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Orthodontics – The 2nd journey begins #LaurenGoFar #LaurenOrtho

March 19, 2019 by Wendy S

Our children were destined to need braces. Both Craig and I had braces when we were teenagers.

In April 2018, Rachel started her orthodontics journey. The estimated time for her treatment was one year. She had a bit of crowding that needed to be fixed and a little bit of an overbite. Dr. Bozek put on Rachel’s braces on April 18th and the current estimation is May 2019 to have them removed. Seems like just yesterday she was losing her first tooth!

Lauren was told that she needed to wait a year; she had to lose the rest of her baby teeth. In November, Lauren lost her last tooth. We called Dr. Bozek and set up an appointment. 

March 11th, the day after Lauren’s 12th birthday, we met with Dr. Bozek again. They took new x-rays and photos. They came up with a plan.

The plan.

Lauren’s treatment plan is going to take 2 years. Her little mouth has so much going on in there. 

The teeth on the top need the most treatment. The molars need to be moved outward. This allows more space to move the teeth at the front so that they are straight.

You can see the top molars on the right side are inside the molars on the bottom.

To move the molars outwards, they will be installing a pallet expander. 

But before they can do that, they had to put in spacers. These do exactly what they sound like they do. They create space between the molars. They need this space to put bands around her teeth that hold the expander.

Step 1: Spacers

Yesterday was the first step in her orthodontics journey. Lauren was nervous, but she climbed into the chair. She was in the middle chair and she carefully watched the two girls in the chairs beside her: one was getting fitted for her retainer and the other was getting a mould. Lauren was going to have to do this as well.

She said the mould material tasted like marshmallows and that it wasn’t that bad.

Orthodontics - Spacers

With Lauren’s dental history (6 cavities when she was only 6), I wasn’t surprised when the ortho technician told me that she flinched a little when she went to put the spacer in. Lauren is very hesitant when to comes to any dental stuff as she’s worried that it will hurt like getting cavities filled.

In the end, they were done and she was excited that they were turquoise. (I’ll post again about why.)

Filed Under: family, Life, peanut, teeth Tagged With: Bozek, Lauren, ortho, orthodontics, peanut, teeth

Broken or not broken? That is the question!

July 9, 2014 by Wendy S

Broken or Not Broken? @ mapsgirl.caOur church’s Sunday School Picnic in June, started off quiet quiet.  It was a cold, grey day and really didn’t feel like picnic weather.  We were determined to make the most of it. We had a great service with songs and skits and crafts.  Then a few of our Youth Group girls led grace and we had lunch.   As the kids finished eating, they started playing and running around.  The games hadn’t started yet, but they were having fun anyway.

Grey day gets greyer

Lauren comes walking up to me crying.   She had fallen and her arm hurt. When we took a look at it, we couldn’t tell what exactly she might have done to it. We packed up our things, and headed for the hospital.  After going through triage, they put a temporary splint on it and we waited.  IMG_0714

Not the first hospital visit, yet very nervous

Visiting the hospital isn’t new for Lauren.  But becuase the first two were very traumatic, she was very nervous.  She was worried that it was going to be painful, like the last 2 times when she got stitches. You can read about that here.

We reassured her that it wouldn’t hurt.  And we talked about what it would be like if she had to get a cast, what colour she would get and what she wouldn’t be able to do once she had it.  All of these were big “ifs” since we didn’t know if it was actually broken or not.  Lauren got called in to see the doctor and he sent her off for x-rays.

Broken or Not Broken? @ mapsgirl.ca

There was talk of growth plates and other things, and in the end, the x-rays were inconclusive.  She had to leave the temporary splint on it until Thursday, when she had an appointment at the fracture clinic. When you asked her, she said it hurt.  But it didn’t seem to bother her too much.

Appointment doesn’t mean what you think it means

So Craig and Lauren arrive at the hospital’s fracture clinic at 3pm for the appointment.  And the 10’s of other people showed up as well.   When Craig asked about Lauren’s appointment he was told that they just give people different times to come in throughout the day so that they don’t get bombarded all at once.  Ugh.  He was not happy. I’m not going to complain about our health care system, because the fact that we haven’t had to pay anything out of our pocket is fantastic.  However, if you want to have happier people in your waiting rooms, I would highly suggest they improve on their communication.   Craig found out from someone else in the waiting room that they could have just shown up at 8:00am and gotten her name on the list so much faster. After over 1 hour of waiting, Lauren was seen, and it was determined that it was a bad sprain.  She had to keep the splint on for another week. IMG_0805

Miraculous healing?

Thursday and Friday, the splint didn’t really hold her back.  We tried to get her to take it easy. On the Sunday afternoon, we had been working in the back yard and getting the patio furniture cleaned up.  Our neighbours came over an invited us for a swim.  I told Lauren that I’d confer with Craig to see how he felt about her taking her splint off.  He agreed that for a swim in the pool, she’d be okay for a little bit. As I was taking it off, Lauren tells me, “It hasn’t really hurt since before  Thursday.”  Really. And here is her entrance in to the pool: Make a splash! #WordlessWednesday @ mapsgirl.ca Make a splash! #WordlessWednesday @ mapsgirl.ca Make a splash! #WordlessWednesday @ mapsgirl.ca I’m glad it wasn’t broken!  But she definitely liked the attention!

Filed Under: family, Life Tagged With: broken, health care, Lauren

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Wendy is a cartographer! She draws maps!

When not mapping, Wendy is also a mom to two daughters. They are the inspiration of this blog. Passionate about child passenger safety, Wendy was a certified Car Seat Technician in Ontario, Canada from 2008 to 2020. [Read More …]

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