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!

Consultation

So on Tuesday I went to the orthodontist for a braces consultation. When I first got there this woman took pictures of me. She took them of me smiling with my teeth showing, not with my teeth, my profile, the inside of my mouth, then took a bunch of xrays including one that went all around my head. That was the easy part.

After we just talked to the lady for a bit like why I wanted braces and such. And in case you are wondering. Well I've had crooked teeth all my life and I've just never felt confident with my smile. It sucks to be 19 going on 20 in less than a month, but I'd rather get them now rather than later.

So after that she left and the orthodontist came in looked in my mouth and talked to us for a bit about my treatment plan. He left and then the lady came back in and talked to my mom and I about the cost and the types of braces. I decided to go with the ceramic kind because they are less noticeable and I'd rather not look like a 12 year old in college with colored braces. I already look young as it is!

Then they checked to see if there was time to get impressions (moldings) of my teeth or if we'd have to set up another appointment. Luckily I was able to get them that day. Basically for the impressions, they have like this mouth guard looking thing filled with this nasty ass pink gunk. The mouth guard thing smelled like watermelon so that wasn't too bad. The molding gunk however was disgusting! When they pulled it off of my teeth it kinda hurt.

Once they finished taking impressions of my top and bottom teeth they got these little purple rubber bands and pretty much shoved them in between my teeth. OUCH! They hurt! They put one rubber band on each side of 1 molar on the left and ride, top and bottom, sides of my mouth. In all, I had 8 of those little bitches stuck in my teeth.

 This picture is basically how they put spacers on except I didn't need 3 on one side!

Now thank goodness I only had to wear them a few days. By the way these little rubber bands are called spacers. They are used to well space out your teeth so that when you are getting your braces on it won't hurt as bad getting the metal band over those molars. I'm not gonna sugar coat this and say they don't hurt because they do! It starts hurting a couple hours after you have gotten them on. They feel like you have popcorn kernels stuck in your teeth. I honestly wanted to just yank those fucking things out of my mouth!

Soo yeah. These 2  1/2 days I had them in I could only eat really soft foods because it hurt so much to chew. My diet legit consisted of chicken noodle soup, apple sauce, and yogurt.

Stay tuned for my next post about getting the braces on!

Bye for now :)

Emily