Monday, July 30, 2012

Do you see any movement?

So It's been about 3 1/2 weeks since my last adjustment and I think I see a little bit of movement. My ortho is trying to rotate my teeth so that my lower teeth match up with the grooves of my upper teeth (like gears in a clock).

Here are comparison pictures between Week 88 and Week 91:


Obviously no BIG changes but you can see slight differences. My next adjustment is next week. I hope my ortho sees progress! I've been diligently wearing my elastics everyday. I'm getting impatient lol

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Week 88 - Adjustment #12!

I had my adjustment this morning, and apparently I was supposed to wear my Class II elastics at night for the past 12 weeks! DOH! I seriously don't remember them telling me that... So now I'm back to elastics full time, but my configuration is a little bit different. I'm still in a Class II configuration on my right side (where my open bite is) but now I'm in a triangle configuration on my left side. WHAT? Wait, shouldn't my triangle configuration be on my RIGHT side, where my teeth need to come together? I'm SO confused. I even asked the assistant if my orthodontist wrote that down right, and apparently he did. I could have sworn triangle configurations are meant for bringing teeth together... I'm really tempted to call my orthodontist office to confirm my elastics configuration again.  [edit 11:55am] I called and he tried to explain why my elastics are this way. All I know is that he was trying to compare it to like gears in a clock, and how my teeth need to come together.. yada yada yada. I didn't understand any of it, but at least he knows what he is doing lol


Open bite with Class II elastics.

Triangle elastics on left side

Week 88 - Front view

I also asked my orthodontist how much longer he expects me to be in braces. He said that it all depends on how strict I wear my elastics. <Okay kids, time to do a little math!> My overbite is currently at 3mm, and he wants it to be at about 1mm, and teeth move 1mm a month. So since it needs to move 2mm, that will take about 2 months. Then he said I will probably do final tweaks for another month, so I should be done in about 3 months. This again all depends on me and how well I wear my elastics.

HOLY MOLY. 3 more months!!! That means I should be done by October! Yeah baby! Please believe that I will be wearing these babies 24/7.

Of course I still feel like my elastics configuration is backwards, but I guess I will just have to trust that my ortho knows what he is doing. *shrug*