They're on!

Today I had my braces fitted. I have ceramic (clear) ones along the top 6 teeth and the rest are silver. As I have fillings and a crown in my back molars, Donna was unable to get bands around my teeth (even after wearing separators for the past two days) so she had to put an extra bracket on each of my back molars for the thermal activated wire to clip into.
My class of 5 year olds chose my coloured ligatures (bands that hold the wire in place) along my bottom teeth - they wanted 'rainbow colours', so thats what Kelly gave me! My own two daughters (aged 4 1/2 and 5 1/2) are pretty happy with my rainbow teeth too!
I got the wire clipped in about 2.30pm - nothing really hurt at all, so far I'm quite happy, although did have to have some icecream before to take some of the pressure off the thermally activated archwire! (Any excuse for ice cream the better really!) Hopefully they won't hurt too much overnight or tomorrow.
I'm back in a couple of weeks to the orthodontist to see that I'm cleaning my braces right and then again a couple of weeks after that to get new bands on! (Will have to decide which colour!)

Selfie with G in the background!

Rainbow power! (Notice how extra-crooked the bands make my teeth look!)

My before shot!

So here is my 'before' shot - the night before my braces were put on! Nice and crooked, but hopefully within the next couple of years I will have a new smile thanks to Donna Batchelor and her team!