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The End is Near: Getting Rid of my Braces

What do you get when you put a dentist, an oral surgeon and an orthodontist together? I'm hoping I'll get a final resolution to my dental injuries.

Regular readers may recall my bike accident from last summer, when I fell on the pavement and broke my eye tooth, knocked two other teeth out of place and fractured my arm. I got braces a few days later to straighten out my displaced teeth and make room for a dental implant. The first part of my dental implant is in place and healed, and a temporary tooth is attached to my braces; in a few weeks I'll get the second part of the implant in, and a few weeks after that, my dentist will take a mold of my teeth to make a crown.

What this also means is that I'll soon be getting rid of my braces. They can't take a mold of my teeth with braces on them, so my dentist plans to attach a temporary tooth to the adjoining teeth right after my next surgery. We can't just leave a gap in there. First, I don't want to go around missing a tooth. Second, the surrounding teeth might drift out of place--and there's barely enough room for a crown as it is. If all goes according to plan, my orthodontist will take all this metal out of my mouth in a few weeks.

I was so happy at the thought of getting rid of my braces that I had a celebratory hamburger (without the bun). I may have another one for breakfast.
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tess said…
hurrah!!! times like this, i remember the old commercial, "how do you spell relief" -- in this case, n-o-b-r-a-c-e-s. :-)
March 15, 2013
Lori Miller said…
I guess I shouldn't complain too much about having braces. It's better than having a couple of teeth yanked out or going through life unable to chew. But I'm still in deliriously happy mode at the thought of getting them out.
March 15, 2013
Maria said…
HI i raad about your tuf toe and i got that about a week ago how long did the DR tod you to keep your toe rap so it wont move i know u said it take a month for it to get better
March 19, 2013
Lori Miller said…
The turf toe was four years ago, and it was before I started blogging. I don't remember what the doctor told me, but I probably wrapped my foot up for a month.
March 19, 2013
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