BRACES PART 1: INITIAL FITTING AND TREATMENT OVERVIEW
The first in a series of my experience with braces. This is 2 days after the initial appointment to get them fitted.
Braces
If you're not interested, please don't watch. Haha. Wow, now that I watch this again, I feel like I'm not explaining things right. I'll just type everything out. Before braces, they take pictures of your teeth, and they stretch your mouth out a lot. It hurts. Then they take impressions, my mixing these weird ingredients together to make this kind of jello / yogurt stuff, and they put it into a tray and push it into your teeth, so they can make molds of your teeth, and so they can analyze them better. Also, you get spacers, these little tiny rubber bands that they put in in between all of your back teeth. It hurts, because your teeth start moving. They do this because when they put your braces on, the metal will be placed around your back teeth, so the orthodontists need to make space. When you get your braces on, they put glue onto your teeth, and place the bracket in place. They do this for every tooth, then connect them all with a wire. It's kind of an uncomfortable procedure because your tongue gets in the way a lot. If you have an over bite, they might make you wear these long metal brackets on the back of your two front teeth, so that you get used to biting farther out, and you wont bite down on any other bracket or make it crack off. You get elastics eventually, which are these rubber bands that you have to hook on to your brackets. These correct your bite. How much you wear them will determine how long you have your braces on. If you wear them as much as they tell ...
Strumming Orthodontic / braces Elastics
I saw a great you-tube video... and wanted to make a v-log intro for my blog. (see the ones I marked as favorites, it is called 'duelling braces')
Braces Time Lapse: 6 Months
This is a 6 month time lapse of my braces. If you have already seen my first video skip to 0:33. I still have braces, I will make another video when i get them off. My braces were 00.00 and i do not have dental insurance. And yes, i do have an UNDERBITE. I forgot to wear my elastics when taking the pictures except the 5th month. Its amazing how fast your teeth can move. Especially with power chains! I don't wear headgear. ---update: march 30, 2010... i don't have an underbite anymore. i wore my elastics for 9 months and my ortho. says that my bite is perfect :D. and i only wore my elastics when i slept and part of school cause i was lazy. but you should wear them all time except when you eat and brush your teeth. ( i USE to have a 2mm underbite) ------------COLORED WIRES.. (POWER CHAINS). alot of people are asking how i got the "colored wires" well there called POWER CHAINS. you can see i have different colored wires on different teeth and sometimes around all my teeth. your ortho. decides where to place them. so you cant really choose, so your teeth can adjust right. but you can choose the color. :) ill make another video. when i get my braces off. Disclaimer: Owl City's "Fireflies" from their 2009 Ocean Eyes. No copyright infringement intended. I do not own any of the music.