So, here I am on day 14, no ulcers at all and I'm only putting wax on 2 area's which I just seem to be quite aware of today-so I'm protecting them before they get sore and become ulcers! Also, the last bracket on my upper, back, right tooth (the 4 back brackets are metal)-where the wire pokes out, will always have wax on as it skewers my cheek, because the wire seems longer than on the other 3 back brackets . Must make sure its as short as the others when I return in......2 weeks for a wire change!!!
As I understand it from some younger colleagues, who are only a few years out of their teenage braces, some people get used to the braces really quickly and don't need wax after the first week, and others will need to put wax on different brackets, depending on whats digging in, for the whole of their treatment! I accept I am probably one of the latter! But I can cope with that!! I'm not even needing the mouth gaurd at home now-only put it in if something feels uncomfortable-to avoid sore bits and ulcers because it's definitely easier than wax, but can still not be used in public :( ! But I'm still wearing the mouthgaurd at night-The first time I didn't think I needed it-I did!! Woke in the morning with quite a few sore places-probably because you squash your cheeks onto your braces when you lay on your face!!!
So food wise, I'm eating everything at home! OK so not chewing gum, or toffee etc, but pretty much everything else! It's still not pretty as it gets stuck in between my braces, but at home or close friends houses-I'm happy to dash to the loo and brush it away! I still would only eat something I can break up and put in my mouth, suck, swallow (sandwiches/pasta etc)or liquid food (soup or, er, soup) whilst out! It's definitely the chewing which distributes the food round the brackets and wires and in between the brackets! But crusty bread and soup at home is fine!!UNTIL my first attempt at pizza and garlic bread! I was quite happily munching on my thin crust domino pizza-the bases are quite crispy....and I felt a little click, ignored it, finished the meal and went off to brush my teeth and noticed one of the brackets was coming away from my tooth at the bottom-bugger!!!It's the lowere right side next to the metal bracket. And its not one that I fiddled with the elastic on!! So, I guess I should have eaten it with a knife and fork and shouldn't be crunching crispy pizza!! Oh well, lesson learnt. So I called the dentist today and he's on a course today-bugger again!! So I'm waiting for a call back from the receptionist to find out when I can go in and get it re-stuck!! Of course today is friday, so if he doesn't go back to the office today-guess I'll have to wait till monday or tuesday-typical!!
Now, my second biggest disaster has become my favourite discovery!! I know that these braces cannot stain-so the ortho said and the blogs say-THEY DO!! However, after lots of reading-there are apparently tiny little elastics that encircle each bracket to keep the wire in its grove, in the bracket! It's the elastics that stain, NOT the bracket-phew! So, I had a lovely curry, went off to brush and floss and thought ARGHHHHHH-3 of my front brackets are very orange!! Brushed a bit more-faded to yellow!! And I cannot change them from that colour-which is pretty grim!! So, I know that when I go back in 2 weeks-they'll be changed-however, I though-maybe.....................I could take them off and clean them?!!! So I can see where the elastic sits on the wire and then encircles the bracket (now they're stained). So I pulled away at the side of the elastic with my finger nail, hooked a floss picker under it and gently managed to ping it off!! Yay!! Scrubbed it, bleached and oxy actioned it!! Still yellow!! Booooooooooooooooooo!! Then I though-hmmmmmmmm-maybe I could swap it with another band?? (after rinsing it A LOT) So I pinged the 5th right one off (the one next to the last bracket which is metal) and had a go at putting it on my front tooth! I hooked it round the bottom-kept it in place with my finger nail and used the floss picker to hook it back up over the bracket! Job done!! Beautiful invisible bracket again-yay!! So then I swapped some more! Now obviously I shouldn't really be fiddling with these and technically I can only do this once more as there are only 6 brackets you can't really see when I smile/talk!
However, ........................I googled the elastics and found someone in the US selling 500 for £5.00 with £2.00 postage on eBay (Oh my god!! They actually do Hello Kitty shaped elastics AND glow in the dark ones!!!) seems pretty reasonable to me and means I don't have to panic about how much tomato related soup and pasta I've been consuming at work/in public-or how much curry I consume! Can just change the elastic-YAY!!!
So, the progress of the teeth!!On the Left are 26th June-the day they went on! On the right are day 14! That snaggle tooth is definitely on the move-woo hooooo!! I'm also pretty sure my centre bottom teeth are closer to NOT being overlapped now-yay and the tooth which is causing the most angulation on the bottom-has definitely moved as there's less of an angle!!
Anna x
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