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I just can’t believe I’m coming up on my 1-year mark next month. It really has flown by so quickly. I tried to get up the guts to ask my ortho how I was doing, but all that (stupidly) came out was, “So, are my teeth moving on schedule?” As soon as I said that, I knew what he was going to say: “I don’t make schedules. Teeth move when they want to move…” Yeah, I walked right into that one. So I rephrased it to “Are they moving along well?” and he said, “Yes, they are moving.” After checking my bite, he said, “Hmmm…. That looks pretty good. I want you to lay off the elastic on the left side and just use it on the right side.” COOL!!! Then he said, “Don’t forget… only the right side.” I guess after two months, it would be a force of habit to forget and put both in. Wow – it feels so strange and off-balance to only wear one. But it will be great to actually be able to eat on the left side of my mouth and not shred my elastic. It's only been about 2 hours, and I'm already "feelin' it" on the right side.

No wire changes, but he did something to my lower wire again. I couldn’t see because he was behind me, but I think he made another small kink in it to help rotate my lower right lateral incisor. I also gave up on trying to be “inconspicuous”, and told her I wanted the Plum Crazy chain. Now I look even younger than I normally do… and I LOVE it!

Here are a couple of pics from today. You can see that my bite on the left side (right side as you look at the pic) is almost edge-to-edge, so I’m glad I’m not in elastics anymore for that side. I hope he brings it forward more though, because those teeth kind of bang together. (Or, maybe I’m just not used to teeth actually touching each other! LOL!) My midline is holding up, so far. I notice, though, that it’s in perfect alignment with my face when I’m not smiling, but when I smile, it looks “off”. Ah well… it’s 100 times better than it looked before.




Aaaand… “Le Gaps”! The only time I notice them anymore is when food decides to hide out there.



-Cathy