The end is eventually in sight!!!!!!

At last, the orthodontist has committed to an end being on the horizon!!!!!!!!

At first I misunderstood what he said, I thought that he meant he had nearly finished what he was doing, well when you hear the words, ‘we are thinking of finishing soon', you have to put it into context with the situation you are in.

I was getting towards the end of a very long and quite painful appointment, and the regular dentist asked how much longer we would be as the next person was asking, my orthodontist said a few minutes, then his line 'we are thinking of finishing soon', but then I clicked to what he really meant, finishing treatment! Maybe only a couple of months left he said, yeah!!

But back to my appointment. He took off the bendy wires, which was painful in its self, but then he put a straight one on the top, and started to tie it on with metal ties, pushing and pulling and twisting, I felt like I could have screamed. Then he seemed happy, ground a bit off my teeth on the bottom and undid everything and took that off. I was very confused. What he was actually doing was manipulating them into a position so that he could even up my bite by taking a bit off my bottom teeth to stop them knocking together. Which seems to have worked.

But as he was taking off the top wire, he pulled off the top anchor, so I had to endure cleaning and cementing of that back on, not comfy to be sat there with the sucking drain and cotton wool stuffed in your mouth when you aren’t expecting it.

So he has put straight wires back on top and bottom. The anchor didn’t take so he has left it off, just saying that we don’t need it anymore! Well he knows best I suppose. Then he told me that next time he is going to give me some bands to tie top and bottom together for sleeping in, then soon after that we will be finished!

All I need to do then is get a retainer for sleeping in and I will have as perfect teeth as I am getting.

This was the best news I could have got on the 1 years anniversary of having the braces put on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

More bendy wires!

This month hasn't been without action, within 2 days I had lost 3 of the bands, I have no idea how. One of them constantly falls off anyway, but the other 2, on the other side, next to each other, no idea what happened, very strange. However had them replaced with no further problems.

However I am still having problems with the pain of the bendy wires that were attached last time, although they have done the job from what I can see, and enabled the bite to be closed once again, it hurts a lot. Back on pain killers for a few days to ease it. I was talking to my boyfriend about it and even he thinks that my teeth at the top have moved in significantly and my lip doesn’t stick out as far any more. I just can't begin to imagine what my face will look like without any braces on at all!

But I am so happy with the result at the moment, I am not even a year into the treatment and I believe I am nearly finished.

Over Christmas I have nothing to report, the only time that I had a problem was with a bacon sandwich, I had to cut it up really small, which was commented on, but I am still surprised how people don’t say things about them, I really did think that I would get comments, but nothing has been said, well to my face anyway!!

Fingers crossed for a smooth ride until my next appointment.