Teeth whitening

6th May 2015

I started whitening my teeth today. I have the polanight 16% carbamide peroxide gel. 

I was a little apprehensive after my boyfriend told me how painful his teeth were when he whitened his. This gel says that it has a unique blend of soothers, conditioners and a water content high enough to further reduce sensitivity. 

Sounds good right! 

I put a small amount of gel in the retainers as the instructions stated and put them in my mouth. I followed the instructions and left them in for 90 minutes. l think I was a little too cautious with it because the gel was mainly near the edge of my teeth when I removed them. I will put more in tomorrow. I didn't experience any sensitivity really, only a little in my front tooth. Might be because I didn't put enough in :-/. 

Here is day 1 of whitening. 

Day 2 

I put abit more in today and spread it around a little to make sure it went on evenly. Whitened them for around 60 minutes tonight, had no sensitivity at all :). 

Month 31

16th April 2015

I have been so excited for today..... today was the day I had my braces off.

Max started by taking the lower brackets off which just popped off. The ceramic braces were a little more difficult and needed some grinding off. The left molar band didn't want to budge and Max had to grind it to weaken it!

It took an hour to get them all off and was a little uncomfortable pulling the ceramics off. It was all worth it when Max handed me the mirror, I really couldn't believe they were my teeth. I have always seen people's nice straight teeth and never thought mine would ever look like that even after braces.

Max then fitted my upper bonded retainer and took moulds for my retainers.

Here are my before treatment pictures (cringe). Can really see how prominent they were here.

My teeth after braces :) I couldn't be happier. I can't stop feeling them with my tongue and looking at them.

 

 

I am getting an extra set of retainers made to start whitening them, I will blog my progress once I start.

22nd April 2015

I picked my essix retainers up today, the bottom one hadn't arrived so It will be mailed to me next week. I am to wear them full time for 2 weeks and then just at night. 

28th April 2015

I received my lower retainer today in the post. Wow it was tight at first I thought is this someone else's 😳. It took some pushing and I got it in. Very painful to take it out and has irritated my gums. My ortho also asked me to write a testimonial for their website. Here are my teeth with my retainers in. 

1st May 2015

My lower retainer has started to feel lot more comfortable and looser. I will start whitening them soon now that my gums are feeling better.  I feel so much more confident with my new teeth, best decision I have made.