One Year With Braces!

I got my braces on July 28th and today is the 10th...well the 11th at 1:32am but you get my point! Basically it's been about a year with braces. One more to go! This year went by pretty fast I must say. So basically in the past year with braces I've went through a shit ton of pain BUT I'll admit that it has been totally worth it! I love seeing my teeth get straighter and straighter every month. I'm shocked that I've actually kept up with this blog. It blows my mind actually because every time I've made a blog, minus Tumblr(which btw my user name is sassyylittlething so follow me!) , I've never been consistent with it or I just forget I have a blog all together lol. Like I said  a year ago (at least I think I said this) I'm making this blog for me to see my the progress in my teeth.

So at today's appointment let's see, my Ortho said that my teeth were starting to look good, which is better than his usual downer-ness of my teeth lol. I didn't get a power chain on my top teeth. The teeth on the left side of my mouth got a power chain to turn one of my middle teeth and that's really about it. I didn't get colors on the bottom because well they didn't ask me :( the Ortho assistant or whatever just started putting on the elastics.Though she did ask me if I wanted this whiter looking color or the more clear one. They looked almost identical so I just said I don't care and she went with the more white one because apparently they don't stain as easily. Whateva! I kinda like this color more because they make my braces even less visible. HOORAH!

So yeah. Here's a picture :)

I'm thinking of making another blog post on like my actual one year anniversary of having braces and possibly make a little youtube video with all the pictures. We'll see!

Ok well bye!

Love, ME!

braces month...summer!

As usual I've lost track of how long I've had these wretched braces on for. It's been almost a year though! I know I for a fact I got them towards the end of July. Not that it's anywhere near July now...but I'm on summer vacation and I was on my vacation when I got them on.

Any ways. Today was a bitch. I went to the dentist and then like after that appointment and hour later I had an ortho appointment. The dentist I had was a bitch. My orthodontist was strangely in a really good mood today which was nice. He actually said my teeth were coming along which is what I like to hear!

So let's see. I got a stronger wire on my top teeth and a clear power chain once again.

On my bottom teeth...umm I don't actually know if they used a different wire or not but whatever. All my bottom teeth now have the rubber band thingies. I got blue ones.  

I get colored bottom braces just for me because I never got to live out my childhood of getting colored braces like everyone did in grade school. Since I'm in college I'd really rather not have people see me with colored braces because that would make me look ten times younger than I already look and no one can see my bottom teeth aka why I get colors and leave the top clear! 

Well here's a picture! 

 

That's all I gotta say!

Bye :) 

Love, ME!

1 week anniversery with braces!

Today i got my expander in. It legit took 5 minutes. Ortho just stuck these bands around my back molars on each side and made me bite down on these cotton thingys so that the cement could dry. That's weird saying cement because you don't normally think of people having cement in your mouth. Any ways, so I gota have this bitch and a half hunk of metal in my mouth for 6 months. It's making my salivate like crazy, making it impossible to swallow, and giving me a damn lisp! Ah!

Well here's a picture of me with it on.

I look like a spazz in this picture lol.You honestly can't even tell I'm wearing one. Very grateful that I didn't get the expander where you have to crank it.

I don't understand what expanders do, but they suck!

Um unless I see anything different in my teeth I won't be posting for another 6 weeks...aka when I go back to the ortho. I'm surprised at how consistent I've been with this blog.

Hahah I act like people actually read my blog! 

Whatevs this blog is more for me anyways!

Gonna attempt to eat with this contraption!

See ya whenever my teeth get straight! Latahh!

SMILES -Emily

Day 4

I'm quite surprised that I've felt the need to say something about my braces for 4 days in a row...odd. Oh well! Um well let's see shall we start with the good or bad news?

BAD

Well I think I already mentioned that the wax has not been sticking to my brackets but whatever. This one bracket is legit stabbing me. The little hook where I'm assuming in the future rubber bands will go is hooking it self into my damn inside lip! Gah it hurts! When I go to my ortho Thursday I'm getting them to stick the wax on for me because clearly I'm incapable of doing so. Let's move on to good news.

For the first time with my braces I have been out in public and seen by people other than my family and ortho. I went to church then my friends house to go to the mall. I forget how it came up but I told her I had braces and she was like "REALLY? I didn't even notice!" Damn that makes me feel good. Glad these ceramic braces are doing their job! That's really it. Blah bye I need to finish homework.

Bye for now!

Emily 

WAIT! No! Something else good I forgot to mention! I was starving at the mall so of course where am I gonna find apple sauce and soup lol so I went and got teriyaki (definitely spelled that wrong!) chicken and it was cut up into tiny pieces so I figured I'd be okay. So I did what the ortho told me and chewed it with my back teeth...ehh it wasn't awful! I've had worse pain. Believe me! Okeyy now I'm done talking so...bye again!