Progress

I've been feeling a bit frustrated with what I thought was the lack of progress on my upper teeth. So I did a comparison this morning. I've had the upper braces for 6 months now, can you believe it's been that long?!

Holy crap! Other than the obvious need for whitening my teeth look WAY better now!*

A few weeks ago I threw my head back laughing and right away, Brad got all serious and said, 'Uh....you have perfect teeth now?!' It's really subtle the way my teeth have moved, but actually you can really tell when you look at them from below too - they are a perfect U-shape.

My bottom teeth are still pretty junky and I won't torture you with pictures. I've only had those braces for two months.

You should see the size of the wire I'm wearing on my top teeth now. It's thick and it's also shaped like a square in profile, rather than circular. They have to jam it in pretty hard when they're installing it. Good times.

The girls in my ortho's office always try to talk me into coloured elastics and I'm actually really tempted because I love the idea of it. If I was 16 I'd be all over it. I tried white elastics on the bottoms and I hated them. They actually didn't stain or fade either, it wasn't that. I felt like they drew more attention. I tried light pink for 10 seconds before I had her take them off. The latest suggestion was a metallic dark purple.

My orthodontist goes beyond trying to talk me into it - he flat out makes fun of me for choosing the grey elastics every time.


*You can't whiten your teeth when you're wearing braces - duh.