http://www.myadultbraces.com Getting Braces As An Adult Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:15:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I had my three month teeth cleaning yesterday at the periodontist. It went very well. They started by rubbing a swab around all my teeth which turned them pink. The amount of pink indicated how much and where plaque was on my teeth. She said it was very good, only ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/teeth-cleaning-at-periodontist.html I needed a new brush head for my Oral-B Advanced Power toothbrush. The brush head on the toothbrush I keep at work on my desk was a bit beat up and probably should've been replaced quite a bit ago. It got pretty beat up from using it to brush my ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/oral-b-floss-action-brush-head.html I got my permanent bridge installed last week. So I called up my orthodontist to make an appointment to get a new retainer. The first appointment was only for about half an hour. I stopped in, she mixed up some paste stuff, and spread it into a mold, and fitted ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/new-retainer.html I had arrived early for my teeth cleaning appointment today. Fortunately they were able to get me in. I had asked the dental hygienist about whether my dental bridge had made it back from the lab. She looked at the chart, but it didn't say anything. She said the dentist ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/dental-bridge.html I was schedule to have my teeth clean today. I forgot all about it until they call last week. I added it to my calendar on my computer at work. But then I call out sick today due to a cold. I couldn't remember when my appointment was. I thought ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/teeth-cleaning-and-depth-of-gums-measured.html Yesterday I had my appoint to had my new permanent bridge installed. But before the dentist glued it in, he had me check it out with a mirror. The first thing I noticed was that the color was slightly different. The bridge was a little more yellow than my natural ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/bridge-color-matching.html Today was my appointment to get my permanent bridge installed. I arrived at 2:30 and sat in the waiting room for a while, then they brought me back. The dentist was finishing up with another patient, so I took a short nap, then he was ready for me. They numbed ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/permanent-bridge-color-didnt-match-natural-teeth.html This morning I had my appointment to get my temporary bridge. Before they started to remove the remains of the old bridge, they took some molds of my teeth as they already were. They had me keep my retainer with the prothetic tooth in. Then they used topical anasthetic to numb ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/got-my-temporary-bridge.html I got a letter in the mail today from the insurance company! They will cover my replacement bridge. Well, at least part of it. They will cover 40% of the porcelain bridge crowns, and the porcelain pontic. Seeing that these cost about $950 each, that is a heck of a ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/insurance-will-cover-my-bridge.html When i got my braces, they had to cut my old bridge into parts. But now that my teeth are straight, I need to get a replacement bridge. I had the dentist send in for a pre-estimate of coverage. I waited and waited. Finally I got a letter from the ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/will-insurance-cover-my-bridge.html I bought a Waterpik WP60W about 3 years ago. I have been very happy with my purchase. But then the hose broke. I managed to fix it, but it broke again. I fixed it again, and it broke again. Apparently the plastic gets brittle or something. I considered buying a ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/waterpik-ultra-dental-water-jet.html I had my orthodontist appointment this morning. On my last appointment, the orthodontist asked if was planning on getting a bridge or an implant to replace my missing tooth. I told him that I had no idea, and that was why I had a whole dental team (dentist, orthodontist, periodontist). ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/getting-my-braces-off.html The other day I wen to clean my teeth with my Waterpik. I turned the Watepik on and something was wrong. Water was spraying on the wall. I thought I had the tip pointing in the wrong direction, but no. The hose was broken just below the handle. I didn’t ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/waterpik-hose-broken.html I had my orthodontist appointment a couple days ago. He was very happy with how my teeth are doing. The top front teeth are over the bottom teeth. The end is in sight. I don’t have a time frame or anything for getting them off, but I am getting there. ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/rubber-band-only-at-night-now.html I have my orthodontic appointment today. Yet more minor progress. The orthodontist seems happy with how things are going. I knew one bracket had come loose from a tooth on the upper left. I realized this a couple weeks again. But from where it was at, I didn’t think it would ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/orthodontic-appointment.html I had yet another teeth cleaning yesterday. It seem like I just had my teeth cleaned. I had to check my calendar to see. But my last teeth cleaning was back in February. I get it seems so recent because of all my other visits to the dentist. One visit ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/another-teeth-cleaning-another-cavity%e2%80%a6ack.html Last time I was at the orthodontist, my upper teeth had moved forward. So he put on a powerchain to close gaps. Well the gaps have pretty much closed, but the upper teeth moved back some in the process. This time, he installed a longer powerchain, and is having me ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/moving-top-teeth-forward-again.html When I got my teeth cleaned back on February 26th, the dental hygenist hist a spot that made me jump. I hadn't had any pain or anything. The only sign that something was wrong was when she hit the spot with a metal scraper probe thing. She said she thouhgt ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/intermittent-toothache-after-getting-filling.html When I had my teeth cleaned a few weeks ago, the hygenist (at my periodontist iffice) hit a spot with a probe that made me jump about a foot off the chair. She looked but didn't see anything at first. But looking closer she saw some decay next to one ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/cavity-filled.html At my last visit to the orthodontist, I thought he was going to start pulling the front teeth back together. But one of the side teeth had moved in, so he had to work on pulling it back out. So this visit, the side tooth was back where it was ... http://www.myadultbraces.com/power-chain-and-new-prosthetic-tooth.html