Impacted Canine

Although I've been in braces for quite awhile, close to 2 years (March), I want to write about my experience.

I chose lingual braces for aesthetic purposes to bring down my impacted canine. My exposure surgery was June 2010. I thought my tooth would be in place by now but hopefully it will be there soon. My teeth were nice prior to braces although I had a mild overbite. Now my teeth are looking the worse and I'm struggling as I thought after this much time my teeth would look better. I have a pontic over my impacted tooth but plan to take it off in a couple of weeks. The last adjustment, last Wednesday, a larger gap was made (I really cannot understand why as the canine is the same size as the pontic) and I now have a huge overbite, my teeth are beginning to prodrude through my lips when they're closed, and my bite if off and I feel pain when I bite down on the tooth behind my impacted canine/pontic. My teeth have been moved back and forth so many times. Hopefully, from this point on my teeth will look much better!