Just about 11 months ago Sean started his braces adventure with the spacers, the palatial expander and then a month and a half ago, the braces themselves.
Day one (Feb 2006) Before palatial expander
November 16th 2006 the braces are wired up (Post palatial expander and 4 wisdom + 2 extra bottom teeth extractions)
December 28th 2006. Oh my God look how much it’s changed in such a short time!
The progress has been nothing short of amazing so far. Sean’s Orthodontist said to me the day the braces went on “this will change his life” and she is so right. When she told me that by early in the new year Sean’s teeth would be pretty much straight I was blown away, I thought how could that be? Now I see how far he’s come in the last month and a half, yeah, now I believe it.
His journey is far from over, he still has to wear the braces up until he has the surgery to move his jaw sometime in the next year, then it’s maybe more braces and/or just the retainer, not to sure on that yet.
We both figure documenting this will be good for us to look back on and also to help out anyone who’s about to go through this themselves. We did research on the net and found other people’s stories, so maybe his story will ease the minds of another family somewhere out there.
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