rubber band time...

so whenever anyone would ask me when i was getting my braces off i would just say "i don't know, i'm suppossed to have on for year", but i knew my teeth were moving slow because the orthodontist told me that every time i went there. so, at my june checkup, i finally got up the nerve so say "so, do you think these will be coming off in august (the one year mark), and the girl told me i have a long way to go, and i'll be lucky if i get them off by the new year :-(

so at my july appointment i got rubber bands! ahh. i wonder how many different configurations of rubber bands i'll have this time around (last time it was at least 5). the thing is, i dont' think i wore them all that much when i was a kid, but they're not bothering me that much at all. i even have to keep them in when i eat and its really not that bad! i've already eat starburst, a bagel and a chicken cheesesteak with them in! these are the normal rubber bands that are on both sides and just go from a back bottom molar to a top canine, so they don't get in the way that much, i had some more intersting configurations when i was a kid which were really annoying.




so here are my top teeth, the gaps are almost closed from the extractions!



here is my bite, as you can see there is no more open bite in the front! the problem is my back molars don't touch when i bite down now, and i still have a cross bite. and i don't know if that one front tooth sticks out more, or it just looks like that beacuse the bottom tooth under it is further back.




this is the first time that incisor got tied into a wire! oh speaking of wires, i had to get a new wire on the top this time (not mentioned prior to appointment which means i had no good drugs with me to take!), but anyway, first off i had to get this special wire in TURQUOISE because they didn't have silver, and second off, there's those huge bends in it (made by the orthodontist). the rubber bands hook onto the bend, but i think the forces from that bend will close up the gaps that developed between those two teeth.

so when all this was going on, there actually was a decent looking 20ish male who came on his motorcycle att the othodontist. he was just getting his retainer though, so i guess i really don't have any chance of running into him again at the orthodontist.