Star of The Sea

1. New Orthodontic Stuffs!

Well, it's actually been couple weeks since I bought it, but still NEW stuffs! Yay. My orthodontist suggest me to use orthodontic toothbrush. Found this one at Century, I guess. The brand is Pierrot and may be it's one of the best toothbrush I've ever possessed for 21 years.

What's the difference with normal toothbrush?

Just two: The head is smaller, makes it easier to brush your teeth, especially the far, in the back ones.Then, the bristle makes V shape. There are two rows of bristles in the center that are shorter than the outer.

I guess the shorter bristles are useful for cleaning the brackets, while the longer ones cleaning your teeth and spaces around it.

Best thing: It digs excess food from my teeth really nicely.

You may puke.

But it's true. Tee-hee.

Also, if you notice, I got tongue cleaner too! I didn't know how important is that. Well, just because there's promotion, it came along with the toothbrush.

Best thing: This one grossed out white-thick saliva out of my tongue and makes it pink again!

2. My Teeth Progress: 1 Week After First Installment of Braces

I've mentioned in my previous post that my two-front-upper teeth became crook. I asked my orthodontist and he said it's normal. Moreover, he said my teeth would mostly crash each-other first, before it could become straight.

3 & 4. My Teeth Progress: Day 22

All I can see is my crook upper front teeth...

I know, I know... It's just... Nevermind.

I should had adjustment on June 14th, exactly two weeks after my braces installment. But I couldn't make it due to my final exams. I got tight schedule until the end of June :(

Have you guys worn braces? Did you also experience the phase when your teeth seem worse?

Share with me! :D

See ya,

Intro

Hi! I’m Sotsea (20 years old as for today) and thank you for visiting this blog.

As you have guessed this is a blog about my braces journey. I want to share my progress here and talk about my daily life too. Keeping a record of it all seems fascinating. So let’s get started!

Started from here!

On Friday, May 30th 2014 I started wearing braces. Choosing color is the most fun part for me. For my pilot, I chose lavender. Soft, easier for me (and people around me) to get used with it (visually).

It’s been almost a week now. I can see that my two front teeth on the upper row has moved. One of them tilted upward now (makes it farther from the goal: Straight teeth). Is it normal? Or is it just a process it needs to get through? I’m so curious. Probably will ask my orthodontist tomorrow.

I made this blog to share my journey and to communicate with others who are going through the same thing or thinking about wearing braces.

Early days with braces

It’s my 5th day with braces. My two upper-front teeth (the rabbit teeth) still cannot bite anything harder than banana and porridge. So far I’m so grateful I haven’t experienced any thrush in my mouth, as many of my friends have experienced.

On the first day there’s not much pain that I felt, just my teeth felt so tight. Then, I realize I couldn’t bite rice at dinner. The second and third day, my teeth ached all over. It’s still bearable though, but I almost couldn’t eat anything.

Today, I feel quite okay and even ate pistachios with my back teeth. I know I should not, but I want something to bite after days and nights of porridge T__________T.

The pistachios tasted so good! I tried to eat and bite slowly and gently though. Hope everything is fine.

To those who also going through the same thing now, brace up! I believe this is going to be fun journey. <3

Good night,