Brace-Face

Last week we had our dentist appointment and we got the ok to take BOTH boys to the orthodontist. I was shocked that they said both boys as I was only trying to get the OK for Stephon. So Monday we called the ortho and we got in that night – they had a last minute cancellation. So we took the appointment. They did a thorough check on both boys and took lots of pics and got some x-rays done as well. With Stephon he has 3 baby teeth that are on the edge of coming out and because they are so close to popping out the doctor wants to wait a few weeks and see what happens. Once we get the ok with him he can go straight to braces. Thankfully for his dad and his perfect teeth to help cancel out some of the painful hardware that Ashton will have to get. Ashton has to get started on phase 1 of his mouth corrections. In March we are taking both boys back to get scans and molds made of their mouths / teeth. As soon as they do Ashton’s then he goes right back in to get hardware put on the top & bottom of his mouth to widen the jaws. He’s got his mom’s small mouth (small but still very loud like his mama) and with children they can widen the jaw to help all the big teeth fit in (he has my big teeth too – lucky him). He’ll have the hardware on his teeth for a few months and then he’ll get a turn key contraption. After that then he’ll get braces on his permanent teeth he has right now – top 4 front, top 2 back, and bottom 6 front. All of that should be less than a year. Then once he looses all his baby teeth he can go back in and get braces on again but this time on all his teeth. I was an adult when I got my braces so when they saw how small my mouth was they had to pull teeth in order for them all to fit in nice and neat. All Ashton cared about was NOT getting any teeth pulled. He did not care about all the hardware, getting braces twice or how bad this could hurt….he just wants all his teeth where they are!!