HeadJam

There's one tooth that's not quite up to snuff yet in my mind, so I don't mind having them on for another month or so until it gets fixed. I'm gonna upload more pics now, so give me a second to boot up photobucket..... Done



Compared to the beginning:



I know it doesn't look ...

Stay (car)'tooned!

That's me.
That's my deband appt.
That's me getting my braces off the morning of my birthday.

PS. I may look like twilight guy now, but after I have a shower I won't. I thought I was making a goofy smile, but it just turned out weird looking and red tinged because of the mirror.

I propose a brand-new competitive sport for people with braces. Go out to your local bagel store, get an "everything" bagel, eat said bagel, and then...... see how many pieces of food you can pick out. After 5 minutes, take a picture and upload it here. The person with the fewest pieces of food remaining wins!

I'd post mine right now, cept the camera is in the shop.

My teeth seem to finally fit together properly and my bite hasn't changed much from the past 2 appointments. All that's left is "finishing moves", so I gotta make sure scorpion doesn't take off his mask and send a fireball at me. Looks like all there's left to do is finish rotating a couple of front teeth.

Pics soon!

Yes, I'm a bad updater. I keep meaning to bring home the nice camera and take some update pics. Then I planned to open up photoshop and make some sort of comparison picture or whatnot. Then I was gonna build a shrine to my orthodontist in the hope that it'll shorten my sentence. Then I was gonna abandon that idea and invent a special time machine that makes only my teeth go forward in time to the point that they're straight. Then I researched nanotechnology so that I could make tiny little ...

So, I went in with another broken archwire (same spot). They changed the wire to a lighter one to keep it from happening again. He put a lot of bends in it too, so that's interesting. They also added two more elastics from the upper to lower canines. These ones are stronger and you can see them when I talk . I sure hope I don't break anymore archwires or I'll never be able to open my mouth!

I went in today to fix a broken archwire on the top, and my orthodontist suprised me with elastics. So, instead of just replacing the top wire, I've got elastics from the back top to the bottom canines. I'm pretty lucky this time because you can't see them when I talk. He also filed down my front tooth that looked weird ever since it became straight.

I don't plan on telling my brother (who I live with) that I got them. I wonder how long before he'll notice.

I have yet to cause a bracket to fall off, which is great because I lost a few of them when I had braces as a kid.

However, when I was at the appointment today, the tech was putting in the upper wire to the back bracket and forced it off. I had to sit there for about 20 mins while the doc finished with someone else before he could come re-place it.

Well, after he was all done, they found some heavier wires and now I'm sore again. Except for the bracket coming off, ...

I've started dreamin' about my braces.

Now, I realize that anything that's a big part of your life naturally finds its way into your dreams, but why must my braces pester me there?

The first dream I had, 3 brackets fell off and one of them had split clearly in half. I spent the rest of the dream carrying them around on a plate trying to keep the plate balanced so I don't lose them.

The second one that I had (last night) merely detached the bracket and ...

So I'm starting to get some real grievances about my braces.

1. It seems that my damn teeth bite together in a different way each day. I know this is a good thing and very indicative of how messed up it must've been before and that it's getting better. That doesn't mean I like it though

2. Sharpness. It seems that certain foods or drinks sensitize my lips to the sharp metal. The Damon system braces have sharp protrusions on the top and bottom that would normally ...

I don't think I've owned two tubes of the same toothpaste in the past 10 years. Every time I buy a new tube of crest, it's a new formula or new package than the last time. This time, it's "Pro health". I just call it a pointless exercise in marketing. After all, how many people switch brands of toothpaste in the course of their lives? I'd be willing to wager not many. Of course, this crowd isn't exactly the norm either, with many people opting for sensodyne or something supercool ...

Well, after seeing a whole buttload of updates from other people, here's mine!

I just got back from my first adjustment this morning and there's really not much to report. I got a square wire for the bottom so that teeth can move in two directions at once I guess. The upper one seems to be thicker as well, but not as thick as it WILL get (says the ortho). They also mentioned I'll get elastics eventually. I guess the mild crossbite's gotta go sometime.

Well
I can't complain about pain
I can't whine about the shine
I can't snork over the torque
and
I can't gripe over any other tripe

However, I can complain about all the little tiny bits of food that get stuck EVERYWHERE. Sometimes it takes me 15 minutes of picking and tonguing and prodding to get the last piece of crud outta there only to have a friend point out a big piece of lettuce I missed. Alas many a lass has snickered while I pick out a ...

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