A beautiful smile is always in style: Round 21
Did you notice that? I’m using digits, now that we’re past the twentieth appointment, however it’s only been 15 months since all this started.
And guess WHAT??!
[You say, WHAT?!]
My impacted canine tooth is 85% in! Not, you know, “grown in”, but successfully pulled in artificially. Doc was very happy about that. It’s still not ready to have the bracket yanked off (rather, I’m still not ready, apparently, to endure the wrenching pain of having the bracket yanked off and re-cemented in a better position) so he just laid the wire ON TOP of the canine’s bracket, weird as it sounds, so that the tooth will get pushed down even more, aided by the dang latex elastics I’m still wearing. And now I have to wear elastics on the OTHER canines, too, “because,” explained the doc, “your smile is tilting to one side. So you have to wear elastics on your opposite canines unless you want to smile like this” [tilts head to one side, grinning].
My smile is tilting to one side?
“I.,” I asked the 10-year-old I was babysitting, “Is my smile tilting to one side?”
I. looked up from her book and inspected me, grinning like an idiot.
“Oh, yes. It is.”
Baaaaaah!
The good news is, I’m “in the home stretch,” he says. The hills are alive, the rainbow is in sight, we’ve got the kids and we’re about to finally cross the border. Something like that. I anticipate this means these lovely, expensive, ceramic adult braces will be off, as scheduled, in the fall — not in enough time to attend several September weddings, but at least I’ll be able to chew the chicken or beef entree with all my teeth precisely aligned.
This experience has been, by all accounts, not even kidding, excellent. If you’re in the Boston area and are looking for an awesome (albeit cheeky) adult orthodontist, talk to me.