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Awhile back, I submitted my braces transition video to a YouTube contest hosted by Wild Smiles brackets. They just released the results, and I won! Yay! Go me! Also, yay for my awesome dentist!

I’m de-braced and re-tainered! Yes, yes, I know that I’d previously mentioned a delay to May 20th. But, my dentist, once the retainer came in and all was well, arranged to stay late today so that we could go ahead and deband me. Next steps: Follow-up appointment in a few …

Not getting braces off today after all. Dental office just called…retainer didn’t come in yesterday like it was supposed to. They called the lab to check on what had happened this morning, and it turns out that the lab shipped it yesterday instead of shipping it to *arrive* by yesterday …

I’m getting my braces off this afternoon! Whee!

Today is the six month anniversary of me getting braces. Original plan was that I’d be getting impressions done for my retainer next week, but there was a problem while we were at the NABC in Detroit. One of my brackets came off (making eight that I’ve had come off …

OMG my teeth hurt. The good news is that at today’s adjustment, my dentist confirmed that this is my last month in braces. My teeth are almost done. The last few things are really minor, to the point that if the braces were bugging me, she could take them off …

I’m going in for an adjustment tomorrow, as well as a cleaning, so it seemed a good time for a braces update. Also, if you subscribe to “mytsukata” over at youtube, you’ll be able to see all of my braces videos, as well as any other videos I upload.