I had my ortho appointment yesterday to move to tray 12. (22T/14B trays needed in total.) Anyway, I thought this was going to be a quick visit just to get another set of trays, but the tech told me that I would need filing for the first time. I saw my paperwork and sure enough, it showed 2 filings before tray 12, 1 before tray 13, and 1 before tray 15. So my ortho comes over, checks my teeth and says he isn't going to file because I have normal spacing between them and he may just file at the next
I changed to tray #4 last night. These seem to fit much better than the previous tray and my teeth aren't very sore at all. They snap into place easily... no having to bend them to snap onto the other side like the last ones. They would be my easiest trays if it weren't for me having to change to extra strong elastics this time for my bite. It's extremely hard to talk... like the first day you get your trays. Anyways, I just wanted to check in with these trays. I'm trying to stay up to date on my
Well I went back to the ortho today to get my attachments put on.... 10 top and 9 bottom. I was in the chair with my mouth forced open for almost 2 hours! The appointment was only suppose to be an hour, but I guess that many attachments took longer than they thought. They also installed hooks for the elastics, which I didn't even know I was getting at this point. I was originally told it would be done later in the treatment. Anyway, they had me try to take out the trays by myself while I was there
I switched to my 3rd trays on Wednesday night and I have to say, they aren't that bad at all. Of course these have the spaces for the buttons on the top, which take some getting use to and they make my braces FAR more visable. I get my buttons attached on March 4. I guess the rest of my year will suck.. lol.
On a side note, my bottom trays will be done in July. Does anyone know if they will go ahead and remove my bottom buttons while my top ones finish their trays? I would think
Well, I switched to my 2nd trays last night and I really had forgotten how tight they start out. I was just so use to being able to pop them in and out and they weren't tight anymore so I would forget I even had them in. Of course this set has the bump outs for the attachments on the bottom set which is hard to get adjusted to. My ortho's office said they do that so you can get use to the feel before you actually have the buttons put on your teeth. I have 8 spaces for buttons on the bottom and God
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