My Birthday!!

Oh!! I totally forgot to post that my birthday was on June 18th :) I'm 27! Officially in my late twenties... oh boy.

Deep Bite

Natural bite = open bite.

I figured I would show you guys a picture of what my bite looks like now if I was to bite down naturally. My back teeth don't touch and my front teeth hit my lower brackets. If I was to bite down to eat, then my lower teeth hide behind my upper teeth. See how rounded my lower teeth are right now? I cannot WAIT until they straighten up! Oh an yes, my power chain is stained yellow. What can I say? I love mustard ;)

Week 33

Nothing new (as far as I can tell). I'm still in Class II elastics, my teeth are still horizontally slanted, my bottom teeth are still behind my uppers when I bite down, and my front incisor is still longer than the other. Ugh. I feel like I am in limbo and that nothing is happening! I guess this is the part where my patience should kick in right? My next adjustment is in 4 weeks so I really hope that they do something different where I can see and feel progress.

Week 31

Week 31 - Lower teeth moving
back up into uppers :( WHY??!?!

So my lower teeth were in the process of moving down behind my upper teeth before my adjustment. Making really good progress too! And now with this new wire, my teeth moved back up! It looks more like Week 23 now!! They were doing so good before this adjustment.

It could be my upper teeth moved, bite blocks got lower... Or maybe something else moved inside my mouth that I am not seeing! All I know is that it has to get worse before it gets better :( I hope my lowers start moving back down again soon. This frustration is what I get for paying very close attention to my teeth movement! *bangs head against a wall*

Week 29 / 3rd Appointment Update

Week 29 - Front bite

So I just came back from my 3rd appointment. They replaced my clear power chain for a new one. Thank GOD because that last one was a yucky yellow color (damn you mustard!!). Looks like I'm still stuck with the Class II configuration with my rubber bands and they gave me a couple more bags. Also, they finally added brackets to my last 4 molars. When I bit down I could feel my upper molar was hitting my bottom bracket but I just shrugged it off and left (BIG MISTAKE). I went back to work and was eating my honey greek yogurt w/ granola (totally the bomb.com by the way...) I heard something break in my mouth! Yup, you guessed it, one of my new brackets freakin' BROKE OFF. My upper molar bit down on my bottom bracket so hard it popped that sucker right off!! So I had to make an appointment again today. Luckily they were able to take me in an hour after I called.

I finally have brackets on my back teeth!

They looked at my bite and was debating whether to give me a molar band, just re-bond the bracket, or re-bond the bracket and add more molar build up to open my bite (NOOOOOO)! Luckily my ortho was kind enough to just re-bond the bracket lower so my upper teeth don't touch it. Whew! I'm going to San Diego next week for my anniversary trip and I would have hated to have more molar build up added. I want to be able to eat normally on my trip!

My next appointment is in 8 weeks. I hope my bite is closer to being fixed by then!

3rd appointment next week!

I can't wait for my orthodontist appointment next week. I'm excited to see what they say about my lower teeth progression and my bite after wearing these elastics for the past 8 weeks. I'm also nervous because I'd like them to do something different to my teeth each time and I'll be SO sad if they just send me away for another 8 weeks without doing anything!

My teeth have come pretty far since they first put on these thicker wires 14 weeks ago and elastics 7 weeks ago:

Week 14


Week 27

Week 27

Wow is it just me or have my lower teeth moved dramatically since last week? I mean I noticed my lower teeth were kind of sore the past couple days but I didn't think they would move so much so fast. You can compare this pic to my Week 26 picture below.




Week 26