Braces Update

Had an ortho appointment yesterday. 9 weeks to go with the pregnancy, assuming Ruby is on time, and Dr. Stewart swears I'll be done with the braces before then.

I wore elastics to finish moving the midline on the bottom. I did not have to go back to the forsus spring. Had a class II on the left side and a class III on the right side with 3 elastics in a triangular configuration. Wish I'd taken a photo, but oh well.....

The midline had moved into place, so now I'm just waiting on final tweaks to tooth placement. The elastics had caused the top left incisor to turn a little so it wasn't perfect. At the appointment yesterday, Dr. Stewart took out the top SureSmile wire and replaced it with a 20 guage square wire. The brackets were removed on two teeth and the wire skips the very back bracket. I'll take a photo to better explain. Hopefully, over the next 4 weeks, this will guide the top teeth into their final position.

I'm not sure if I'll be done for good in 4 weeks, or if Dr. Stewart will want to make some final tweaks to the bottom teeth. I'm really, really close to done though!