1 month

1 month progress

It has now been officially 1 month since brace day!!

I can't say the time has flown by... mostly because I have been very impatient to see movement but after reviewing my latest photos and comparing with Week 1, it's very encouraging to see that there has definitely been some real progress.

As I mentioned in my last post I'm very pleased with how my upper left canine is slowly but surely making its way into the correct position and causing a fair bit of achiness in the adjacent teeth!

I also woke up this morning to quite a bit of achiness in my upper two front teeth and although I haven't seen much change over the past 4 weeks I am excited to see how they will start progressing over the next month or two. They've been all wonky and angled outwards my entire life so I can't imagine how I will look with straight teeth!

Within the past week I've noticed a gap appearing on either side of my upper front teeth too which is pretty crazy as I am so used to them being so squished up together and almost impossible to floss. I would never have dreamed of trying to fit an interdental brush in between them before but now it's easier than any of the others!

Apologies for the major difference in lighting and angles in some of these - taking pics of your mouth is hard!! They're also taken with 2 different cameras which doesn't help. I'll try to use the same one from now on...

Right side - not a whole lot to see here really... has the front one moved maybe??

Left side - you can see the wire has straightened out quite a bit where the canine has come down, yay!

Not much to see here either - front teeth looking more or less the same. I feel like my smile has straightened out somewhat since my canine has moved though! My lip doesn't get stuck on the braces like it did before

Again not hugely different, though my bottom teeth have definitely shifted, and not in the right direction!! I don't know if you can tell, I can mostly tell by the way my tongue feels on them, but the front left has become even more wonky and overalapping the one next to it.... it is early days still so hopefully this will resolve soon..

Here you can really see the wire on the upper left canine doing its thing - ALMOST there!! The one next to it looks like its been pulled forward too.

I have my first adjustment on the 9th of October so I will be back with more updates then! xxx