Friday, February 16, 2018

Week 45

How are we all enjoying the Winter Olympics so far? Frankly, I'm not much of a sports person, but I'm all over the Olympics, every time. It's just so...fascinating to watch all those athletes compete for the gold, silver and bronze medals, and it's just simply amazing the feats that the human body can do. That, and watching the "rivalry" play out between the countries. Obviously this year is a little more political than usual, being the whole Korea thing, but so far, I'm enjoying it quite a lot! My TV's stuck on the Olympic channel now, and it will remain that way until the Closing Ceremony is done.

(The Canadian Women's Curling team could be doing a whole lot better, though. But we're not doing too badly in terms of medal count, so it's all good. Here's to hoping we cinch another gold in hockey, both men's and women's!)

Alright, enough Olympics talk. Let's talk about my braces. Not that there's really much to talk about. These finishing wires are no doubt not the most exciting of wires. They just don't seem to do be doing a whole lot, if they're doing anything at all. I mean, other than creating the gap in between my lower right central and lateral incisor, the finishing wires haven't done a whole lot of tangible things that I can directly observe and feel. The elastics are still a pain in the ass, but I'll do anything to get the braces off faster, and if elastics are part of that equation, then so be it. I don't think I feel my bite changing, and I definitely do not see any teeth movement. I think the gap in between my lower right central and lateral incisors is slowly but surely closing, but I am not too sure. When I flossed it just now, the gap feels little tighter than before...but the gap is still definitely there. Not really sure what the finishing wires and my current elastics configuration are doing, but I guess slow and steady wins the race, right?

Week 45.
My lower right. As you can see, the gap in between my lower right central and lateral incisor is still there, and those two teeth still seem to be bit off alignment.

Friday, February 9, 2018

Month 10 and Week 44

Another week, another month....and the Winter Olympic is here upon us once again! I have yet to watch the opening ceremony, but I've recorded it, so I will be watching it tonight. And go Team Canada!

The gap between my lower right central and lateral incisor is still there, and I'm pretty sure those two teeth look more crooked than straight, when compared to before. But I know that with braces, sometimes, teeth get more crooked before they're straightened out, to make room and improve bite, so I'm not worried about the gap. It's just a bit of a minor annoyance, that's all. I can't really tell what these finishing wires are doing, because I personally don't see much of movements (unless you count the gap that developed between my lower right central and lateral incisor). But then again, from my research, these wires aren't really supposed to produce great big movements anyway. They're there to tweak things, to settle the teeth, and to act as a brace for them before the wires and brackets all come off. So I suppose it makes sense that I'm not seeing any big noticeable teeth changes as I did for the first few months of my braces journey.

It's really a little boring when there isn't much to report on, but I guess that's the way this is going to go from now on. I mean, I'm happy that for the most part, my teeth have straightened out, and are more or less aligned. But on the other hand, it's a little...not exactly discouraging, but just plain boring to not see any noticeable movement. I guess the silver lining to all this is that the big heavy duty work is done, and we're just working on the details now.

Before. Oh how things have changed....
Month 9
Month 10
Week 44

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Week 43

I've been trying to be good about posting relatively on time, but the stupid internet at my place doesn't want to cooperate with my plan. It randomly goes out at random times, and it magically goes back on whenever it feels like it. It's super annoying, is what it is. Hopefully the tech that is coming tomorrow can fix the issue. I mean, I'm not paying for shitty spotty-sometimes-it-works internet over here. I pay a good decent amount of money for the internet, so the least I can expect is for the damn thing to work consistently.

Well it's working now, obviously, so I will try to blog.

Not that there's much to really blog about other than it is now 43 weeks into my braces journey. Which mans 9 more weeks until it's a year since I got these suckers placed on. Which is a big milestone, as far as milestones go. I mean, it's a year. A year of my teeth moving and my bite changing. It certainly doesn't feel like it's been a year, but I guess time really does fly when one is having fun...or not. Time just flies, regardless.

These finishing wires doesn't seem to really move teeth fast, so as a result, I haven't really seen much of any movements. The elastics are still there, doing whatever the heck it is that they're doing (what that is, I have no clue). The gap between my lower right central and lateral incisor seemed to have closed a tiny little bit, but there's still noticeably a gap there when I floss. Overall, my teeth really doesn't look all that different from last week. Or the week before. But I do trust that my orthodontist knows what he's doing, because I sure as heck have no idea what's supposed to be happening right now, other than we're working on my bite.

These finishing wires certainly are the least exciting wires out of the wires I've had. But on the bright side, I'm one step closer to being done.

Week 43

Life after braces