Ouch.
I feel like I've been coasting, orthodontically-speaking, for the past couple months since I got a reprieve from rubber bands for a while and the only apparent movement was my bottom right canine being chained to a bottom right molar. Yesterday's appointment changed everything.
They put a thicker wire through my bottom braces and activated the living h%ll out of it. Dr. Izadi also set up a complicated tangle of rubber bands on both sides of my mouth that make me feel like my jaw has been wire shut. I can't open my teeth at all when the bands are in. Thankfully, I have to strap up like that only at bedtime, but the soreness continues. I ate six Advil in four hours last night. I'm so sorry, my liver; I'll miss you.
This will be worth it in less than a year (please please please let it be only another eight months). For the time being, though, I need to whine a tiny bit.
They put a thicker wire through my bottom braces and activated the living h%ll out of it. Dr. Izadi also set up a complicated tangle of rubber bands on both sides of my mouth that make me feel like my jaw has been wire shut. I can't open my teeth at all when the bands are in. Thankfully, I have to strap up like that only at bedtime, but the soreness continues. I ate six Advil in four hours last night. I'm so sorry, my liver; I'll miss you.
This will be worth it in less than a year (please please please let it be only another eight months). For the time being, though, I need to whine a tiny bit.