Week 96 with the Damon Braces

Summary: Feeling some "good" pain :D

I had my ortho appointment on Monday and I must say it was great. I am not sure why, but this time around I was there for 45 minutes instead of my usual 20 minutes. This is what happened...

As usual, I arrived and checked in. Before I could take a seat in the waiting area the nurse calls me over and I am seated in one of the doctor's patient chairs. Before taking my seat I saw one of my orthodontist looking at the computer and instructing the nurse to do something. So, shortly after I sat down, the nurse went ahead and removed my upper wires. Later, I had to wait for a few minutes for the orthodontist to come and check my progress.

The orthodontist took a look and asked me to open and close my mouth a few times to see how the teeth were aligning. He said the gap looked good - it looked like it was closing well but that we still needed to work on opening up the upper left side. He also decided to have the lower wires removed because he thought that the way I was wearing my rubber bands were preventing my teeth from opening up so here comes another experiment!!!!!

My lower wires were taken off and he worked on new wires (without the hooks). He said the new wire is stronger. He shaped the wire and did some twisting to it and also made it a little narrower, I guess to narrow my teeth on the bottom. With regards to the upper wires, I am not sure he did much adjusting to it. Afterward, it took forever for the nurse to place the lower wires. She had trouble aligning it and kept putting it in and out....

Once both my wires were in I was told we would be putting a "button" on my molar. I wasn't sure where but the nurse explained it would be in the inner part (I'll post the pictures later). So now I have a "button" on my 1st molar on the upper left side and I wear a new rubberband that goes from the button to the 2nd molar on the lower left side. This is supposed to help push out the upper teeth. So far, it is working but hasn't moved far out enough.

Overall, it is great!