Tales of a snaggle-toothed bride to be!

It took some effort but the nice people at Dr. A's office uploaded my refinement clincheck finally.

At first I found the change in the front view a bit disappointing but then I took a closer look at the upper view and it looks like my next round of trays should address my remaining issues. My top arch looks like it will finally round out! Either way, I'm pretty unphased at this point. I'm too far in to give up and I've gotten so used to the trays, I don't mind them at all.
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Sorry I haven't been updating as much, my last couple of trays have been pretty uneventful. They were both without attachments and aside from my front tooth being pretty sensitive, I barely noticed that I had them on. I was a bit annoyed because I wanted to talk to Dr. A about this when I came into his office on Wednesday but he just popped in briefly while the hygienist was working on my mouth.

It's been so long though, I forgot how attachments felt but lucky for me I've got 8 of ...

I've decided that given that my teeth won't be changing as much from tray to tray anymore, I'll probably just post pictures of every second tray from here on in. After a couple of weeks in my first set of refinement trays, I've gotten back into the swing of things again and to be honest I barely notice them. What I did notice however as I was taking a few pictures last night prior to starting my new trays this morning is just how much my right front tooth needs to rotate to get in line with the ...

It's been 2 days now. 2 days since the office manager at Dr. A's office called to let me know that my refinements were in. I suppose I could have just let it be a surprise but I couldn't suppress the urge to ask how many trays there would be.

There are 23U/13L.

In case you are not familiar with my story I had 20U/21L initially.

I thanked her and tried to put on a brave face as I told my husband and a close friend. 23 more but perhaps I won't need ...

If you've been following my blog you'll know that I have a history of dental issues that I finally started taking seriously a few months prior to my starting my invisalign treatment. Those dental issues led me to my current regular dentist, Dr. H, a little over a year ago. We have a pretty good relationship which probably due in part to her being quite informative without being paternalistic, about my age and easy for me to relate to. Prior to the summer 2008, I was a quite overdue in terms of seeing ...

Sorry I've been meaning to write this post for a while and am finally getting around to it now. I blame it on the turkey that we had the weekend before I went in my moulds last Tuesday. It was our first time cooking and hosting Thanksgiving dinner and it turned out surprising good is I do say so myself! So as I dragged myself in after the long weekend early in the morning, I figured it would be a pretty straightforward appointment and that I'd be at work within the hour. I sure wish that had been ...

So here I am, at the end of my first round of invisalign... waiting until my appointment next Tuesday to discuss refinements with Dr. A. My teeth really haven't moved very much with the last tray but I thought it'd be interesting to show you every fifth tray since I started, starting from my most recent photo (prob makes more sense if you scroll from the last picture first but I forgot about that when I uploaded the photos).

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So, as you can see, there's ...

I've been debating this for a little, wondering if I should... and I'm feeling a bit daring tonight so I thought I'd post some then and now pictures. I know I've posted lots of pictures of my teeth in the last little while, but like another invisalign blogger noted - it makes such a big difference when you actually see full face photos.

You see, I've always been pretty self conscious about smiling with my teeth showing and so I've always smiled a bit awkwardly. But I've noticed since ...

This will be a pretty short update. Actually I can probably even write it up in the form of a haiku.

front right tooth, same old
top teeth - nothing changed, bottoms
as if same trays used

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Don't get me wrong I'm not unhappy with my teeth. I just know I'm going to need refinements so I'm getting a bit impatient to get started. In the mean time I'll be finished my top trays in a little over a week and on my last bottom tray after ...

Just wanted to thank the judges of the blog contest for the pleasant surprise in my inbox this morning. I promise to only use it for good and not for evil

Happy blogging everyone and congrats to the other winners too!

These last couple of trays have left me with really sore and sensitive teeth. I think tray 18 has rotated my right front tooth in the right direction but it doesn't look like it's quite where it should be. I just want these next few trays to hurry up and go go go because I'm anxious to move on to refinements which I am pretty sure I will need. I'd also like to do a thorough cleaning of my teeth. Years of overlapping teeth have revealed stains in my teeth that my hygienist couldn't reach with her ...

So I had a pretty quick visit with Dr. A today but a few important things were discussed albeit pretty briefly. It looks like I'll be going through all of my over correction trays (18-20U and 19-21L) and will likely need refinements (he thinks it would probably just be a few but was hesitant to commit). I'll also be getting a permanent retainer on the bottom and a clear essix type retainer on top. Finally, he explained that my over correction trays will only bring my teeth together more tightly ...

Dear right front tooth,

We've been through a lot together and I appreciate everything you do for me. If not for you, I wouldn't be able to chew my food properly, enunciate my words, and would look pretty funny in pictures. I know that lately I've been asking a lot of you with my invisalign treatment - all 17 trays to date of them. I also know that it's taking a lot out of you as I realized when I foudn you were the slightest bit loose at lunch time. I have to admit, sometimes ...

It's funny I've always wondered if my friends (and others) in the dental profession were fixated on teeth in general and noticed how crooked my teeth were. People have always been polite in general about them and the only comments I had ever gotten prior to getting braces were from my family and for the most they were out of kindness (ie. my mom really encouraged me to straighten them to improve my dental health). Having said that, since getting my braces, they've really come out of the woodwork ...

So tray 15 ended rather abruptly as it had split on day 11 of my wearing the tray. I'm not too down about it though because I managed to move my next appointment up a bit and am back on track with regards to my original finish time again. I still don't know how I can be potentially done in two trays but I'll wait and see. Tray 16 has left me pretty sore so that may be a sign that Snaggy my little crossbite tooth is finally going to line up with the others!

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