Oh Dear it’s not going well. Because I have not been able to wear my original night splints which kept my jaw aligned and with the addition of the bottom brackets my jaw has totally backfired and I’ve ended up with my neck locking up again and my trapezius muscle going into total meltdown. This was the original reason I sought treatment in the first place! The night splints truly did unlock my neck and release all the problems within 2 nights of wear so of course that is why I was convinced that fixing my jaw permanently into position would help, but right now everything has gone backwards. Literally!
So after a few weeks of progressively getting worse and worse in the neck and getting to the point when i can’t sleep and can’t sit or stand I just rang the ortho to find out if there were splints i could use just short term. They told me to come in later that day and talk to him. When I got there he ranted that I should have come in earlier and why on earth was I putting up with it! But of course as my boyfriend pointed out that everyone knows that orthodontics was supposed to hurt and everything else had been so painful so far so how was I to know which pain was acceptable or not!
He blocked up my back teeth to create splints out of the brackets and sent me away with very strict instructions to call him after the weekend and if things were not better then I was to return.
Middle Aged Lady with Braces 