Well, kind of. You want to see my teeth in all their ugly-ducklingness? I’m going to have to go out and face the world eventually (i.e. I can’t hide in my house for the next couple of weeks while my gum tissue heals), so I might as well show you. I’m about to show you [...]
Like a whole new me
Well, not really. But damn. This afternoon I took a half day off work and headed over to my dentist, the same one who I got my Invisalign through, for a little something I like to call HAVING MY GUMS LASERED OFF. I think the technical term is “sculpted.” And the technique he used was [...]
Tray three, week five
I just put the third tray of 12 Invisalign aligners in tonight, and damn are my teeth sore. Actually, it doesn’t feel as bad as it did the night I put tray two in, but I’m not taking any chances. I’ve loaded myself up on Ibuprofen just in case. I took some pictures tonight, too, [...]
The pain, or, thankfully my uterus doesn't have teeth
I put my second set of Invisalign trays in last night, and was surprised at how difficult it was to get them over my teeth. I didn’t hear that familiar noise of them popping on, and I actually felt like I was going to tear my jaw off with all the pulling and pressing to [...]
The good, the bad and the ugly
The good I stopped biting my nails. The aligners require fingernails to get them off my teeth, which I knew, and I was so afraid that I wouldn’t be able to get them off and therefore starve that I quit biting my nails two weeks before my aligners came in. I’ve been trying to quit [...]