July 2, 2007- Twenty-Nine Months- Well, today was quite the adventure. Had an appointment today at 10:40 and when I went in the network for the xrays was down. It wasn't a panoramic that they wanted. It was something else. I can't remember the name. Anyway, Doc decided to put something called an arc wire on my top line today to straighten out the roots and keep the bottoms the same until the network came back up. The wire looked like a circle with little loops in it and it was springy. It hooked onto my exsisting wire somehow and was quite something to look at. At 2, I went back to the office to get the xray done, and when he saw the picture he told me to sit in a chair. Keep in mind that I didn't have a second appointment and it was just after their lunch, so they had people everywhere. He told me that the arc wire had to come out because my roots were fine and that I was actually looking really good. My bite is where he wants it and all that is left is fixing a tiny bit of overbite that is left. He told me that things would be coming off very soon. :) I'm exhausted...lol. He's a perfectionist, so I understand why things take as long as they do, and I'm grateful for that. So, after he tool the arc wire out, he put a new NiTi wire on and powerchains from the top 6 to 6. I have to continue to double up on my elastics on my right side and wear only one on the left. My next appointment is July 30. My posts have been lagging behind, but that is only because of recent drama in my life. The aunt that I was looking after passed away in May and my husband just lost his grandfather last Monday. The bit of good news about my braces being off soon was a much welcomed thing. Hopefully things will return to some kind of normalcy now. :)
