I didn't realise just how long ago I last updated my blog! To be honest there's been nothing exciting to update with. No new wires, not even new coloured ligs cause I'm stuck with silver because I have so much powerchain on there's no room for ligs! Last appointment was on Tuesday 26th July where it was decided that drastic measures had to be employed because that pesky top central right incisor just was NOT wanting to move anywhere fast. So back went on the dreaded molar build ups which I HATE with a passion. NOTHING makes me so bloomin miserable as these things! So on they went on Tuesday and off they came on Wednesday! Back in today (Thursday) and got double sized ones back on :( But it seems that just with putting the molar buildups on, it has given my top central incisor some room to move and it's moved almost 1mm since Tuesday! Or at least I think it's a mm, she went from saying 9 to 8 LOL.

My jaw surgery was supposed to be in June, but June has been and gone and no surgery date yet. Hopefully come 16th August (my next ortho appointment) this incisor will have moved enough to take the lateral incisor into the correct place.

So here's the pics while I go mope round the house with my new 'friends'

Full frontal minus the molar buildups. Powerchain all along the bottom teeth. Fancy spring things on top

Side view. Big gap there. Blue elastics.

Other side. Blue elastics. Powerchain top and bottom.

Impressed by the lumps of cement?

What the molar buildups do to my bite. You can see it's lift that central incisor away from the bottom teeth

Rwoooaaaarrrr!

2 Updates In 1 Day!

While trying to take my mind off of the pain of today's latest adjustment and before I go to bed with some painkillers I thought I'd have a wee look at the difference between then and now.

First picture is from when I got my braces put on, way back on 27th May 2008. Followed by my first adjustment.

Then comes how my teeth looked almost exactly a year ago from now (Dec 2009) and finally how things are today (30th November 2010). Quite a difference huh? :)

December 2010

Today was the day where my orthodontist has truely turned evil I think! LOL! My appointment lasted 30 minutes today, my lips are red raw from all the pulling and tugging, my jaw is sore from her pushing it in a direction it'd rather not have been pushed and now I can't speak properly not chew.

So what did I get this time: wire on bottom, pulled out, reshaped a bit and put back in again. Top wire changed to a thicker wire, 2 powerchains, wire ties and a hook added.

Now got another molar buildup on the bottom spanning 2 teeth this time (OH I so hate these molar buildups, whoever thought up these as an idea must be sadistic I'm sure)

Oh and in order for us to try and get my top teeth behind my bottom teeth (Oh how I wish when I was a teenager we just skipped the braces to bring the top teeth in front of the bottom LOL) I now have to do some 'Patient Participation'. I now have elastics. It says they are green on the packet, but they are actually white. The numbers on the packet says: distance: 20MM, 30MM and force 54g, 89g. No idea what that means but if anyone reading this does then feel free to leave a comment and inform me :) I have to wear them 24/7 except for when I'm cleaning my teeth.

I have managed to 'eat' a fried egg sandwich with them in so guessing I'll be able to eat with the elastics in all the time.

So now for the pictures! I'm sorry the side on ones aren't too open, my lips hurt too much from being pulled and stretched so much so I wasn't going to make them even more sore just for taking some pics. But anyways I'm sure you'll get the idea!

Full Frontal

Bottom with molar buildup

My right side

My left side

Well! It's been almost a whole year since I last updated. To be honest nothing exciting happened. Most of my appointments just meant checkups and new ligs. However my ortho has now left for pastures new (git! he shouldn't have left me! LOL) and now I have a new ortho. And boy did she go to town with me. I now have 2 POWERCHAINS! Yes 2! Feeling the sympathy from you guys :) As well as 2 powerchains she also gave me new thicker wires top and bottom, new ties and new springy looking things. By the time she had finished I was beginning to resemble Hannibal Lecter! That's 2 years 5 months down, another 7 months left to go. Although I suspect we are behind schedule as my midline on top is not in the right place yet.

So now here are the pictures. Can you see a change from last update?

Latest Update

Had my last appointment a couple of weeks ago, can't remember the date off the top of my head.
Nothing exciting happened, just had ligs changed, kept to orange and purple cause I think they are groooooovy!

Here are the pics!

Front!

Left side. A gap is appearing!


And the right side.

And here we are already at August update! Today 26th August 2009 at 10.40am I was in the ortho's chair again. I knew today was the day that we start to move the top incisor round. Was quite a long appointment,
I got pink ligs off and groovy purple and orange ligs put on,
top archwire off and then it decided it wasn't going to play ball and took some doing to get it back in again,
long wire tie put on to keep the canine and lateral incisor where they should be
and
2 powerchains put on at the front! eeeeeeeek!
Teeth hurting a little from the powerchains, we'll see what it feels like tomorrow.
Now for the pics!
Pics are not playing ball today so a bit out of sorts but it will do, you'll get the picture :)




Right hand side
Bottom

Left hand side with the wire tied teeth


The full frontal with both powerchains. I'm so glad the gaps not in the middle though!

Found My Camera - Latest July Pics

This is how much of a gap I now have at the front on the top! I pushed my false tooth over to have it where it should be. It's pretty cool although I'm thinking it is going to be really weird having 2 top front teeth in the right place. You can now see that the rest of the teeth need to budge over a bit to fill that gap and get my midline into well erm the midline! :)

You can now see how much of a gap has developed when you look at this next picture and compare it to some of the earlier ones.

Oooo a bit much saliva going on here but you can certainly see the teeth have moved along now. The tooth with no lig on has the powerchain on it and orth said he would keep the lig off for now as ligs can slow things down?? I don't know anything about that will just take his word for it.



And this is the other side...all you toothypegs will be moving shortly to your new home! Ortho says that at my next appointment we start moving that incisor round to the midline.


And last but not least, my beautiful bottom sparkly pearls. They are looking good. I do think they need to be nudged over ever so slightly to get the midline exact but something tells me I'm perhaps going to have to make do with just ever so slightly not nudged over.


Back again in August. Happy viewing!