sometimes orthodontists lie (36 weeks/8 months)

archwire appt today for me!

so my ortho lady today was a little slow. i wanted to floss as long as my wires would be off. so she cut all my tie wires on top, then on the bottom. took out my bottom wire and i said, 'when you get both off, i would like to floss.' she said, 'oh, they are both off. here.' gives me floss. i am thinking, um, but she didn't take off the top wire... so i say, 'they are both off? even the top?' she says, 'yup'. i feel like i'm in the twilight zone. so i go to the mirror, look at my teeth, AND, THE TOP WIRE IS STILL IN! so i go back to her, sit down and say, 'my top wire is still in...' she's all, 'oh, i swear i took it out!' well, what are you going to believe, your faulty memory or the fact that if you look over you will see that IT IS STILL IN MY MOUTH! do we really need to fight about it? it's right here! so she takes it out, and it was a pain in the butt as it has been the last few times. yeah, it's already out... so, i floss. it's awesome as always. also, with the wires and chains and tie wires off i can kinda see my teeth. they look AWESOME! i can't wait until i'm all done!

so, i go back and she's getting my springs ready. yea! (to put the spaces in between my eye teeth and the tooth behind it so dr. keane has a safe area to cut for my expansion). as she's putting them in she mutters, 'i wonder why he's doing this, are you getting bonding done or something?'. ok, i'd like to take a second to mention here that my chart is highlighted with yellow highlighter mentioning that i'm a surgical patient, lefort 3 piece... i tell her, 'um, it's because i'm having surgery and they need a space between my teeth so he doesn't damage my roots.' she says, 'oh... ok' now i know they are busy people, they see alot of patients but come on!

so all is done and my chains are on and i ask, 'do you really want the upper to have a power chain all the way across it? won't that make the springs not make spaces? or at least make it take much longer???' (as powerchains are put on TO CLOSE SPACES...) she says, 'it doesn't say not to. i'll ask dr. hobday.'. so he comes over to check me and she asks and he's like, 'whatever will make spaces. i would cut them, put singles on the back.' thank goodness, at least someone knows what's going on around here. so she cut the power chain, it goes from 3 to 3 (eye tooth to eye tooth), and i have regular ligatures on the two teeth behind those. she also asked if anything was poking. unfortunately, i've been to her before and she does wire tires very poorly. they are done fine, but when she folds them over they are VERY pokey! so i had her fix two of them. one is much better, the other is... ok. oh well. hopefully i don't need to go in again over them.

dr. hobday looked at my teeth for a bit, tells the assistant lady, 'set her up for 6 weeks' (i groan on the inside, 6 weeks! so long!), and then says, 'and have her come in for progress molds.' WHAT?!? molds?!? but you said 3 more appointments! hello?!?

who cares! molds! yea!