2 Months, 28 Days

Not this yellow—promise! I have no idea why my back teeth keep coming up overly yellow and stained. Nevertheless,  I will definitely be getting some sort of whitening to finish off my perfect smile post-braces.

T-minus Braces Lift-off

I went to my orthodontist today and was greeted with some excellent news. He said I was "looking terrible" with loads of sarcasm, and sprung something great on me, great and wonderful being that I'll be in braces for the shortest time possible, he said with restraint.

I'll still be wearing them for however long necessary, but it'll be the shortest that he can make it. This was sweet honey to my ears! Maybe I should say teeth—but mouth might be more fitting! Hell, sweet honey to my teeth.

I asked about how much longer it would be, and I'm pretty sure he said about 6 months, but it might have been 8, but I'm pretty sure it was 6—I was too excited to register it accurately! I walked right out of there smiling and smiling. I can predict waterworks when they finally come off, I just know it.

2 Months, 16 Days

2 Months, 7 Days—Underbite-be-Gone!

Such a happy chappy—my teeth have gone over! Can't you see the gorgeous smile happening and waiting to shine? My underbite is actually gone, good riddance. I am so happy I could smile!

I popped into my orthodontist for the second time this month because I noticed yet another ligature—or as they refer to here as a module—was missing. He put a new one in it's place and I also got a new upper archwire while he was at it. It's a little bit thicker and it's starting to hurt already.

2 Months, 2 Days

These are my awesome 'D' shark elastics in full swing. They are ultra-awesome in so much that their full extent cannot be shown here or caputured completely by camera.

It really looks as if my bite is closing over. I can tell you I will be so happy once my underbite is an overbite because essentially this is why I got braces.

1 Month, 23 Days

Shark/Vampire/Snake—Elastics and Braces

I went to my orthodontist today and got a present. A present in the form of news first and then a physical gift.

Good news was that I only had to wear my elastics part-time.

Bad news was that I was getting new and utterly worse elastics to wear for longer than my current ones.

I wish I had a photo of me wearing these elastics at this point in time because they really are terrible. They are a little thicker, a little shorter, and come from my upper canines to my lower canines at a bit of a diagonal which means they are quite visible when I talk and open my mouth.

I will continue to wear my 'E' elastics 8 hours a day, while my 'D' elastics get 16 hours of show. I've timed my schedule out, all social-friendly like, that I wear my 'E' elastics from 9 to 5—what a way to make a living!—and my 'D' elastics the rest of the time, 5 to 9.

The orthodontist told me I can take them out for a 'hot date'. Gosh, gee, thanks, I'll try and remember that. No consolation, they are really that bad.

My sister and I think I look like a shark in them, mother says a vampire (how topical—Twilight, anyone?), and one of my closest friends says a snake. I should start a freak-show or a zoo.