First appointment + got my spacers on!

So 2 weeks ago I booked an appointment with a well known orthodontist that had been reccomended by my friend and my mums workmate, I walked in and the vibe was amazing! It was bright, but not overly bright and it had a warm inviting feeling to it.

I walked in and after waiting, the manager talked to me about eating, cleaning, caring and many other things with braces and I was glad I was able to gain all this knowledge, knowledge to which I already had, but nonetheless it felt good to be reassured by her.

Afterwards my orthodontist came to check up teeth and honestly my teeth has never been that violated in my life. He probed around and around with his fingers, his mirror, and started talking code to the manager and my mind was at lost, but I was fine with it as long as he could check every spick and speck of my teeth. He then proceeded to tell me that I had crowding on my top back teeth; crowding on my bottom; and the canines would have to be pulled down. But one thing that was shocking was that he told me I actually had a missing tooth!

WHAT?!

All my life I had a missing tooth? Apparently, an average person had 6 lower front teeth on the bottom, but I only have 5. He told me it's because one of my tooth was too big and the other didn't grow (?) And that when my teeth straighten through the braces, my teeth alignment will be off a little bit and the centre of my bottom tooth won't align with the top. So it will be off a bit...

I don't know, but he said it was okay since because I've already lost one tooth, I don't need any teeth extracted, and we could continue on with the procedures.

Then boring payment stuff was talked about, how to take care then if we payed the record fees and a deposit we could get a mold of my teeth and get some before and after pictures.

So we did just that, we took pictures, stretched out my mouth for more pictures, they mixed up this mold that smelt like mint (but did not taste like mint) so they could get a mold of my teeth structure and such, then my orthodontist put the spacers in my back teeth.

At first it was a little weird and I winced because it was a little painful, they described it like having meat stuck in the back of your teeth and it was just that. After he put the 4 blue tiny spacers in, I rinsed and we payed and got some xrays done as well. The spacers are still in my back teeth now and in one week time they'll take them out so they can start putting actual braces in.

I'm excited and nervous all at the same time and hopefully the braces will go off before my year 12 formal next year. Let's cross our fingers hey x