Attachments

Today, I got my six "lovely" attachments put on. They are much more visible than I was expecting. It may take me a little while to not feel so self conscious of them. It looks like little pieces of rice stuck to my teeth. There are two on the the two teeth next to my front tooth. Those are the ones that I am most conscious of. Getting them glued on was easy and quick. The trays are a little more tricky to put on and pull off, but it's manageable so far. I was excited that no one was able to notice that I had braces, but I have a feeling that won't last long. They are especially ugly when I don't have the trays on. I don't have time at the moment to take a photo but I promise to get one up soon. And if I find even more time (which is hard to do these days...) I'll tray to get another video put together. I'd even like to see for myself how noticeable they are when I talk.

Happy New year!

The Next Day

Well, it seems that I did need a good few hours for that upper to be able to settle down on the back molar. It feels normal today. At least the position of the aligner feels normal. As for my teeth, they are quite a bit sore today. When the trays are on, the pain is minimal. I'm feeling mostly the tightness at that time. But when it's time to eat...look out! My kids thought that it was quite humorous to see me scream out loud as I took each bite of my food! When the front teeth (the only ones that will be moving) touch each other as I bite down, I feel like I am going to go though the roof! But if I remember correctly with the first tray this will go away in the next couple of days. I expected the trays to be really difficult to take off since they are so tight, but I really didn't have much trouble with them. I don't think that my speech was effected at all either, in fact it may have improved from the last set because they were starting to feel loose. I noticed that I would lisp until I bit down and made them fit tighter.

That's my experience so far with tray U 2/16 and L 2/15!

Trays 2

Just a quick post...after dinner this evening, I switched to my second trays. I've had the first in for three weeks and I'm glad to change them. They felt like they were getting loose. These are SUPER tight and a slight bit uncomfortable. But I expected that. What I didn't expect was for the upper right hand side to not want to completely cover the back molar. At first I thought that it was a defect (it was too late to call my orthodontist), but now I'm guessing that the teeth need to shift a bit. It felt horrible for the first hour or so. I kept biting down on it and it would feel as though it snapped in place and when I'd let go it would snap off. Now it's feeling a little more secure. Hopefully by morning, it will feel completely normal. This is the last set of trays that I will wear without attachments. I have 6 of them coming my way in 3 weeks.