Braces for Molly

Molly with the spacers

Spaces up close and personal
Getting the back brackets
Smiling with the back brakcets in place
Yuck -- the pallette expander

Front brackets without wires yet

The pallette expander sure did make a gap!!

Expander cemented and front wire in place

Making great progress!!!

** These pictures are from right before Thanksgiving through mid December. ** Molly has started her orthodotia treatment. In comparison to Abby's one year of braces time (not including retainers), Molly's three year treatment plan sounds a little more intense. Molly's mouth is too small for all of her teeth, so she has an entirely different process than what Abby has. Molly started out with expanders to make room in between her molars for brackets. Next she got a pallette expander, which does exactly what the name says -- it expands the pallette to make more room as I had to crank the contraption twice a day. Then the expander gets cemented and then braces start pulling teeth together to make room for adult teeth of which she still has the baby teeth. Molly has been a trooper with this whole process. She's counting down the days until she gets the expander out in March. It's expected she will get brace brackets on all of her teeth sometime in 2011.