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noveldevice at 12:00pm on 04/04/2011
noveldevice at 12:00pm on 04/04/2011My orthodontist's office might as well have made a note on my chart about my compliance rate (which is about 110%).
My orthodontist routinely describes me as a "trouper". The techs who adjust me know that while I may cry in the chair (and do--the stuff they're doing to me is often pretty painful), I'm not going to hurt them, and I'll mostly just lie there and let them do whatever it is.
They started me with elastics after four months, which seems pretty quick.
One of my classmates said that he had braces for four years and he just never let them do anything to him by threatening to hurt the techs who were doing his adjustments. This seems a little beside the point to me, but maybe it's different when you wrote the cheque for your treatment yourself.
ETA: I should probably say that it's apparently just random misfortune that renders my orthodontic treatment so painful. I seem to have a very sensitive mouth, or possibly just extraordinarily stiff periodontal ligaments. Either way, most people I've talked to don't have the difficulties I've had with just the standard treatment appliances I have. It could be a lot worse: I don't have a TPA, no Forsus springs, no crib, nothing like that, but it still hurts like a bastard.
My orthodontist routinely describes me as a "trouper". The techs who adjust me know that while I may cry in the chair (and do--the stuff they're doing to me is often pretty painful), I'm not going to hurt them, and I'll mostly just lie there and let them do whatever it is.
They started me with elastics after four months, which seems pretty quick.
One of my classmates said that he had braces for four years and he just never let them do anything to him by threatening to hurt the techs who were doing his adjustments. This seems a little beside the point to me, but maybe it's different when you wrote the cheque for your treatment yourself.
ETA: I should probably say that it's apparently just random misfortune that renders my orthodontic treatment so painful. I seem to have a very sensitive mouth, or possibly just extraordinarily stiff periodontal ligaments. Either way, most people I've talked to don't have the difficulties I've had with just the standard treatment appliances I have. It could be a lot worse: I don't have a TPA, no Forsus springs, no crib, nothing like that, but it still hurts like a bastard.