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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!