HeyBuckey!'s Story

HeyBuckey! · **Posted:** Thu Feb 04, 2010 3:02 pm

Well everyone,

Today, is the BIG day!!! I get my extractions at 5 pm MST. I'm not shaking yet, just delightfully nervous

. For once in my whole journey I'm nervous about something. I even looked forward to my adjustments and the pain associated with it! Oh well!!! I guess I'm bound to lose some teeth eventually if old age doesn't do it for me :lol:

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I'm signing off now, I still have almost too much work to do and food to eat in preparation of my big debut!

Wish me luck that I don't start shaking in my lil boots

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Yay! It's a week and a five days past my 4th month anniversary for my uppers! What a coincidence

HeyBuckey! · **Posted:** Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:36 am

Ola ladies and gents!

I'm not as perky as my introduction says that I am...I'm pretty sleepy in spite of the fabulous night of sleep I received last night. This is a recap of the events that occured yesterday for my BIG appointment.

4:45 I check in, begin to sweat just a little, and take my seat
4:55 I realize I left my extraction request at home :shock:

Oh Crap!
4:59 I walk to the receptionist and begin asking what I should do if...
5:00 I'm called back before the words leave my mouth

5:01 The assistant asks me an important question "I have an important question. Do you have the paper you received from your Orthodontist stating which teeth we are supposed to pull?" :shock:

Oh Crap again!
I respond: "I left it at home (insert sad puppy eye face here), but the teeth to pull are the ones without the brackets."
5:02 The assitant responds "Uh oh, come with me." By this time I'm sweating a little more.
5:05 A call was made to my Ortho's office who's a part of the chain my dentist works at. They were going to fax the paper work and the wait is on!
5:10 All this excitement makes me need to tinkle before I get my teeth pulled. Not to mention I'm sweating and shaking now.
5:15 A doc comes over and says they don't have my extraction request on file, AND I was supposed to receive one from the doc.

WHAT?!?! Then she asks me if I want to speak with them. You dawg gone skippy I do!
5:17 After some yelling and telling the lady at my Ortho's office that Camel Cowboy didn't make a copy of my extraction request and having them grill me everytime I went in to get the stupid teeth pulled she tells me to go over too their office to get ANOTHER extraction request.

WHAT?! I'm on public transport but it's up the street and I might be able to do it. I get off the phone. One of the receptionists is trying to reschedule my appointment :shock:

What?! I told her I really want to get this done and over with today so...She gets my doctor

5:20 My doc looks in my mouth and sees the teeth that are to be removed and...HE OKAYS ME! YES!!!!!!!! Oh wow! This is really going to happen at this point. So I pay for my teeth and am sent back to the room but a patient is in the chair "HURRAY!" By this point, I just want to get this over. I was sweating, frustrated, nervous, and I had a headache at this point.
5:23 I sit back down in the payment area. My bladder was doing some overtime because I had to tinkle AGAIN!
5:27 As soon as I step out of the restroom the assistants tell me to grab my stuff because they have a spot saved for me. I'm now officially scared, sweating profusely and shaking.
5:31 Some other doctor got my numbing meds administered
5:33 My doc check the site again to see which teeth to pull again and to check out how numb I am. I ask "Am ah shupposh tah feehl da woof uh mah mouf?" He says no and says "I'm gonna give you something else on top of what we just gave you."
5:35 He pulls out some weird looking device and sticks it on the inner part of my mouth. I didn't feel much until he went to the right side where it burned a little.
5:37 The doc proceeds to yank on my teeth, not a good deal. I told him it didn't feel too hot and he numbed it some more. It must've been in their pretty good because he got an assistant and did a little drilling.
5:40 The doc knows I'm really numb now and did a little loosening on each side.
5:45 After some more pressurized yanking and my doc saying "You're too calm." I guess I should've panicked a little more :roll:

then...Surprise! Number 12 comes out. I say "Was that it?" Wondering why it hurt more for him to wiggle it than to dislodge it.
5:47 Surprise again! Number 5 popped right on out.

After the run down on what to do from the assitant I grab my things and head out to the waiting room. I was contemplating if I should call someone to get me until I walked out into the waiting room. Geez! Everyone's head turned like I had called them individually. The worst part is I couldn't feel my upper lip and thought my upper lip may have resembled The Joker's from the Batman Movie that was made in the 90's. Was that Jack Nicholson who did that one? I think so...Anywho. This adorable young one kept staring at me. I wouldn't have felt so bad if I could give her a real smile. Instead I was only able to make my eyes and bottom lip smile. That must've looked ridiculously special

. I decided to catch the public transport home and waited outside on the information line for about 9 mins until the bus came. My fingers were froze and my face wouldn't move in certain spots. I was NOT a happy camper. Not to mention I feared drooling. I tried my very best not to look at anyone and when I got off the bus I covered my face with a scarf (great idea!) I went to the store to get some ibuprofen for when the drugs wore off and some blistex because it was a dollar and headed home. I get home cleaned and tried to take the gauze out to put some clean gauze in. I thought my gums bled alot with my flossing incident. Boy was I wrong! My dentist's office calls it oozing I call it I need 911 before I bleed to death. I shoved some more gauze in the gaping hole on each side and left it there the whole night while I slept.

In spite of some very minor discomfort and the strange way missing teeth feel, I made it out just fine. Now if only the holes would close at the speed of light...I'm gonna try not to smile for weeks! That's all for today's incredibly long post!

Happy 4th Month Lower Row!!!

opera^gal · **Posted:** Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:38 pm

I hope you've had a nice long exhale now that *that* is over and done with...all the fear and dread and it reads like it went without much of a hitch (paperwork not withstanding). Hope you are feeling better and that not only do the holes heal, but the teeth moving into those spots, do so with ease and speed! Abracadabra--overjet be gone! Poof! (did it work yet?)

HeyBuckey! · **Posted:** Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:50 am

Hi Opera^Gal!

I have to tell you, I am so excited you stopped by. I had a ton of anxiety before going to that appointment and I could only think to write. I am doing much better since Thursday and I plan on posting an entry about my post-"ORAL" surgery, as the package of gauze stated, momentarily. I do have to say I am really relieved that the extractions are OVER!!! Now I can't get on with the rest of my treatment since it depended on getting these teeth pulled. It was fairly quick and simple once I let the docs do there job

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Darn it! It didn't work yet! Maybe it needs a little assistance

. My next Ortho Appt is next Wednesday. I'll let you know how that overjet is looking

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Until Next Time!!!

HeyBuckey! · **Posted:** Mon Feb 08, 2010 1:32 pm

Hi All!

It's been 4 days since my extractions. In my last Adventure I stated everything that happened during my appointment. The real comedy came afterwards. Starting with my phone call to bus information. May I say my upper lip was experiencing temporary paralysis because of those fab miracle working drugs they use. I waited on hold for 9 minutes before someone answered and to make it worse while waiting I began drooling while I anxiously paced the sidewalk practicing how I was gonna get the point across clearly with as little bit of slurring as I could. Thankfully the Operator answered and as I was talking to her the bus pulls up. I lucked out and got a seat right up front where I wouldn't have to face anyone with my Joker like dispositon. My upper lip felt monstrously large and when the first bus was coming to my stop I wanted to see if the driver would let me off at the corner since a) it was cold and dark and b)I didn't feel like crossing that street to get to the other side with a paralyzed lip. Well the driver wouldn't let me off. I had to stand on a corner and freeze for 2 mins when he finally stopped. When I got off the bus I had the genius idea of putting my scarf over my face to hide my smirk. When I got to the next bus stop I had 18 mins until the next bus came so I went to get my meds to maintain a drugged state

. I grabbed what I needed and went to stand in line. I didn't take my scarf off the whole time I was in there hoping my lip would come back to life...well...it didn't. I stood between two registers because the one on the right seem to be going really fast and the on the left was going painfully slow. There was a lady behind me who couldn't tell that I was waiting for the next available cashier so she ransacked her buggy into the cashier to my right. After the slow cashier rang up the couple before me with a strange selection of items (looked kind of like cat food and slippers) and it was my turn to be rang up. Rollerderby buggy lady then noticed I only had two small items in my hands and apologized for cutting me off. I said it was ok and proceeded to be checked out. I walk out the store with my scarf still intact although I kept having to pull it up to mask my lip, and walked back to the bus stop just in time to freeze some more. My lip wasn't any less paralyzed than before I left the office. If anything it was worse.

I get on the bus and what is sitting on one of the front seats? Someone cute. Very cute. I buried my face into my scarf even further and tried to shake off the idea that he may have been staring at me. :roll:

As soon as that bus stopped, I hopped off and made a b-line because I thought the bus was going to leave, leaving me stranded with a cold upper lip that wouldn't move even if it had to. To my surprise, the driver stepped away from the bus for a sec so I arrived just in time for him to leave. I ended up talking with this lady who thought she was going to be stranded as well. Or should I say she talked to me? I couldn't say much but to make much more entertaining, I didn't understand a thing she was saying either :lol:

. She had a very thick accent and was saying something about public transportation leaving the passengers. I think. Anywho, she gets off the bus and a few stops later I get off the bus and begin my five minute walk home.

When I arrive, I put my things down and contemplate taking that nasty gauze out of my mouth and checking out my new wounds but I held off for a few minutes because I had some cleaning to do. Afterwards my sister decided she wanted to go to Sonic's for a burger. Then my jealousy set in. I changed my gauze before we left and of course my sister comes over to see what my new holes look like. I take the gauze out and it immediately started "oozing" as my package says and my sisters all like "LET ME SEE! LET ME SEE! Let me see!" I show her my now bleeding mouth and what does she say? "Ugggghhhh!" I didn't want to bleed to death so I tried to turn away and she insisted on looking at my mouth! Awkward...We pack up and head to Sonic's and the food smells so good. I had never smelled anything so heavenly that I couldn't eat

. I was ready to cry at this point not to mention I was experiencing discomfort and wanted to lay down. I eventually got to bed and woke up feeling refreshed until about 9:30 in the morning when the pain started, I was more irritable than in pain because I got drowsy shortly after my face started feeling funny. I popped a couple of ibuprofen and called it a day. That night I had soup and a large chunk of softened but not soft enough carrot got caught in my empty space on the right. OUCH!!!!!!!!!

I even got called Snaggle Tooth all weekend. Lucky me!

As you all know I have a problem "Not eating". Friday I took it kind of easy and enjoyed soup all day (I had crackers later on that night too :oops:

). By time Saturday Night came I was feed up. After hanging out with some friends I went to Sonics and successfully at a hamburger. I was so excited. Superbowl Sunday (GO SAINTS!!!) I had pizza, chicken wings and chips which was not a good idea seeing a piece of chip got caught in my empty hole on the right. Imagine howling in pain when there is a room full of people and a commercial going on. :oops:

No one understands the phenomenon of getting your teeth pulled.

alibracket · **Posted:** Mon Feb 08, 2010 3:02 pm

Oh Sonics. Reminds me when i went to Arkansas and ate my first Sonic burger.Yum yum burgers.

I cant believe the extractions are finally over! Hopefully its all smooth sailing from this point on. It seems like just yesterday you were introducing yourself. Time flies- I hope those holes close quickly. I cringed when i heard about the carrot getting stuck up there. ouch.

Cant wait for pics!

HeyBuckey! · **Posted:** Wed Feb 10, 2010 10:04 am

Alibracket! Hello and welcome

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I really enjoyed that burger too! I don't seem to do very well on liquid/soft food diets at all. The burger was as soft as it got this weekend

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I do have to admit, even though I got chips and Cinnamon Toast Crunch jammed into my extraction holes, the soft carrot hurt the worst. I had only had the new wounds for a little over 24 hours and they were still extremely tender. Other than that, everything is smooth sailing! You are right. I can't believe it's been 4.5 months since I got braces when I look at my old pics I can't believe how much better my teeth look today than they did when I started out. I don't even recall what it felt like before I got braces. What's sad is I was convinced that my teeth didn't look that bad. Talk about being in denile!

Anywho!
I'll take a shot at posting my toothless grin pics later on this evening!

Until next time!!!

HeyBuckey! · **Posted:** Fri Feb 12, 2010 5:08 pm

Hey guys (and gals

) Do you wanna see my extraction holes? Well, even if you don't here they are!!!

Left Side

Right Side

Open Wide!!!

I saw my yellow bicuspids and thought how horrible of a job I'm doing at flossing! I need one of those Butler floss brushes. A waterpik sounds great but learning something new would really do me in right now...

On my next adjustment I'll show you all how the holes have healed since being yanked out of my face :lol:

That's it for today!!!

HeyBuckey! · **Posted:** Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:06 pm

I was booted to the second page.

But I'm back on top now!!!

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Here are my pics from my last adjustment! Sorry for the delay I was and still am having some issues with my web album but I found a loop hole! School is also in session and I am running on very little fuel. I need an IV that's loaded with caffeine. Straight, no saline included. Coffee just makes me want to nap so that is my only option

. Anywho!!! Check this out!

The very pretty front view (now the right is longer than the left...yay :roll:

)

Left side. Check out those lumpy extraction gaps. Those oughta be fun to close

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Right side. This is not very good lighting. I'm sorry in advance if it's hard to see.

Aaaaaahhhhhh!!! Another bite pic. Soon! That will change!

Mmmmm...Extraction holes...One of them looks like I had just indulged in a cracker :shock:

. I should've did a search before taking this pic...

What I'm going to show you is semi amazing. These are before and after of my forgotten bottom row.

Before:

After:

Lookin good! More than anything I could definitely tell right after my appointment that my arch was widening. The dog gone wire is ridiculously thick and hurt pretty bad. Never the less I managed to eat a crunchy granola bar when I got to class.

Happy 5th month to my upper row! Hopefully I remember to wish myself a happy bracerversary when the year comes by. Knowing myself I probably won't :lol:

That's all I have today ladies and gents! Happy brushing!!!

HeyBuckey! · **Posted:** Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:02 am

Nightmare on Metal Street?

I had a dream the other night, I bit into something and my bottom right 2nd bicuspid began to crumble. I had chunks of tooth everywhere. To make it worse along with the chunks of tooth, my first molar on the same side wiggled and came on out by itself.

Talk about Going Rogue... :twisted:

I woke up in a cold sweat making sure everything was intact...

Tell us some of your teeth dreams (or nightmares)!!!

tori*anne · **Posted:** Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:24 pm

OMG. I have probably dreamt a dozen or more times that I go to talk in front of a huge crowd, and my teeth just crumble out of my mouth like crackers! Waaaah! I HATE those dreams!

HeyBuckey! · **Posted:** Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:50 pm

Ooohh! Now that is scary tori*anne. To make it worse you were in front of a crowd of all places.

What's up with these strange teeth dreams anyway? I know it's a dream but a logical explanation would do me good

. I don't recall my teeth crumbling (like crackers

) or wiggling out before I got my bling.

That one takes the cake! Anyone have one that's their first nightmare, one that's baffling, or equally scary? If so...please share I encourage you too

I'm off to check out tori*anne's thread now! Note to self, in 2010 I gotta support those who support Good Ol' Buckey!

~Ciao~

HeyBuckey! · **Posted:** Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:19 pm

Here's a just because moment from Heybuckey...

After examining the person next you's teeth, you ever feel like striking up a conversation JUST BECAUSE you want to tell them they are in dire need of braces?

After examining the person in front you's teeth you ever feel like continuously staring inspite of the uncomfortable look they have on their face JUST BECAUSE you know they can benefit from braces but seem to be in denile?

A day in the life of Buckey is very eventful. Might I add entertaining

Oh yeah! I got a camera. I felt like saying that JUST BECAUSE I feel technically challenged and can't work it, and I now want to take a picture with any and everybody who's sporting the metal goods. :lol:

HeyBuckey! · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:40 am

Hello All!!!

Today is the big day my Ortho's office will begin to turn Buckey into...uh...uh...something else

. I should probably pick out a name for myself post treatment

Maybe it'll be HeyBabe! :lol:

Right...That'll be the day.

Anywho, bring on the torture devices!!! I'm to understand, the devices being used on my teeth will shreadeth my jaw

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They didn't say those words EXACTLY but I know how to read between the lines, especially when they tell me to take ibpruofen half an hour before my appointment in spite of my high tolerance for pain...

I got a new camera so hopefully it'll work better to get my teeth pics up and running. YAY!!! I don't have to use my temperamental phone and cheesy web album that I can't access from my laptop! Now, if only I could figure out how to make the zoom button work without the pic getting all blurry on me

. I can be so technically declined sometimes :roll:

See you all post appointment!

alibracket · **Posted:** Mon Mar 15, 2010 1:47 pm

Glad to see your teeth moving along. Does your bite feel different?

Maybe i should fly to colorado and pretend to be you. That way my teeth can get some attention

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