Two Mondays ago Patrick had a visit to the orthodontist. They took impressions of his teeth and put some spacers between his back teeth. The spacers are little teeny, tiny rubber band looking things. His teeth are very tight together so even those tiny things caused a bit of pain for the first day or two.
Yesterday we were back at the orthodontist to get his braces put on. He had been pretty excited about getting braces. He thought it would be "cool" and had been looking forward to it ever since we found out a couple of years ago that he would need them.
Patrick is one of the "lucky" patients. We have been doing preventative dentistry from the beginning - pulling baby teeth so the adult teeth would have room to come in straighter, and so forth. Because of this, he will only need to wear his braces for 6 - 12 months (that's the lucky part).
Now that he has his braces on, he's thinking it isn't quite as "cool" as he had previously thought! Getting his teeth ready for the braces was a painful operation to begin with. Now that they are on, he is experiencing even more pain. He has a couple of sores in his mouth from the braces rubbing and the pressure of the bands on his back teeth are making it difficult for him to chew.
He should be feeling better in the next few days but as you can imagine, he really doesn't believe that at the moment. Hopefully his mouth will be feeling well enough to enjoy the wonderful candy that Santa is sure to bring!
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