It’s been a hard day’s night I have known for a long time that I clench my jaw when I am a bit on edge and that I do tend to do this in my sleep – but if ever I needed proof this is it! A couple of times in the past month I […]
Adult Braces Journey – Feeling Good
Hmmm….well it only took about a week and my tongue did in fact get used to the buttons rubbing on it ceaselessly…go figure! I stopped poking continuously at the elastics with the tip of my tongue, which was nice too, (the novelty just wore off). My teeth adjusted to the extra pressures of the wire […]
Adult Braces Journey – The Joy of Buttons
I have now had my upper braces for 6 weeks and it is time for a wire change, little did I know what other delights were in store! It was decided that a few of my teeth needed to have ‘buttons’ applied to them. Small metal blobs that really are just like buttons, and they […]
Adult Braces Journey – No Chewing Gum!
I have read on other forums advice that you can use chewing gum on sore areas if you have no wax available, and this was exactly the predicament I found myself in one morning. I was at my son’s school for an end of year performance and the rear brackets had been rubbing on my […]
Adult Braces Journey – 3 Weeks with Upper Braces
It is so interesting to feel (and see) the movements in my teeth. When the wire was fitted it was surprisingly crooked as it wove it’s way through the brackets that Dr Levinson had placed. Now just a few weeks later, the wire is almost a perfect straight line. Because of the movement away from […]
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