I am SO READY to get my braces off. They're starting to get rather annoying. I mean, I am definitely appreciative of all the improvements they've made, but I'm starting to get a little anxious about that debanding date. I find out on January 28, a month from now, when the braces come off. It could be anywhere from 6 weeks to another few months. I'm so anxious!!

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The piece that you see behind the wire on my bottom teeth is the threader. It's to close the small spaces.

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Just finished with an adjustment, and I have some good news.

1. I talked to my doctor about tongue thurst. His response was "oh don't worry, we remove the tongue when treatment is finished." lol. My ortho is great. Anyway, I do have tongue thrust, and my ortho was already aware of it. When I get my braces off, he is putting a metal, permnanent retainer on my bottom teeth, and for the top teeth I will have an invisilign-type retainer to be worn at night. Also, he is going...

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On 12/16/08, I will have had my braces on for 8 months! It's so hard to believe this much time has passed already. My next adjustment is on the 17th, and I'm going to ask my ortho about the tongue thrust issue and these headaches I've been having. At my last adjustment, I had the "finishing wire" (the thick curly one) put on my top teeth, so I hope that means my treatment will be over soon.

Here are some pictures.

For reference, this is what my teeth looked...

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Well I forgot to get more elastics from my ortho this week! Oops. I have a terrible memory. And of course the ortho is only open during the same hours I work. Fortunately, my amazingly sweet (potential boy)friend, picked up more elastics for me AND brought them to my work. So I only went a couple of hours without them.

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