Braces

On April 24, 2008 I got my braces. I really like the colors I got, blue and green. My orthodontist is great, his name is Dr. Shroeder. I have a really good friend in my 4th grade class named Isabella (she goes by Izzy) who also goes to Dr. Shroeder. She has braces and we always think of ourselves as twins. A few weeks before the 24th, I got an impression. If you don't know what that means it is a way to make a model of your mouth. They put flavored molds on a cup thing that fits in your mouth, then they stick in and hold it there for 25 seconds. when it is done, it dries and you have a model of your mouth! It didn't hurt at all when they put the braces on. When I got there we had to wait a really long time in the waiting room, probably about 30 minutes. But when they were finally ready for us, I went to get an x-ray of my mouth. They said they had to do that for records. Then I came into the room were they do the braces and other stuff, I sat down in the chair and they took a lot more pictures. They said they had to do another impression, but I think they changed their minds. Then finally it was time to get on with the braces. They used a green thing to hold my mouth open and wide. With that in there they put the cement on my teeth and then the brackets. The brackets are the metal part of braces that the wire goes through. To dry the cement faster they shined a bright blue light on my teeth. Then they scraped off the rest of the cement that didn't need to be there. Then they told me to rinse. At the sinks I looked at myself in the mirror. I think I looked really cool. When I was done I went back to the chair and they put the green thing back in. Then they stuck the wire through the bracket and told me to pick a color. I asked them how many colors I could get and they said I could have as many as I wanted. I chose two colors, blue and green. Now that the braces were on, we had a lot of things to talk about. They told me what kinds of food I can and can't eat and talked about a lot more things I didn't and still don't understand. Then we could leave. At the front desk mom made more appointments for me. Right as we were about to walk out the door, the orthodontist came running out and gave us the dried impression of my mouth that they took a few weeks ago. I got to get a milkshake and didn't have to go back to school that day.

I LOVE MY BRACES!