet wasn't used on me, instead the bracket on the back tooth is metal and the wire just fits in there, which I was happy about as that was the part of the fitting I was dreading the most.

This part of the procedure was not painful, more uncomfortable.  I felt great relief when the wide mouth frog device was removed, but after that it started to go downhill a bit.  Fixing the wire was a little uncomfortable, thinking about it now, that should have been pretty obvious.  But nearly an hour later, job finished, I now have a rail of what looks like fuse wire across my teeth.

They told me to clean them well with normal tooth brush and toothpaste, but also to clean under with those little interdental brushes, not to bite with my front teeth and to be prepared that they may stain, which I expected to hear from my own research.

I left the dentist, still full of adrenaline, went home, had a good look in the mirror.  There are little red, blue and green dots on the brackets, but these have started to come off now.  So after the 2 hours that they told me not to eat had passed, I had a lovely mushroom soup for lunch and then did what all people do when they are worried about things, went to the pub! After a few painkillers, several pints of Pilsen and sausage with mash for tea,  I was feeling OK!