My Invisalign Journey - Rockville, MD

Last Thursday, I finally got my crown done. My dentist cancelled the first appointment because she wasn't feeling well and then got grumpy that I couldn't reschedule my work meetings to come in sooner. You only work Mondays and Thursday, what am I supposed to do?? Whatever. After I got the crown done, I popped over to the Ortho because the crown was a bit larger than my tray. They took the impression for my bottom retainer, and then sliced off half of the tray so I could wear it on most of my teeth.

I had my normal appointment today where I picked up 5 more trays to fix that front tooth. There are no attachments on these. He said to come back in about 7 weeks so I guess I'll be wearing these for 10 days each.The trays actually came in about 30 minutes after I left on Thursday.

He said these should be the last, but there are 5 more after in case we need to tighten up the space in between any teeth. They also already had my bottom retainer ready so I got that too. They didn't explicitly say what type it was but the plastic baggy had a hand written label saying Essix retainer. It was tight feeling when I first put it on and I can feel some aches but I think that's pretty normal from reading other people's experiences with the retainer.

Did anyone read that to the tune of Shout? Cause I was humming 'a little bit louder now' as I wrote it.

Anyway, my ortho decided to we're going to do a few more trays on the top to get that one front tooth even with the other front tooth. He took off all the attachments, snapped off the button with some neat little tool (didn't hurt at all, just sounded like a pop) and then took an impression for the upper. I'm not sure how many trays the top will be again, but it didn't sound like a lot. His words were "It's like a hair off and I want them completely straight and perfect."

Since I'm getting my crown done on Monday, I go back on Tuesday to do an impression for the lower. The lower impression will be for the retainer because those teeth are done and my bite is where he wants it. If the crown doesn't fit the tray, they'll do a cut out around the crown so I can keep wearing the tray until the retainer is ready.

Went into my normal dentist for a small filling and left 3 hours later after a root canal. Awesome. Sadly, it wasn't my first one so I wasn't freaked out about the procedure. Apparently, it looked like a small thing on the x-ray but when she got in there she found a small line all the way to the nerve.

It's hard to tell if my mouth hurts from the root canal or if the dental resin isn't in the same shape as the tray impression. It's definitely shorter than what was previously there on one side cause I can see the gap. It doesn't hurt too terribly and I'm going into the ortho on Tuesday so I'm dealing. Pain level is about the same as putting in an aggressive new tray and they prescribed some extra strength ibuprofen in case I need it. I'm going back to the dentist in a week and a half to get my crown made while I'm there.

At my appointment on Tuesday, I'll let my ortho know that if he planned on taking impressions for the retainer, I'll need to come back after I have the crown in. If I need to wear this tray for 2 more months like he mentioned, I'll see if the dentist can use one of my older trays to make the crown. My bottom tray has been passive for a while.