missed appointment!

Sat 18 Sept

Oh dear. I committed the ultimate faux pas last week and missed my appointment at the dental hospital. I still have to get an inside wire fitted on my bottom set of teeth. So that they don’t move. Once t hat’s done, that’ll be it – finished, finito, forever!

Sorry  for the crap picture but my camera has run out of batteries and my phone is a touch phone so i can’t see or feel the ‘capture’ button.

I now have 99% feeling back in my chin and mouth. And I’ve now forgotten all the pain I went through in the recovery stages, back in Jan/Feb.  i’m really pleased i had this procedure done. If you are thinking about it too I would say, go for it. The results are definately worth it!

true force elastics

Fri 19 March

Well they may be small but they certainly can be powerful. I’m using these at the moment to do what my orthodontist referrs to as ‘fine tuning’, aligning the centre line between my top and bottom teeth. At night i have to wear one across the front of my teeth – but it really hurt. I didn’t use it last night cos i was in pain all day – and she said i only need to wear it every other night or so just to keep my eye on it.

I was really hoping to get the braces off by June, cos i’m going on holiday – yay! And it would be fab to be wire free. Especially with all the eating out I intend to do…. but my orthodontist said its up to me…..the longer i have them on the better the result. She said if I wanted I could just take them off now. 

 I’m a lot more self conscious of them post op though as my teeth are more prominent. I went out on Saturday night and when i was stood at the somewhat crowded bar I was paranoid about smiling! I don’t want to be  feeling like that on holiday.

My teeth also have apparently ‘over corrected’ post op, which I of course I took to mean ‘goofy’. Yet also that is supposedly a good thing in case my bottom jaw tries to go back to its old naughty ways and moves forward by a milimeter or so.

heavy duty elastics

 

Wow. Had another visit to the orthondontist yesterday. They’ve given me new elastics (the code ‘blue’ ones) to close the gaps around the back of my mouth where my back teeth don’t close, and its heavy duty stuff, man. I’m feeling pretty rough today (and last night) and i’m wondering whether that’s why.

Todays symptoms are:

• Heachache
• Eyes hurt in the light
• mouth feels swollen inside
• exterior swelling around cheeks and upper jaw feels and looks worse
• keep biting my tongue again at the back
• Pain in lower lip where elastics are rubbing and the nerves are growing back.

I’m supposed to be getting my legs waxed down the he road at 3pm, and I’m wondering whether I’ll feel fit enough to stagger down (or not…)