Today was my ortho appointment. Hurray! The good news is that now it seems like my appointments are every 7 weeks and not every 8 weeks anymore - at least for the next one, it will be in 7 weeks and so was the previous one.
A lot of things happened today.
1) New archwire - my lower teeth got new wires. My ortho said these would be my final wires for my lower teeth. I had already gotten my final wires for my upper teeth. Now both my upper and lower teeth have wires with extra antennae for rubber bands (as I discovered today)
2) Adjusted archwire - my upper teeth are still not opening up. The left side needs to wide out to be where it should be. These were also my last wires. So what did the ortho do? Did I get new wires? Nope, he took them out and with pliers he twisted the left side to be a wider arc. LOL. That was just funny.
3) New rubber bands - I got a total of 3 rubber bands. 2 of them are simmetrical - one on each side of the lower teeth. These are, as you can see in the pictures, to bring my teeth closer together. I think it is also bringing my lower teeth back a bit. These I do not have to change and will stay there until my next appointment. I can see a lot of food getting stuck in the near future. The 3rd rubber band is going from my 1st molar on the upper right to the antenna on the lower right. This band is supposed to help shift my lower teeth so that the upper and lower teeth are centered. It has another function too but I forgot :D. The annoying part is that I have to take it off to eat and brush and replace it with a new one every time. I also got a little tool to put it on.
I also felt a little embarrassed today because as the assistant took off the old archwire I could smell something coming out of my mouth probably from dirty stuff stuck inside the brackets (not my fault!).
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