Yesterday I skipped into the ortho's office, all excited at the possibility of him telling me nice things. HA. Here's the story...
I go in, fill in a health form and get called through. He has a look in my mouth and seems to have trouble locating which teeth I had out but eventually figures out that 5 are missing (I told him that already). The he puts the oh so sexy lip spreaders in and takes photos. It was so hard not to laugh!! Next up were the impressions...the bit I hate. The top wasn't too bad because he got me to sit forward so I didn't feel like I was going to choke but the bottom was horrible because the tray was digging in to my gums at the back and was really quite painful.
Anyhoo, we go over and have a look at my gnashers on the computer screen and I'm shocked to see that I have a brown spot on one of my front teeth that I had never noticed. How come the dentist and hygienist didn't notice it either? Great, one more thing to be paranoid about. That and the fact that one of my canines is quite yellow. JOY. Used to pride myself on my white teeth and I don't drink or smoke so I have no idea how that has happened.
So he says that he wants to get my moulds made up etc and devise some treatment plans before saying anything certain but he says it looks like I have three options:-
1) Teeth out to make space to bring the others back
2) Some sort of crazy implants to pull them back one by one from the very back teeth
3) SARPE
Estimated time for any option picked - 3 years.
He also wants me to see the visiting consultant when he's over which should be in the next 6 weeks.
He looked at me and said "this is really expensive and time consuming you know" in a very patronising way. Errrr, yes, I know and am fully prepared and aware of everything! I've done my research. I've probably done too much research!
I'm leaning towards the teeth out thing but....do I really want to remove healthy teeth?
I guess I will just have to wait and see what he says.
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8 years ago
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It worries me to hear that the ortho was patronizing toward you...
The one thing I've learned after my experience... is that you have to like and feel comfortable with your team... and an orthodontist is someone you are going to see every 6 weeks...
hahaha. look at me... I've become a bitter old bag!
Good luck with whatever you decide to go with! I'll keep reading!
I hope you feel confident with this ortho, as I'm sure I'd not feel good with someone who was patronising.
Do check about having more teeth out. Is this the only option, as you don't want your smile to be narrow.
Good luck ... ask loads of questions of your ortho and visiting consultant. Plus if you want more information, make an appointment to find out what another ortho or two would do.
Good luck!
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