Candymomof3

Hi everyone...just an update. I went to my ortho on Monday and had a productive visit. As I expected he started me on rubber bands. Those little beasts are quite painful! I have had a difficult few days! I am glad to have them as I hear they can work wonders with bite issues. Today is not so bad and I am doing a little better. I have to wear them 24 hours a day unless brushing/eating. I have been leaving them in while eating and only taking them out to brush and floss though, and then I put them right back in. I have been changing them about 4-5 times a day..staying on top of them big time! I am wearing them going from bottom molar to upper canine...medium stregnth.
They did the figure 8 lig loops around all four front upper teeth now...closing a gap that had opened on one side next to my front tooth. Everything is actually looking really good, I think the bands are helping already..I can already tell again that my bite has changed in these 3 days.
I go back in 6 weeks this time instead of 8 weeks. (Yay) and will be getting an xray of my bite to see where we are at. He brought up the chance of extracting teeth, but I told him I really don't want to go that route with my face already being pretty thin. He thinks the bands will work and will leave me with a slight overjet which he says will be perfectly normal. Anything is better than what it was doing...pulling the canines down was pushing all my uppers out and I hated that.
No refining this time, as was the plan...so this visit was just adding the bands, new ligs in the figure 8 fashion and some chatting.
Next time, I get another wire and the xray. I wonder how much difference the elastics will make in 6 weeks? A lot I hope!!
Hurt more to eat than usual...have gone back to softer food for a few days. I had a McDonalds Strawberry milkshake for lunch yesterday--it was wonderful!!!!
Will try to put up pics soon!