After exactly one week of turning my MARPE, I finally saw a diastema (gap) form between my two front teeth!!! This means that the expander was incredibly successful and separated the maxillary bone! Woooohoooo!!
The week leading up to this was pretty eventful; here's a breakdown of my expansion....
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As some of you may know, moving forward I'll update my progress via video as well as blog posts (millennial behavior-sorry not sorry!). Following my "throwback video" theme (this actually happened in January)--after all my months of research and hunting down the right treatment plan and orthodontists, I was very excited to get my MARPE installed. Like, way too excited. It was a little weird. All I could think about was the possibility of a successfully maxillary split and seeing visible change. Here's a video I put together of the day I got my MARPE installed. Towards the end you can see how many orthodontic residents were gathering around to observe my procedure-really shows how incredibly new this technology is! Excuse my awkward speech at the end-I was a little tired and getting used to talking with the expander in (haha). I took some extra footage to make the video a little more fun and interesting :) Subscribe to my YouTube channel to stay updated on my videos! |
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