Sunday, 6 January 2008
The braces are coming off!!!!
I spoke to David Young, my orthodontist, tonight. After looking at the latest photos of my teeth he's decided to take the braces off and put me into clear aligners. I'm so excited I can hardly contain myself! I know we're not finished yet, and I'll have to get used to wear the aligners religiously, but it feels like the end is in sight!
Two months on....
Two months on and there have been enough changes to make it worth a post. Here's a photo that was taken today:
The last couple of months have been quite tough. It's amazing how set up the brain is for the operation and how it all feels like it should be over by now.... What has been particularly tough is the wearing of box elastics (elastics worn in a sqaure around the molars to bring them together) as from the front I've been resembling Count Dracula. A look that doesn't inspire me to smile too often!!
However, on the positive side of things, I've started to gain feeling back in all of my face. I have no numbness in the top two thirds of my face now and the whole of my bottom lip and chin are tingly. The best description I can give you is that it feels like the latter stages of pins and needles - when it's stopped being painful and just feels as if it is a bit "burny". Most of the time I can completely ignore it, but occasionally it drives me mad. When it does, I just try to remember that I'm lucky that it does feel like that as it almost certainly means that I'll get full feeling back in my whole face.
My molars are starting to touch now and I can really tell that the whole thing is going to fit well when we are done. It's quite an odd sensation to be able to wrap my lower front teeth around the upper ones....I'm really so pleased with how the bite is coming along. Here's a close up photos of the gaps I have on the left side of my mouth...Not too far to go now.
The last couple of months have been quite tough. It's amazing how set up the brain is for the operation and how it all feels like it should be over by now.... What has been particularly tough is the wearing of box elastics (elastics worn in a sqaure around the molars to bring them together) as from the front I've been resembling Count Dracula. A look that doesn't inspire me to smile too often!!
However, on the positive side of things, I've started to gain feeling back in all of my face. I have no numbness in the top two thirds of my face now and the whole of my bottom lip and chin are tingly. The best description I can give you is that it feels like the latter stages of pins and needles - when it's stopped being painful and just feels as if it is a bit "burny". Most of the time I can completely ignore it, but occasionally it drives me mad. When it does, I just try to remember that I'm lucky that it does feel like that as it almost certainly means that I'll get full feeling back in my whole face.
My molars are starting to touch now and I can really tell that the whole thing is going to fit well when we are done. It's quite an odd sensation to be able to wrap my lower front teeth around the upper ones....I'm really so pleased with how the bite is coming along. Here's a close up photos of the gaps I have on the left side of my mouth...Not too far to go now.
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