The little gap that could! Choo choo! Need to keep that train movin! It's closing...slowly, but surely. The last image is a comparison with the day I got the incisor out around Jan 20th (left) and yesterday April 28th (right). There is some closure there, but the progress is slow. And rightfully so. My orthodontist is doing everything he can to move the teeth REALLY slow and avoid any more damage on my already severely damaged roots thanks to my first orthodontist. The only thing standing between me and surgery is the closure of this extraction space. I hate to be that patient that asks about timing, but for planning purposes, it needs to be asked. So, after 3 months, I finally asked. Doc said don't plan on surgery before December. I find it hard to believe that even at this slow rate it will take until December to have that closed up and my teeth surgery ready, but I'll take his word for it at this point. Just in case, I am stopping any travel plans as early as November. Another thing I asked is when the upper braces will be put on, which as far as I know was going to be closer to surgery, and he said expect end of June or into July. I figure they'll want to step me through the flex wires and on to the surgical wire, which will probably take 2 months alone, so with that timing, you would think surgery could be as early as fall, but who knows.
I thought feeling a smaller gap would be more noticeable, but it's not. What I can feel is the difference in my bite, and wowzers, does that feel odd. Some days I can really feel it shifting and teeth are coming down on other teeth where they shouldn't. The worst is when they feel tip to tip, but then quickly they settle in it seems. I can definitely see and feel my overbite and overjet getting bigger, which is exactly what they are going for by doing the extraction (can definitely see it in the one picture up there). Sucks. I feel like I have these giant buck teeth again, but I know it's all part of the plan. I wasn't biting in to much to begin with because my loose upper front teeth are sensitive and can't bite in to much, but it's getting to a point where even if that wasn't what was holding me back, I wouldn't be able to bite in to much now anyway with the overbite. I've had some issues with food falling out while I am chewing too. Fun times, I tell ya!
Next adjustment is in 2.5 weeks. I am going in about every 4 weeks now. No more wires for me. They said this is the heavier surgical wire I am already in, so that will stay with me through surgery. They're not really moving my teeth any more, hence the wire staying. It's just the gap closure, so every adjustment will just be to shorten my power chain and keep the forces closing that space. It will close....slowly, but surely.
I thought feeling a smaller gap would be more noticeable, but it's not. What I can feel is the difference in my bite, and wowzers, does that feel odd. Some days I can really feel it shifting and teeth are coming down on other teeth where they shouldn't. The worst is when they feel tip to tip, but then quickly they settle in it seems. I can definitely see and feel my overbite and overjet getting bigger, which is exactly what they are going for by doing the extraction (can definitely see it in the one picture up there). Sucks. I feel like I have these giant buck teeth again, but I know it's all part of the plan. I wasn't biting in to much to begin with because my loose upper front teeth are sensitive and can't bite in to much, but it's getting to a point where even if that wasn't what was holding me back, I wouldn't be able to bite in to much now anyway with the overbite. I've had some issues with food falling out while I am chewing too. Fun times, I tell ya!
Next adjustment is in 2.5 weeks. I am going in about every 4 weeks now. No more wires for me. They said this is the heavier surgical wire I am already in, so that will stay with me through surgery. They're not really moving my teeth any more, hence the wire staying. It's just the gap closure, so every adjustment will just be to shorten my power chain and keep the forces closing that space. It will close....slowly, but surely.
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