well nothing new or exciting happening in this camp. i had an adjustment last week wednesday and my usual oral hygienist was busy on some lucky son of a gun so i got one of the rest. quiet and only talking to each other in their language.
i'm not used to going for an adjustment and no conversation in between. so what they did first was to look at my elastics and the Dr. said he was very pleased with the results and that my bottom teeth only to move back a bit. I looked at the teeth in my bottom jaw and they are totally getting messed up becos of the elastics. i only noticed it today. my bottom teeth were always perfect until i started this treatment.
Anyway she was supposed to put a stainless steel wire but it didn't want to fit so she tried to fix it. by banging it or hitting it to make it fit. That hurt like a b.tch, lol. After significant 'discomfort' as they called it, she gave up and took it to put in a smaller wire.
Then We put the elastics and the Dr. told me to be strict with those. my teeth were really sensitive but coming back to normal except for the teeth on the left hand side. After this adjustment I was fed up and felt like I don't want to do this anymore!!!! this only happened to me once after i just been wearing the appliances for three days.
She was just not careful with me or talking me through it which i think made the entire process almost truamtic.
ok i'm off to replace my elastics... you all are looking good and laura just had surgery and jen is just about to. much more exctiting things happening with all of you.
3 comments:
That's a very funny post. Especially your politically correct term of “significant discomfort.” Talk about politically correct, Yay for Obama!
Hang in there with the pain. It's all for a good purpose, although I sometimes question what the adjustments are doing too. Mine just seem to move my teeth back and forth. (Move one gap, other gap opens, Close gap, previous gap opens.)
You can really feel the difference in people's hands. My ortho is very gentle, but the tech who does the setup work for him can be a bit rough. You can tell as soon as they touch your mouth how they're going to be.
Shame you didn't get the more friendly people, but you showed strength of character to cope and then this forum is a great place to let it all out!!!
Here's to the elastics working their magick and your teeth showing the benefits!
Take care!
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