Tales of a snaggle-toothed bride to be!

I could be wrong but I think I've finally recovered from my wedding day festivities as evident from my desire to do laundry, organize our house and getting around to writing up this post.

The wedding itself went surprisingly smoothly. While there were a few glitches in the morning, it got better and better as the day went on. And what a long day it was. The girls and I started getting ready at about 6:30 am, the tea ceremony started just after 9:00am, followed by a buddhist ceremony ...

Total cost of my wedding $$$$$
Cost of my photographer $$$$
Cost of invisalign treatment $$$$
Cost of whitening gel: $$
Being to smile confidently in my pictures and all day long: priceless

So glad I decided to go through with it.

Will post pictures when I get a chance.

Considering how sore I was after tray 14, it didn't really result in much movement.

For the most part, Dr. A seemed to be pleased with how things were progressing with my teeth. The one sore point was that I was hoping to move on to tray 15 by the wedding but given that I wanted to do some whitening (take home kit to be used with my trays) before the wedding and was getting my attachments off in between, he suggested I keep tray 14 on. I have to admit I was a bit disappointed. ...

Yikes! 16 more days until the wedding.

I have to admit, I've been a bit bummed that my teeth aren't straighter by now. Having said that, they are way way straighter than when I first started and based on our viewing of our engagement photos today, they seem to be camera ready too. I don't have that awful shadow where my snaggle tooth is anymore, which to me is worth the price of my entire treatment.

Allow me a moment of vanity here but I used to think I just ...

Sorry I've gotten so boring with these updates! I've been a busy girl. Had my staggette this weekend and work has been nutty not to mention all of this wedding stuff that needs to be taken care of.

Pictures here

I'm a just a bundle of contradictions lately.

In the mornings when I look at my teeth they look pretty good to me but in the evenings when I floss and the light is a bit harsher I don't think they look quite as straight as I would've hoped for the wedding. I guess we'll have to wait and see how the next couple of trays move my teeth.

As my teeth were falling into place I was wondering if I had unusually large front teeth but now that things have progressed further, ...

Tray 12 update with pics

This past tray was mostly uneventful. My teeth are just the slightest bit straighter. Snaggy seems to be just a little more in line with the others. Actually, what I recently realized is that Snaggy is in the right place and doesn't need to move, it's just my canine and front incisor that need to move back a bit.

I've noticed a bit of staining around some of my attachments and am planning to fit in a cleaning in addition to the whitening ...

My teeth are slowly moving into place as the countdown to the wedding begins. It's less two months away! And while there has been a lot of progress and I've gotten so many positive comments on my teeth lately (!!), I'd really love for Snaggy, my little crossbite tooth, to move in line with the others soon. You know, he just looks so lonely back there.

Now that I'm on a 12 day schedule instead of my original 14, I'm trying to keep my trays in as long as possibly but it's gotten ...

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I've been pretty excited about the last few trays. It feels like every day my teeth are straighter than they've ever been and each time I change trays, they get even straighter. Much more satisfying than the first 7 trays or so which were very much of the "it gets worse before it gets better" variety. I'm smiling more and more in pictures I've noticed and I'm beginning to get a better sense of what my teeth actually look like. Not that I didn't know before but I can now make out the ...

I was hoping that giving the boy at the Mac counter my best big-eyed sad puppy dog impression would help me get the data from my hard drive back but I must have been wrong... because it's all gone now. All gone It's as if the little Macbook they handed back to me was mine yet not mine, like a vampire who's body was with me but whose soul was long gone. Serves me right for not backing up more often I suppose.

Pictures of trays 9 and 10 still on their way because despite the ...

"whirrrr pssh whirrrr pssh..."

That dear reader is the sound that my trusty Macbook is making right now (it won't even turn on anymore). It looks like I will have to bring it into the Apple Store to have it repaired when I get a chance. Despite how much my PC using fiance usually teases me about my Mac, I must have looked so lost and forlorn about my its current condition that he has been entirely sympathetic about it.

Honestly, the sudden onset of whatever ...

I am and have always been a self proclaimed master of the no teeth smile. Actually, I take that back, I've tried to master the no teeth smile to varying levels of success throughout my life. Sometimes it looks ok, sometimes it looks like I'm fanged or either have a tooth missing or a very large gap (due to snaggy the crossbite tooth) and the rest of the time I look somewhat unnatural and self-conscious.

Consequently when I got my braces, I was really excited but a bit anxious at ...

So out with tray 8 and on to tray 9 tomorrow (or maybe tonight). Don't tell Dr. A this but I was thinking about cheating and changing trays one night early. I am going to my trial dinner at the reception site on Tuesday and wanted to thoroughly enjoy it without having to mind sore teeth. I figure this is about the only time I'll be able to enjoy the meal since I probably won't have a chance to at my actual wedding. I'm otherwise very compliant when it comes to my trays, really I am!!
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