Oh my gosh...

Countdown

Phase III

The Pendulum is in...

gosh... I guess my teeth really are crooked... look at that!

I now have this lovely device fixed to the roof of my mouth. My speech is funny, it's hard to drink a smoothie from a straw, and I feel like I'm slowly turning into a robot.

I'll have this for the next 8 weeks and then I get full braces (as long as my molars obey and move they way they should).

But there are some positives:
1 - I won't have braces when I'm in Zoe's wedding
2 - No more stupid spacers
3 - I've quit biting my nails
4- I don't have any sort of dental appointments for 8 weeks! I've been at least once a week since the beginning of March... this is amazing :-)

... to be continued ...

Phase II

Well... I just got home from the orthodontist... please notice.... there are still 2 blue spacers in my mouth :-(

One of my crowns was having issues and they had to glue it back down and decided to space out my teeth for 1 more week.

You can't tell... but around the other molars are lovely metal rings that they glued to my teeth. They have fun little things sticking out of them that rub against my cheeks. Next Monday I will get the Pendulum glued to the roof of my mouth and fixed to these rings.

They said they are going to work on moving my molars back before they put the braces on...
so I don't know what the time frame for that is yet.
Back to smoothies and soft foods I go.

... to be continued ...