Let's skip the part where I apologize about never updating when I say I will and get right to it:
I DONE GOOFED UP.
Actually, this doesn't appear to be my fault, but actually a computer's! So, if anyone was worried about robots taking over the world, you can relax; they also make mistakes!
Basically about 2 weeks ago I went to put on tray #32 and noticed some significant gaps between my teeth and the edges of the trays; it made my teeth look a lot longer than they actually were. Cut to me losing my god damn mind. I FUCKED UP. I'm spending a gazillion dollars on this thing and I ruined it!
I stared at my teeth in the mirror and cried and moped for the entire night. And of course I googled it immediately. I was convinced that somehow I, a person who is so committed to this process that I have sacrificed delicious snacks to wearing my braces just a little bit longer, did not wear my trays enough and that's why suddenly they weren't fitting. A simple mistake I made maybe 2 weeks before probably led to that night and me being the ACTUAL. WORST. PERSON. ALIVE.
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Of course that is not true, and I realize that now, but 2 weeks ago I was inconsolable. The next day I called the orthodontist literally 7 times before I finally got answers. They just so happened to be available during my lunch break so I drove on over to show them what I had done.
One look and they confirmed my worst fears in that moment: this can't be fixed. You can't go backwards on your trays and hope for the best! Fortunately she also told me that sometimes the computer/scanner thing just doesn't pick the best plan for how your teeth will actually move. Whew! I do remember ages ago they mentioned everyone gets refinements at some point; I just got mine a little earlier than we were expecting.
From there they scheduled another appointment, which I went to last week, to scan my teeth again and send them to the Invisalign gods to make me some new trays. The scan was somehow worse than the first time, and took about 600 years.
They also used some sort of air/drill thing (I literally can't remember what they said it was) to shave down my front teeth. I guess they had gotten worn down sort of diagonally since they were always crooked, so they evened them out a little. I literally had a secret anxiety attack during which my hands went numb because I was so scared that I now had "rabbit teeth" but everyone swears they don't even see a difference.
There was one good thing to come of this whole mess which is they took all the plastic attachments off my teeth since the new trays will likely need different attachments anyway. I feel so free! I only have to wear the last tray that (sort of) fit at night to make sure nothing moves back to the way it was, but otherwise you can find me snacking away any time at work this month.
The snacking thing probably isn't the best since now there is nothing to stop me from eating an entire container of mini Oreos at 3pm, but since it's only for a month I think I can get away with it.
So now I must wait until October 5 to get my new trays and continue this long-ass journey. I'm hoping there are still only 12ish trays since that's what I had left when this all started. I'd love to be done by 2018...even though I will have significantly less to write about then!
I guess that's it for now! I do have some big life stuff happening outside of braces but I feel like that deserves its own well thought out post. It's gonna need a looooot of editing before I can share it with the world. Ooooh, mystery~~~~~
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