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Today I had my conference with my wonderful orthodontist. He showed me my bite mold, x-rays, and tracings of what my jaw/profile is now v.s. what it will be. I found out that my front teeth grew too far forward, so I would need two teeth extracted from the top to be able to make my teeth straighter. However, this will make my bite much worse because the teeth will be brought back with braces, making my jaw seem more prominent than it was before. Anyway, my orthodontist is going to put braces on, but he’s not going to put brackets on the two teeth in case my surgeon agrees that they need to come out. If my surgeon can do the surgery without the extractions, by just cutting the top jaw and bringing the front down somehow, I will go back and get brackets on those two teeth. I also learned that my two frontmost teeth have weak roots, meaning that the root stopped growing, and now it is far shorter than it should be. This is not particularly a problem, however, because of the way my teeth grew in (slightly out) that means that these teeth will be on high watch and are very important if we do decide to extract the two teeth. After seeing my portfolio of all of my pictures, x-rays, and stats, I wanted to cry because I saw my jaw now and how I look and I do not like what I see. And yes, they are ugly digitals where I have to smile big in order to show my bite in which i NEVER do, but it’s all for the records. I can’t change the way I look without going through this process, so acceptance is a big part in moving forward. The part about my bite getting worse made me tear up a little bit as well because I know it would change my speech a lot and make it a lot worse than it already it. But as they say, it gets better. We also discussed my chin, and how it is pointy. My orthodontist said that if my surgeon wants to, he will cut the bone and round it off, for the aesthetics. I am not that fond of my pointy chin, so it was nice to find out that the surgeon may round it out for me. Anyway, I ended up getting spacers today, and I made an appointment to get my braces on. On Monday of next week, I will go in to have my spacers removed and get my braces on. I believe I have decided to get normal braces, not the clear ones, because clear braces are a lot of work to keep clear...basically one pasta fuck up and I’m a stained brace face. Cute, right? Anyway, as of now I am in pain and experiencing major discomfort. I can feel tiny shift in my teeth from the spacers, and that is so weird to me since I never had any oral treatment my whole life. It’s equivalent to biting on a serrated knife, but it also fluctuates to the feeling of flossing too hard. Basically, my back molars are super sore, and it makes it hard to eat and bite down in general. I had broth for dinner, and some ice cream which I kind of tongued because it hurt when my back teeth would touch. This feeling is supposed to go away in a few days, and I hope it does because I feel absolutely miserable now. Yes, I do talk different already, but a very minor change. I am talking like something very minuscule is in my mouth. It’s not too bad because people can still understand me. I just hope that if they do have to make my bite even worse, my minor lisp won’t develop into a major lisp. I am already self conscious about the way I talk, so I am stepping out of my comfort zone, going through this process in order to achieve the end result, which is a perfect bite and super straight teeth. I think I will have a little more tolerance for teeth pain once I get my braces on since I would have gotten used to spacers by then (hopefully). Until now, I’m just trying to get through the spacers experience, and I am looking forward to becoming a brace face. Follow me for more info and a new blog post on Monday! Also, if you ever have a question, ask, direct message, or send me fan mail. I will get back to you with a detailed response asap.