Thoughts After The Flipper

I just feel really awesome. It amazes me what straightening teeth can do for confidence. I feel more confident talking to people now especially since my front tooth hole was covered with a flipper. I just can't explain how extremely happy I am. But to be honest here the first few days it took me awhile to get used to. My teeth look so straight it was hard for me to except that they are my teeth and that they look good on my face. It looks great but at first I struggled to smile and feel comfortable, I am still struggling to talk with out a wistlely or slisspy voice the Ss and Ts are a struggle and I sound like a goof ball but I am sure I will get used to it like I did with my expander and will soon start talking normally again. Here is a side by side (I just had to) of my teeth at the start and now. My thoughts? JUST WOW! MY teeth look so long and I couldn't even rest my jaw at the start. I can't believe I lived like that for a good portion of my teen and early 20s. I just wished that I was able to have afforded these braces sooner.

TODAY! TODAY! TODAY!

It is a great day! A great day for a front tooth to fill my smile and make me feel like less of a Jack-o-lantern. My appointment began at 12:10 pm and I was grinning ear to ear. My last holeless grin for awhile. The tooth was glued in and then for extra measure tied down. I kind of feel like I am Nanny McPhee since the tooth seems to be really close to my lip I feel like I have one really big and fake tooth just chilling there. I also feel like I sound like Nanny McPhee. The good news? It doesn't look like Nanny McPhee yay! So can I get some drumroll please? Introducing my new and improved smile!

Did I Hear You Correctly?

Mr. Orthodontist did I hear you correctly or are you just pulling my leg?
I just completed another ortho visit. The last few visits have been routine and I stopped blogging about it because there just wasn't much going on and I have 2 kids now so that also contributes to my lack of time for....well...anything. Today was just the same as the last appointment but then my orthodontist began working on stepping out some molars (please forgive me I don't exactly remember which ones he stepped out. Come on I am not the orthodontist here! :D) I asked him very quietly if I could have my front tooth back. I just knew what his answer would be it was routine for me to ask and his routine to tell me no and why he couldn't. To be honest I didn't expect him to say "YES" but that is what I heard and I had to ask him "are you sure"? I am so excited I can barely contain myself. I get it put in next week and you bet I will be posting a picture of it here! :D For now you get to enjoy the last toothless picture me because I haven't shared a picture in awhile and because I can.

Bummed...Ortho Appointment Related

You probably already guessed why I am bummed. If you guessed that I still don't have my flipper in you were right! Today the ortho reposition two brackets in my upper arch. They reposition my right lateral incisor and right canine I am assuming it's to get them to lift up a little more. * By the way I recently noticed that my Iphone flips the pictures around that I have been posting on here so I am sure some of you may think I am very silly and don't know my left and right. I promise you that I do! I am way to lazy to fix it on all the pictures in this blog right now so I am just going to keep going with it. Sorry if it annoys anyone. * My next appointment is 9 weeks away and there is a chance my ortho will give me my flipper then. He told me to just keep asking...grrr. He also said that he is waiting for a stronger wire to give me my flipper. Ortho dude can you please just glue it in and call it a day? Anyway my baby boy is due in the next 5-8ish weeks and I am hoping sooner rather than later this momma is so over being pregnant. At least he won't remember me being toothless if I can keep my teeth in during pictures on his birthday. My daughter on the other hand has begun to notice and asks me on a daily basis where my tooth is. I am honest with her, I told her the Orthodontist took it from me and will give it back when he chooses too.

Below is a picture of my teeth today. They are coming right along.

Great Question Brought Me Back!

Again I have been slacking on my blog until today when I was asked a really good question by a reader on my blog.
First I would like to start with an update since it has been awhile. I had an ortho appointment earlier in the week and I do believe my ortho is playing a game with me because I still haven't gotten my flipper in haha. I am sure when I do get it in I will post here immediately but I was just a little bummed that I still am toothless. I guess it can make for a great halloween costume. Anyway my bite was back to being crossbite a few months ago and my ortho had me wear an elastic band on one side and after three months of doing this it is finally correcting. I do have to say that I was not very good a wearing that band for the first two months and I wore it like a saint the last month in hopes that he would give me my tooth at my last appointment but no that didn't happen. Good news was that there maybe an end in sight the ortho said I maybe able to get my braces off by the end of the year! WOOHOO! crossing my fingers that this will be true and I can begin the process of getting my implant for the front tooth put in.  Now for the question that had brought me back here. I was recently asked if I had noticed any change in my face specifically my cheek bones after my surgery. My answer was not really. But then again it could just be that I see my face in the mirror everyday and maybe I just got used to the change? If it did change it had to have been minor because I don't feel like I look different. I decided I would do a side by side and post it here maybe it will help give a visual of the change the surgery may have done to my face.


before in 2010

after in 2013

 Now after looking at the two photos I don't see much change at all. My lips look a little thinner and my jaw looks skinner but my cheek bones look the same to me. I am sure results are different for everyone though.