Jaw Jigsaw

Don't know why the orthodontist thought it was a good idea to rubber-band my crown that had only temporary cement on it.... So it came loose on Wednesday night. Called ortho frantically and they just HAPPENED to be at my office on Thursday afternoon. They are only there every 6th Thursday. So weird. So he said there was really nothing else he could do so he unhooked the crown (and changed my band configuration) and I took it with me to my dentist. Yes, I took a photo of it. ;) FOR MY BLOG OF COURSE. Hahahaha.  Just let me say that my dentist is amazing. I have never had any problems with anything he's done in my mouth. He is the sweetest and just shoulder surgery like 4 weeks ago and is already back in the office. He can't raise his arm very far but he doesn't need to while working on people's mouths I guess, haha.  So he had my crown back on in like 5 min and it didn't even hurt even though my tooth was so sensitive to air and liquid. And my de...

I sneezed! My jaw didn't fall off! Accomplishment. Lol. So things aren't great. I don't know if it's going back to work or something else but I am miserable. Also have a head cold/sinus infection. Or something, lol. Some bad things have been coming out of my nose, haha. Pain: Yesterday I was crying my face/jaw was hurting so much. Not sure why. It seems to have subsided today. Everything on my face was just burning and aching. It was like my tooth abscess all over again. So that was fun. No pain medicine helped. I was going to call the doc this morning if it wasn't better, but it was. I'm going in to see him tomorrow anyway. Headaches on top of headaches. I think I've just been pushing myself too hard. Taking care of Amelia and going back to work. Numbness: I have a lot more feeling back. Just under my eyes and a little under my nose is numb. I contribute some of the pain to that factor. It's mostly my lower teeth in pain. Can't really complete...

So I was thinking about my braces- and how annoying they are. And that got me thinking about when I used to have braces in grade school/high school. They were the best at killing my self esteem. I don't even remember when I got them. 7th grade? I'm pretty sure I had them for about three years though. That's a really long time. And now here we are again. My current orthodontist said that my older orthodontist did as much as he could with the tools he had, but the underlying problem is my jaw- not the teeth. Jaw surgery was never really on the table as an option and was not mentioned. I still had tons of cavities, but they didn't really affect the integrity of my teeth too much. And now- after three crowns, one root canal and DOZENS of fillings- we're finally getting to the "root" of the problem. The reality is that I would be in dentures by the time I'm 40 if I continued down this path. I couldn't even find an old photo of me with braces. Th...