Is it too late to change my decision to have them on?!

Alright so, as I mentioned previously in my last blog... I went in on Monday, January 26th to get the rest of my "grill" put in. Oh boy... I think the reality of what I will be going through has finally set in.

The dental assistant had a lot of trouble finding and fitting the correct anchor size for my metal bands and so what should have taken 10 minutes...ending up taking like 40. She was definitely ripping my mouth apart. I just remember at one point that I looked down at my bib and there was blood all over it, hahaha. Yeah, I'm laughing now, but when I look back on it... it was pretty gross.

So anyhow, the orthodontist came around after the assistant was done fitting me for sizes, and he proceeded to glue those suckers in and get me all wired up (literally). Afterwards, I tried to handle the pain of that strange and incredibly achy soreness that I felt, but eventually gave into the torture and completely jacked myself up on ibuprofen, hehe. Here I am 3 days later definitely still having trouble with adjusting to my new "steel-y" mouth. I went grocery shopping the night before and found myself to be cruising through the more mushy and easy-to-swallow food isles all over again.

Hopefully I'll be up and eating everything in my path again shortly..at least until I have to go in to get the braces tightened.

While I was on my way out, the orthodontist mentioned that he'd probably have me start getting the teeth pulled within the next couple months. He needs to pull from 1-3 (depending on what he believes to be the best course of action to get me that "oh-so-beautiful smile") in order to make space for my teeth. Apparently, while most people have U-shaped mouths...I got lucky [sarcasm] and ended up with a V-shaped one...which left me with inadequate space for all my teeth. That, plus I'll probably also have to get my wisdoms removed within the next year too.

Oh boy, I just re-read my last paragraph and am grudingly coming to the realization that the next 2 years are going to be.. not so fun. This brings me to remember that the other day I was joking around with a friend and said, "If I go back to the orthodontist to get my brackets taken off, do you think I'll get a full refund?!..I dont think I can handle it!" Ha, as much as I don't want to do this, I do at the same time..so I suppose I'll stick with it.

Anyhow, I've provided a photo of what I look like with my full set of braces with my light pink ties for all of you to enjoy! I hope you don't get too grossed out, haha~

Until that dreaded next time, Binna.



Photo taken on 1-26-2009.
(I think the wires make it so much more obviously crooked, sigh.)