Step Two of the Braces Procedure

Today I went to the orthodontist (yet again) and got spacers! For those of you who don't know what they are, they are little blue rubber bands that go in between your teeth and are supposed to widen the gap so that braces can fit nicely. Anyway, I thought they were going to be some really painful metal things but it turns out that there only little blue rubber bands that go around your teeth. They don't really hurt which is good because people have told me that they're the most painful part of the entire procedure. But before they could put the spacers in they had to take some molds of my teeth which were disgusting. They had to hold a bunch of bright blue slime in my mouth and wait for it to harden. Yuk! But at least step two in my braces procedure is complete.

Braces are a pain in the Neck!

This Saturday I went to the orthodontist to get my teeth checked out before i get my braces (April 2nd). I had been through it all before so I knew what to do. They had to stick a piece of wax in your mouth that makes you gag, take some photos of you and take some X- rays. While they were doing the X- rays I had to put on a really heavy vest to protect against the harmful rays (hence the name "X- ray"). I had to do this one X- ray where some plugs go into your ears and the plugs are on a piece of plastic that is attached to this machine. I think they were just there to keep me still. Anyway, the machine was a little low so i asked the lady that was taking the X- rays to higher the machine a little. When she did higher it, it really hurt because it was too high but before I could say anything she scurried out of the room and I was left there for about 2 minutes with my head feeling like it was being pulled out of it's socket. When I got home I started to notice my neck hurt. The pain just kept growing and growing and growing! It's been like this for 3 days now (including today). I've even had to skip school today because of my neck injury and all day I've constantly had to have a hot buckwheat pillow (a pillow thing that you heat up in the microwave) up to my neck to keep the muscles relaxed. Isn't getting braces fun?