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It's been five hours since I got my Trans Palatal Expander AND the Forsus spring. It's different!

The intent of Forsus is to bring the right side of my mouth forward (and, I think, a bit to the left)
to basically give me a good bite on my virtually-non-existent-bite-ridden right side of my mouth.

I expect I'll adapt easily enough to the TPA (pic on my photo page of what one looks like) but right now, YUCK, it, along with Forsus is making me feel pretty gaggy. ...

Today is my six month anniversary.

I last wrote a blog report on Feb 20th. Since then I had my third adjustment two days later on Feb 22nd and just yesterday April 5th my fourth adjustment.

In no particular order here are some things I've been experiencing since these last adjustments.

* I've changed dentists*. My new one is just down the hall from my Ortho and came recommended. This will make it easy for me to coordinate my three month tooth cleanings ...

Now that I've got your attention. Things aren't SO bad I suppose. I've been dying to use that Frank Zappa reference (Google the phrase you'll see the album cover) which pretty much sums ups how the inside of my cheeks feel at times. Let me explain.

I've posted a few questions in the Dental Do-dads part of Archwired recently and had zero replies. Sigh. I thought they were solid queries, especially the one about proxa brushes (they do a great job but seem rough!) I may have gone a ...