It's been a few weeks....

Since the last time I posted here is what has happened...I went to the ortho and got a new archwire as well as a plastic tie on my front four teeth. They also took the hardware off of one of the adult teeth that is growing in. Yay! Since then my gap has closed quite a bit...this I am very excited about. But one thing I noticed is that my left front tooth has moved back into place already and is lined up correctly with my bottom front teeth. But my right front tooth is the one that is not lined up and is probably the one that needs to move in order for the gap to close. I don't know if this is normal or not but you can tell by my pictures that its not even on both sides.

Gap!!

I think I have finally come to the point that I HATE this GAP!! Yesterday my husband and I were looking for a new car and the salesman asked if I was his daughter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do I really look THAT much younger with a huge gap in my teeth?!?! My hubby is six years older than me but he doesn't even look old enough to have a child that old, which I am assuming he thought I was 12-13...I don't know. I wanted to slap him. Needless to say, we did NOT buy a car from him. UG!!

Running out of rubberbands...

I am running out of rubberbands...my ortho is supposed to mail me more. Anyways, It has been 1 month and 15 days since my surgery, 26 days since I have stopped expanding and 21 days since I got braces. I have noticed change but you know, it just never goes fast enough. But I guess I am not complaining too much at this point.

Sitting, Waiting, Wishing

Finally!

I feel like I am finally starting to see a difference in my gap. It might not be noticable in this picture but I have been measuring it with the tip on my eye shadow brush. When I first got the braces I was able to put the whole brush in the gap and move it back and forth and hit the sides of my teeth. Now it wont even fit in the gap...woo hoo!! I think it has moved because of the rubberbands that I have been putting over the brackets. I started out with only one and moved to two rubberbands...it also helps hide the gap a little. Im very excited that it has finally started to shift!!

1 month post op and nothings changed

Im a little disappointed because I am not seeing any noticeable movement with my gap. I was sure that I would start to see some difference after braces but it has been a week and nothing. A couple of days ago I decided to take one of my rubberbands and put it around my two front brackets and then I started noticing some shifting but only a teeny tiny bit. Anyways, guess I am just playing the waiting game now.

I was confused....

I went to the ortho on Thursday and I thought I was getting braces on the bottom....well I was confused cause it turns out I was only getting two bands on the bottoms and two brackets on the top. Which I am pretty happy about because they can start moving that darn gap together. It is now Sunday and I stopped expanding last Monday. I do not see a difference at all in my gap. Also, I figured that I would be in at least a little pain from the braces but I am not, at all...which makes me a little concerned that they didn't make it tight enough to do anything. I don't go back for another 4 weeks and I don't want to just waste that time wearing something thats not doing anything. I also got start on rubberbands. These don't really bother me much at all except the inside of the bottom bands rubs my tounge like crazy. I will post again in a couple of days...hopefully there will be a difference then.