so my wire broke today, as i bit into an egg salad sandwhich on wheat. i didn't even have anything hard for breakfast, i had oatmeal and a sliced banana! so anyway, first the little clear tube that covers the wire came off and before i could think "what is this" the wire starts flopping around in my mouth! it snapped right after my first bicuspid, infront of the extraction. so since the wire is kinked in the back i couldn't pull forward to get it out, so i had to pull it out the back, which let me tell was extremely difficult since my 2nd molar is jammed up against the back of my mouth. it was especially gross trying to do this with reminents of egg salad still in my mouth...bleh.
so anyway i'm going tuesday to get a new wire.....i hope its not painful for a couple days like when the wire got put it because wednesday is my birthday!!! but in a way i kinda hope i get new wires on the top and bottom so my teeth start moving more, and they really have to do something to start closing up these extraction sites! i have barely any tooth surface to bite down on (because my molars have a cross bite and the front teeth dont' meet because of the open bite) so chewing and biting is pretty uncomfortable, and large pieces of food are constantly getting stuck in the extraction sites.
i def dont' remember braces being this difficult as a child! and to think of it, i really dont' remember running off to brush my teeth every time i ate something as a kid. did having food stuck in my teeth not bother me? and to top it all off, i had ZERO cavities the whole first time i had braces. guarantee i have like 7 next time i go to the dentist, which better not be till 2009 because as horizon informed today i have reached my dental maximum for the year. working for the government full time has such a great benefits package! (just had a $647.80 dental bill for extractions and one filling).
speaking of horizon, i nearly had a heart attack today! i got my orthodontic explination of benefits and it says its covering nothing! now i called up before this ordeal, as did my orthodontists office and they ensured coverage. the lady on the phone told me the claim my ortho sent in was "illegible". yeah...ok. more phone calls tomorrow...yay.
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