If you read through my exhaustingly long and excruciating post about Chicago, you will have noticed at the very end I talked about teeth and brackets...

Well, I finally got through all the sets of Invisiline braces. Except that while my teeth look rather straight now (compared to what they looked like before) they also don't "fit" together quite right. I guess it's time for fine tuning. Ah what fun. The first thing to be done is that one tooth needs to be moved "down" into place.

In order for that to be done, the dentist put brackets on the front and back of the tooth and is using a rubber band stretched over the Invisiline to do the work.

The only problem is - the brackets.

They are plastic. (*big huge sigh*)

So the first day about 4 hours after the dentist visit, I want to remove the rubberband as I am partial to the occasional meal. I'm trying to pull the rubberband off gently when the damned front bracket snaps off! This was on Wednesday - the dentist is not in on Thursday - so I had a new one cemented in this morning. She was amazed... saying, "Usually it's the back bracket that breaks." Famous last words... heh.

Once again I decided I needed to eat. I went to take off the rubberband and this time - the BACK bracket broke off! Oh yeah, it's Friday the 13th... Luckily, she is in tomorrow, so I'm off in the morning to have the other one fixed.

I'm trying to decide how many times I should let this happen before insisting on trying something different. So far I haven't worn the rubberband longer than 4 hours. At this rate I'll spend every other day at the dentist and the tooth will never move.

Posted by: Teresa in It's The Teeth at 07:13 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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