![]() With my wisdom teeth gone, though, it wasn’t going to take very long. Well, unfortunately we had to pretty much start over on the bottom. The process was literally less than 15 minutes and I had zero pain. R Dental does wisdom teeth extractions but not with anesthesia…yeah, terrified! When I came in they gave me a muscle relaxer and suddenly it was like I had just drank 3 glasses of wine….and everything was fine. I decided to take the risk and not have them removed first. She had warned me about this prior to starting, but there was a chance they wouldn’t be in the way. Leedia did not like telling me this, but my wisdom teeth needed to come out. Week 18 things went wrong. My lower teeth stopped tracking. It would take about 15 minutes & then she would give me my next 2 rounds of trays. I would come by the dentist each month to make sure my teeth were tracking according to plan. To give you some perspective, the tray is like a door, and the attachment is the doorknob. The trays can only move your teeth so much without these. After 2 weeks of wearing the trays day & night, we added clear little attachments to my teeth. We fit the first round to make sure they were comfortable and I was on my way. Invisalign estimated I would need to do 10 rounds of trays at 2 weeks each (20 weeks total). My top didn’t really bother me but Leedia told me they could use some slight improvement. I had only planned on fixing my lower teeth, but the Invisalign process is for top & bottom. Just like braces, we took impressions of my dog teeth. I had heard some horror stories but Leedia assured me my experience would be nothing like that. Clearly I wasn’t going down the braces route so Invisalign was the next best option. Leedia is also a perfectionist and so I knew she would be the girl for the job. I wouldn’t trust anyone to go near my teeth ever again after my experience with R Dental. Anything from a cleaning to extracting wisdom teeth (more on that soon) is done with the utmost care. She’s super camera-shy but I film her anyway and she still puts up with me! Their entire crew is like family to me, all so sweet and accommodating. I need my lavender oil, Justin Bieber playing in the background, a lot of chapstick, and she puts up with my obnoxious IG stories the whole time. I know, super weird, but let me just say this: I feel like I’m going to a spa, not the dentist. I already had a dentist ( R Dental Group) that I’m obsessed with. I love this…thank for you “liking” me happy □īut now, let’s get into the logistics. I love posting a smile with teeth, it’s so much more genuine & honestly, you guys seem to ‘Like’ my pictures more when I’m smiling with my teeth than a bullshit fake smirk. I still catch myself doing it out of habit, but then I snap out of it and smile full-on. You’ll notice in many of my pictures I heavily depended on the Smize, because I just wasn’t obsessed with my teeth. He even got Invisalign after braces and gave up on it! His dog teeth are ON another level! Ha! Lesson / Rule #1: Do not spend all the $$$ on your teeth if you do not have the discipline.įor the record, the exact same thing happened to Paul. My teeth shifted instantly and only got worse. It was dragging down my confidence on camera and preventing me from properly editing a video because I was so distracted by my damn dog teeth! The sad part is I actually had braces as a kid but my parents didn’t enforce my retainer, which is crucial. While maybe some of you didn’t even notice, I did, which is ultimately what matters. He thought (& still does) my teeth are fine and that I was just being crazy. In fact, to my knowledge, it’s not even a possibility. In all honesty, taking pictures for the blog is easy–you can edit a zit, you can fix a pesky hair, you can do / change just about anything with some decent Photoshop skills. BUT, I told myself that if YouTube was going to happen for me, which I really wanted it to, then I would get my teeth fixed with Invisalign. All I could focus on were my “dog teeth,” which I labeled them after a family member’s dog…I won’t mention who. About a year ago I had just launched my YouTube channel and was having a really hard time watching myself speak on camera.
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