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Helloooo all ! !

Yes, I lied about the regular updates because I have zero time management skills to balance blogging and daily life. Im not fit for that blogger life. (This is currently being edited in 2021)

Anyways, I am currently on aligner 56/58 so 2 aligners away from finishing. The gap from the extraction has pretty much disappeared and my overbite is less crazy but it doesn't really look like what they guesstimated(?what) how my teeth would look by the end of the treatment. You can see the pics and video in my previous post.

I currently only have x1 TAD left as the other one had fallen out but since I'm almost done anyways, I'm not going to get it put in again. The problematic TAD had fallen out once before around aligner #30.

Why it was problematic?

WELLLLLLL the first month or so the TADs were fine, they were high up in the gums and were doing its job. But then I noticed the screw on the right slowly moving lower and lower to the point that any lower and it seems that it might come out of my mouth. It didnt hurt but I was getting concerned cause teeth have roots yeah so I was thinking wouldnt the screw touch the roots at some point?? Also the screws seem to get loose as well. They would spin so I was also stressed that it would come out and I would swallow it and die (As you can tell I dont know anything as a SN).

I wear one criss crossed cause if you have read in my previous posts, the elastics sometimes cut into my gums so i criss cross them for a little bit to relieve the pressure and then undo it and repeat it all over again.

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I went back to my orthodontist to try and get it tightened since it was easier to get to them than back to the dentist that did the screws. CAN I JUST SAY THAT IT WAS THE MOST PAINFUL THING TURNING THE SCREWS BACK IN WITH NO NUMBING STUFF AND NOT KNOWING IF IT WAS GETTING TIGHTENED OR NOT CAUSE IT WAS SO LOOSE (╥_╥)

Since the gummy smile was still there, I ended up getting another screw put in by the actual TAD dentist but same thing again, a few months later it went down, went loose. This time it was really really loose that I saw it barely hanging in there so I just twisted it some more and took it out myself (Didnt hurt tho).

When I smile you can still see a bit of the gums but its not as bad as before. Cause i didnt want to pay to get it done again I was like will it work with just one screw. Also this whole TADs thing was an experiment anyways that might or might not work.

The dentist said its fine with one screw, I can keep just wearing the elastic on one side. I was stressed that it would be lopsided cause one screw but they said it’ll be fine.

Aligner 30ish before second TAD replacement

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A few aligners later and still wearing the elastic band on one TAD, my teeth look like this which I think is fine.

Anyways thats all from me. Until the next appointment BYE BYEEEEE （⌒▽⌒）

H E Y O !

Its been a little while since my last post..

I have honestly had no motivation to take pics every week or so and write about because there hasnt been much noticeable differences.

BUTTTTTTT until very recently I've begun to notice that my cuspids look really messed up. They've gone up alot as compared to the front teeth so it just looks like a 'U' shape if that even makes sense. Overbite wise, it still looks pretty much the same but then again I have 58 aligners total and I'm on #17 at the moment soooo...

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As you can see the gap is still a decent size but at least the actual wound itself has closed up so I dont need to worry about getting food stuck up there┏(＾0＾)┛

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I feel like its quite noticeable even when I smile but at least people can tell I have something going on to fix my teeth.

Having aligners in dont bother me as much as when I first started. But every weekend when I change to a new aligner, the first 3 days or so MY TEETH HURT SO MUCH ESPECIALLY WHEN I TAKE THEM OFF TO EAT. They'll get hooked onto the attachments and then it JUST FEELS SO BAD i dont know how to explain cause they're moving. But once they're off they're fine...

Omg and having to take them out to eat is such a hassle especially when I'm in public.. I like to eat in the lecture rooms and when theres other students next to me, it's just weird taking my aligners out but whatever Im hungry and I've got aligners in !!

TADs are doing well. I cant really report anything at the moment but then with my cuspids going up, the gummy smile is really at the same level? So I wonder once the front teeth go up as well, will my gummy smile just go away too?

Heres how it looked when all the elastics where worn.

Anyways that is all for todays post. Will Tiffany be motivated enough to keep going? Who Knows? ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

HELLO !!

Im probably going to write a few short blogs and then set a timer so they post on specific days. Anyways this blog is about my TADs and Invisalign attachments experience.

28/02/19 - TADs appointment: So after the first set of aligners which were put on the Monday, I went to get the screws done on a Thursday and made another orthodontist appointment for the Monday after. For the TADs we had to go to a specialist to get them done. They were $250 each rip money. BUT LET ME TELL YOU.

TADs HURT.

More specifically the moment the anaesthetic wears off which for me was immediately after I left the clinic. We were literally downstairs and then I could feel my entire mouth just ache like crazy. TBH not I dont even think it was an ache it was like my jaw was being ripped apart from my face (NOCE DESCRIPTION TIFFANY).

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Anaesthetic was painful(cause needle to gums so like hmmm) like there were tears natural body reflex to pain. He then cut a bit of my gums to make an incision and start screwing them in. When its numb you dont feel pain just pressure. He struggled with getting one side in cause he be like my bones are thick as but then the other side went in easily. He gave me a tiny strip of wax like half cause he used half to put on the screws so they wouldn't cause ulcers on my gums. But like cheap bich.. I need to last till Monday😡 SO YEAH BY THE TIME I GOT OUT THE CLINIC I WAS IN SO MUCH PAIN.

Thank god i went with my mum, i was in so much pain i was honestly dizzy. It was a really, really bad ache. My mum gave me Panadol and i went to her shop and took a nap. After nap, pain was tolerable and i was able to eat my beloved soft egg and beef rice noodles. Maybe not the beef cause ya gurl cant chew properly cause she doesn't want food to get stuck in the sockets from her extracted teeth.

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The screws were put in between the front and second teeth. There was quite abit of blood, it took a while to clot just like last time with my teeth extractions.. HMMM. But after blood clotted and few days passed, when I check my screws I could see a cut just right under the right one.. Must be why it kept bleeding cause a chunk of gum was gone.

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4/03/19: Anyways the Monday came around, i went back to see the orthodontist and he put some attachments on my teeth AND MY GOD, no attachments vs attachments were so different. For starters, the first two days it was painful to take my aligners off. Like aligner #2 were made to fit the attachments so every time i took them off they would kinda get stuck on the attachments so when i pull them off i have to be careful. Not like the first set when there was nothing i could just take them off very easily.

He also tried to put elastics on my TADs but cause my gums were still swollen and painful, when he managed the get the elastics on, the elastics would sit on the gum (Great feeling indeed) and I would just be in pain.. So he told me to leave the elastics until its less painful and swollen and then try again..

My TADs looks like this btw ⤵

11/03/19: I did salt rinses every single day so help with the swelling and healing so that literally one week I could try to put the elastics on. BUT

ITS CUTTING INTO MY GUM. LIKE ONE SIDE IS FINE BUT THE OTHER ONE IS LITERALLY CUTTING IN. It stopped stinging and hurting after a few seconds so I thought okay its fine. So I went to bed and the next morning when I went to change the elastics, there was a 'line' or dent from where the elastics were and it was bleeding O.O

I called my orthodontist and they told me if one doesn't hurt then I can just wear on one side and when the other is ready then i can wear both side. Its up to me. But then the other one will have to catch up. I ended up wearing one for a while but then was like hmm best not to, i dont want an uneven smile

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Anyways, I ended up making an appointment on 21/03/19. Will write post about that one next week. It's currently 12:22am and I am procrastinating, I have a presentation on Wednesday and I dont even know what is happening.

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