Orthodontist appointment

I had an orthodontist appointment yesterday, it was a really exciting appointment!
Firstly, she showed me the molds she'd taken last time I'd had an appointment, and she put them together so that they fitted together in the correct way, so I could have more of an idea what my teeth will look like after the operation. It was so wierd to see my teeth in that position, it looked like they were someone elses teeth! I can't believe my teeth will eventually look like that it's so hard to imajine...
Then she took one of my brackets off because she said it was interfering with my bite with how it was placed, so she put it back on slightly differently. It's so crazy that the minute differences in the placement changes how your teeth move so much! They're so clever that they can work out how to move them and everything.
Then she did something a bit scary/dramatic, she said she needed to 'reshape' my bottom teeth a bit so that my molds would fit together a little bit better, I got a bit panicked by that thinking she was going to chizzle my teeth down or something! but she just got this thing that looked a bit like a nail file and scraped it between my teeth. I wasn't very nice but it wasn't painful it just felt really gritty! and also, while she was doing it I could see dust blowing out into the air!! I think that was tooth dust!! It made me realise how much you have to trust your orthodontist though, I was scared she might do it too much and that I'd end up with little pegs for teeth. but actually you can't really see much of a difference, the gaps that she made are soo tiny.
She also did new photos, and measured all of my face and I got another x-ray done. My next appointment is in March, and it's a joint appointment with my surgeon. That appointment is when I'm going to get my surgery date! yayyy so exciting
here are some new-ish photos! I dyed my hair dark woooo

Current teeth update

I didn't know what those little gold hooks were on my braces, so I asked my orthodontist and she said they are going to be for putting elastic bands on later!:S ooh errr

nosey noses

Ok! I have a question for post surgery people:) How many of you had an 'alar stitch'? Did you find that it made your nose widen less after the surgery? Would you recomend it? This is one of my main worries, because my nose is already quite wide and I don't want to end up with a massive nose..haa
I think I'm going to ask my surgeon if he was planning on using one next time I see him:) Originally he said the changes to my nose would only be positive though, so I don't know if that means he was thinking of using the stitch thing, or maybe he just thinks that wide noses are good I don't know...or maybe he was just being optimistic.. :S The last time I saw my surgeon was in January (I think..) so thats why I haven't asked him about this yet!!

surgery is creeping closer

Hellooo! I'm very excited. Everthing is moving along and the surgery feels really real now, rather than something just off in the far distant future.
I had an orthodontist appointment a couple of weeks ago, and my orthodontist changed my wires again. I now have my final wires on, so these are the wires I'll have when I'm having my surgery! She also took new molds of my teeth because she said that my teeth probably aren't going to move any more now:) (I'm glad about that because I really don't think my bite could be any more under than it is already..it's horrible)
I will probably have my surgery in July of 2012. My orthodontist said I'd probably be ready before that, but I can't have it sooner because I have to wait until my art course is finished. July feels really soon though. It's wierd it kind of feels soon but also too far away at the same time! 
heres a horrible picture where my jaw looks like it's jutting out into the next room. I really hope that I don't often look this bad! It really is the photos that you don't know are being taken that end up being the most repulsive..

aaaaaaaaahhh!! so horrid
here are some nice christmassy photos to balance out that hideous one:)

Hope everyone has had a wonderful christmas, and that new year is lots of fun!

Wisdom teeth

Hi everyone!:) I had my wisdom teeth operation on Monday and it is now wednesday, I am sooo swollen! I didn't expect that really, I thought it would only be a little bit but I look like an actual hamster!
The actual operation wasn't that bad, I was is A LOT of pain when I woke up though mainly because I had a really really really bad headache/migraine, and a sore throat and ear ache and jaw ache and neck ache!! pretty much my entire head was just throbbing:( it was really horrible but then they gave me codiene and I felt way way better really fast after that:)
Then on Monday night I tried to sleep lying on my back because I thought it wouldn't be a good idea to squidge my swollen cheeks by sleeping on them but that was so uncomfy and I ended up just sleeping on my side anyway. Then I woke up at pretty much hourly intervals with head/neck/jaw pain and a horrible sore throat (I think that was because they had to put a draining tube thing in my throat I'm not sure) and found it really hard to go back to sleep because I was in loads of pain:( and then last night was even worseee I just felt dreadful and couldn't sleep at all, and today my face is SO massive, I look quite funny actually like a little gerbil or something but my face hurts so much! I really wanted to go look round the degree courses at my uni today with my friend but I've had to stay at home because I feel really headachy and soo tired. I really wanted to go! but oh wellll:)
I'm sorry if I sound like I'm moaning, because everyone else seemed to find the wisdom tooth operation a stressless breeze but for me it was a lot worse than I expected. It is good in a way though because I do feel like I've had a taste of what the actual jaw surgery will be like. Also I have stitches!! I only noticed them yesterday, they didn't actually tell me they'd put them in which was wierd, but I could sort of feel them so I looked in the mirror and theres big black bits of string sticking up! I hope they will just disolve away, I'm sure they'd be the disolvable kind if they didn't even tell me they were there? I hope so!!
Also I've just constantly been taking paracetamol and codiene! codiene is so good it helps so much I love it

This is me on Tuesday, the day after the operation.

 This is me today! I'm way more swollen today, I really hope it starts to go down soon..

Tomorrow!

Tomorrow I'm having my wisdom teeth operation!! I'm feeling a bit nervous now, I was fine before because I was just relieved it was finally happening but now I'm feeling scared because it's so close..
Just in case you don't know, I'm having my wisdom teeth out because the space where they were is where they do the jaw surgery operation! and I have to have it now so that the bone can strengthen before I have jaw surgery.
I've never had general anesthetic before..eeek but I'm sure everything will be fine! I'll do a post tomorrow or in the next couple of days to say what it was like:)

8 months of braces

woah it doesn't feel like 8 months at all! My teeth have changed a lot in the time, I've done a before/after thing but it's quite hard to tell in photos whats changed because it depends so much on the angle you take the photo at..

This is before braces

and this is 8 months after! I think everything has generally been widened and straightened, and my bite is way more under now.