Eat All The Things!!!

I gotz muh braces off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep... that's right.  I got my braces off!!  I am trying not to get too happy about it since it's just a little temporary blip in the grand scheme of brace jail, but I am definitely going to enjoy it while I have it.  Today is a week they've been off (I know.... bad blogger again!).  I got put in essix retainers, which at first were bad after being unbanded without them for 24hrs, but now I am starting to get used to them.  I think they're giving me  headaches.  They're a pain in the ass to get off my teeth.  But, I think I'll get used to all of that too.  After 19 months of junk on my teeth, it definitely feels weird to run my tongue along smooth chompers!  And the gummy bears....and popcorn....and nuts!!  Oh m!!  They've all been fabulous!!

So, braces are supposed to be quick when you remove them.  About 15 minutes.  Mine took 45-50 minutes.  The lady working on me at my new ortho said she's never seen somebody use this much cement, which I wasn't surprised to hear because both my dentist and prosthodontist have both said there is a ton of cement when they went to do my cleanings.  I think I've had a few other specialists comment on how much was there too.  They couldn't even get my molar bands off.  They had to literally saw them off my teeth instead of pop them off.  And then there was SSSSOOOO much freaking cement everywhere.  Even up under my gumlines on normal bracketed teeth.  My gums weren't happy after this to say the least.  They are finally settling down now to their normal pink instead of being all red and nasty looking.  Anyway, I think this ortho was glad to remove the hot mess that was in my mouth.... maybe as glad as I was for him to take it out too. 

Brace free! ........for now.

And that is that.  They're off!  I'm in retainers now and totally in a wait and see mode.  My ortho took a bunch of scans and did the impressions for the retainers the day he took the braces off.  One of the scans was to evaluate me for invisalign.  I won't hold my breath if that is an option for me, but we'll see.  Otherwise, they're going to run all those simulations on what the possible results would be with all the different options we have to move forward from here.  Kind of cool!  I definitely did not get anything like that with my first surgery.  I don't even think my surgeon and ortho really talked much at all let alone do cool stuff like this!  So, we'll wait on the scans to come back and I think they are looking to get me, my surgeon, prosthodontist, and ortho all together to pow wow over our options.  I'll probably get to enjoy this short break until early Jan if I had to guess, and then it's back to braces jail!  Oh well..... eat all the foods while I can!!!

Mmmmm....how I miss gummy candy!!!

ppppppooooopppppcccccoooorrrrnnn!!!!!