My favorite dental doo-dads!

This package includes the little brushes that clean around your brackets. It works well and so handy to have around!


Although some people say that you shouldn't use this brush when you have braces, I find that it works well because the bristles are hard enough. The regular ones, the bristles are so soft, the brackets wear them out really fast.


And at the end of all that cleaning, I finish up by using this waterpik to remove anything that has been left behind! I end my evening with a fresh, clean mouth!

I am officially a metal mouth!!

Got my uppers braced today, so I am officially a metal mouth! I finally feel like I "belong" to the metal mouth club...LOL! Before with just my lowers braced, I had the "half-way there" feeling.

I actually feel quite comfortable right now...but just waiting for that achy pain to come (you know, the pain you get 1 day after getting braced). I hope it doesn't last for 5 days, like when I first got my lowers done. I got the porcelain brackets for my 6 front teeth (although only 5 are bracketed right now). The porcelain brackets feel quite nice, they are not sharp like the metal ones...or maybe I have become used to my lowers so now my uppers are not bugging me like when I first got braced. My ortho. only bracketed 5 out of 6 of my front teeth right now because he wants these teeth to move "outwards" to create some space so the 6th tooth can rotate into place.

Anyway, now the waiting game for my extraction starts...my next appointment is in 3 weeks (4/10/08)...which will just be a check-up and I will be referred out to an oral surgeon...yikes! I am getting scared!!

Here are some pics of my new uppers! I got dark pink ligs for my lowers this time...I like this color...it matches with my blog!