And the transformation begins.

I am posting these out of order so anyone who actually reads my blog will see my first change as the new glasses sitting on my face. Now, on to numero dos.


I made a tasty little dinner tonight. Not because it was what I wanted to eat, but because it was what I had to eat. I am also not sure how to get through this next week with Thanksgiving and all coming up. Let the following pictures do all the explaining.





Has anyone else been through this same process? This was a little crazy for me. At the same time, it could be a little fun to have a mouth brace like that to wear injunction with a freaky Halloween costume.





Next, I got to wait for 20 minutes like this while the orthodontist was finishing up with other people. Let's all remember how I was not about to lick my lips or move what so ever. A special prep had been put on my teeth. They had to stay completely dry (hence the fan blowing on me). Then he showed up and started gluing brackets all over my teeth. Not so bad.




The next part was the worst. They took out the spacers (rubber bands between my teeth) and put metal bands around my molars. My contacts are so tight that it was nearly impossible to get them around my teeth. There was a tool that she would push very hard on and I was to bite down on it. The idea is that by biting down, it would push that band down and around my teeth. However, she did not have the steadiest hands and her tool would slip and smack into my other teeth. OUCH!!!! It also was extremely painful to bite down on because my contacts were so tight.

End result, teeth with braces. A few of my teeth are so hillbilly (turned sideways and covering others) that they could not get a bracket on it. They will get their turn in a while after the others stop fighting over the space. One other annoying thing that the doc did was to put some bite buttons on the back side of my top front teeth. I have an over bite and when I closed my mouth the top teeth were resting on the braces of the lower teeth. NO GOOD. So he made two triangles on the back of my top teeth. This prevents the over bite from occurring. It also means that they are resting on the top of my lower teeth and no where in my mouth do any of my top teeth touch the bottom teeth. Any one ever tried to eat with out your teeth being able to touch? Hence the soup and cheese sami tonight. Wish me luck over the next two years!

P.S....I feel like any one that saw me more than two days ago will no longer recognize me. Yikes!