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!

I'm about to go see The Hunger Games so I need to make this a quick post even though this title is mad long already ahahah! ok ready go!

Let's see my orthodontist is a fucking ass hole.

I got a power chain on all my top teeth...though you can't really tell since it's clear...

All of my bottom teeth finally have the rubber bandy shit around the brackets. They are pink!

Minus my bite...my teeth are looking quite good if I do say so myself...though my orthodontist disagrees...but one of the ortho assistants said they were looking good-she's nice so her opinion means more to me than my jerk face of an orthodontist. 

No literally! The assistant did EVERYTHING to my teeth all my orthodontist did was look at my teeth for like 10 seconds and said you have a long way to go. No shit Sherlock but they are looking sexy compared to what 8 months ago? Damn.

Okay here's a picture :)

Looking better eh?

When I do a little slide show of my teeth with braces at the end of my treatment shits gonna look cray bc my stupid webcam off and on decides to flip my pictures so everything looks either opposite or normal. oh well.

May the odds be ever be in your favor!

Happy Hunger Games!

Off to the movies :)

No popcorn for me though :( 

Womp

Hate Braces

Ah.

Okay Bye!

Love, ME :)

teeth month dos

I kept forgetting to take a picture! i said i would take a picture the day after my last post...oops 2 weeks later my bad! soo without further here are my teeth. 

They look the same to me...

I think my next ortho appt is the 25th of October.

If I see any change I'll make a post before them.

My body is sore.

My teeth aren't!

Soo yeah.

Bye.

Love, Me

Day 2: FOOD and braces

Eating with braces is currently the same as it was when I had my spacers in. My diet has consisted of soup, apple sauce, and yogurt. Yesterday my mom mashed up banana for me so yay one more food I can eat. My teeth don't hurt as bad today but they still feel bad awkward. My mom made me perogies for lunch. If you don't know what that is. They are basically like ravioli but with potato inside. If you still have no idea what I'm talking about this is what they look like...

you can boil them and cook it like pasta or you can fry them. We boiled it so they would be softer to eat! So yayy one more food I can eat! My mom also came back from the store and bought:

• box of mashed potatoes(the kind you add water and stick in the microwave)
• sweet potatoes, fruit cups
• more bananas
• eggs(I'm planning on making scrambled eggs later...I need calcium too!)
• potato pancakes(latkes...no I'm not Jewish but they taste amazing and it's another food to eat!)
• more soup
• and straws! 

I'm hoping to be able to eat more solid foods soon!

So last night my orthodontist called my mom. He asked how I was feeling and such. It was kinda nice that he called. And today in the mail I got a letter from him. It pretty much just said what was wrong with my teeth and what is getting fixed with braces on. Ooo and and and...it said 24 months with braces! I know that's 2 years but honestly I've known people to have braces for much longer! I'm praying it isn't longer than 2 years. I'd like to graduate college brace free! 

One more thing before I go. Brushing my teeth last night was a bitch. It was not easy. That dental floss threader is so hard to use. I have to like hold up/down my lips while trying to get the stupid dental floss through my wires. Gah. I hope it gets easier.

If any one is actually reading this...how long does it take to start seeing changes in your teeth with braces? Even if it's not a dramatic change I'm still curious. It would definitely make me feel better seeing a change in my teeth so I know that these train tracks in my mouth are actually doing their job!

Off to brush my teeth. Hopefully it'll go better than it did yesterday!

Bye for now :D

Emily

Brace yourself! Day 1

Let me just begin by saying this was one of the most un-enjoyable experiences ever.

Alright first she cleaned my teeth with this nasty pumice toothpaste. Then I went to rinse my mouth out (there will be a lot of rinsing!) Then she cleaned my teeth, rinsed. 

Then she put this beauty in my mouth...

Cute huh?! Not my mouth though lol this was from google :-P

Then there's a lot of water and suctioning.

Then she painted on this nasty like glue crap on my bottom teeth and started to place the brackets on. After that she called the orthodontist over to look at them to make sure they were on straight and such. Then she got this blue light device thing and she just shined it on each bracket. The same process happened for the top teeth. This part wasn't too painful except they use a lot of pressure to make sure the brackets are secured to your teeth.

After the brackets are they take the lip retractor out. Anddd you go rinse your mouth out!

Next was what I found to be the most painful part. They removed the spacers and put the bands on my teeth. Holy shit that was painful! They shove this little metal band...

over 1 molar on the top and bottom on the left and right sides of your mouth. This part was horrible! They tell you to bite down on this little stick too to make sure they are down all the ways. To make this especially nice and painful for me, I had to do this process twice because they needed to put a bigger size on my teeth. I honestly teared up a bit that's how bad it hurt! Maybe I just have a low tolerance for pain but in my opinion this was horrible.

Almost done! They put the wire on the brackets and you can pick your color rubber band thingy you want to go over the wire and on your brackets...I picked clear.

Last part! They tell you the foods you can't eat and my orho gave me a waterbottle filled with dental goodies lol which included wax (to put on the braces if they are poking at your lips) floss, tooth brush, dental mirror, a 2 minute egg timeer, and some other stuff.

Currently I am in a shit ton of pain. My lips like go out weird and feel so strange. I have a freaking lisp now. I'm just in pain to quite honest. I took Tylenol earlier. I'm hungry but I'm scared that it's really going to hurt. Obviously I have to eat sooner or later lol but right now...not happening.

The only bright side is that 2 years from now I'm gonna have a hot smile!

Gross right? Bleh

Well until next time...

Cya! 

-Emily

First Post!

Hey there! My name is Emily and as of 3 minutes ago I decided I want to document my whole braces journey. I have needed them for the longest time and I'm 19 turning 20 in August and I am now just getting braces. I was thinking about making a youtube account to document my time with braces but I sometimes feel awkward talking to the camera, I always mess up with what I want to say, and I think it is 10x easier just writing stuff down and taking pictures and such.

Well this was just a quick intro about why I'm making this blog. There will be a couple posts soon to come today.

Bye for now!
Emily