Week 6

My upper wire is basically straight now! My upper teeth are still slightly slanted but now they are covering my bottom brackets more. My natural bite actually causes me to hit my lower brackets! So now I have to push my lower teeth back further to bite down :( It's sucking right now but it will get better (soon I hope!) I can definitely tell that there are changes happening!

 Look at my teeth now compared to Day 1.

I need wax?!

As I'm coming up to week 6 my bracket on my lower left molar is going ninja on my cheeks! I didn't think I would need to use wax after week 1-2! I guess as my teeth are moving my mouth needs to re-adjust itself. Such a pain, but at least I know there is something going on in my mouth :)

Leveling out!

 Okay so I didn't notice this until now, but my upper teeth have really leveled out! My teeth were aligned so slanted before and now they are almost completely straight! Awesomeness :)

Week 4


Day 1

Week 4

 Visually not much has changed with my teeth since my last update. My bite has changed slightly and I think either my top teeth are moving down or my bottom teeth are moving up. My upper teeth keep hitting my bottom brackets more often.

Week 2

Day 1


Week 2 - Much straighter!















You can really see a difference in my teeth in the first two weeks of having braces! My lateral incisors have moved back quite a bit, but there is still a ways to go!

Day 1

I got my braces fitted this morning! Ceramic on top, regular Damon metal on the bottom. I wanted all ceramic but because of my deep bite they said that ceramics on my bottom would wear my upper teeth down more than it already is. They wanted to prevent that from happening when I bite down.

Also to prevent me from biting into my bottom brackets, they put a bite block (blue cement) onto my lower molars to open my bite. I'm not sure if they will wear down before my next appointment in 12 weeks, so my diet will consist of shakes, soft foods, and liquids until I'm able to bite down properly, Maybe a good liquid diet to help lose weight, eh? :) You can kind of see which parts of the wire will need to straighten out, especially on my cuspids where they will need to be brought down. I'm excited to see how my teeth with progress!

Pre-Braces

Here are some pictures before my braces are put in. As you can see I have a pretty deep bite and my left incisor sticks out a little bit (probably trying to revert back to what it was before I had Invisalign. It stuck out 3x more than this before!). My teeth are relatively straight, but there's a lot of work that needs to be done!