Impressions Pt. 2

I received a call at 11:30 am on 3/7/13 and I was super excited when I saw the dental office name on my phone screen. I thought my trays are in and they need me to go and pick them up. No such luck, my dentist needed me to come in and re-do the impressions/moldings. The first set of moldings had missing impressions of teeth and I was asked to come in and try it again. I took off an hour early from work and headed to the dentist office. I was dropped off by my husband, Henry dropped me off around 4:35. There was absolutely no wait time at all. I was seated right away, and the dentist and assistants went to work immediately. I remember the first set of impressions done was not the most pleasant experience but this one was a bit more unbearable. My dentist had decided to use the largest impression tray they had. It was very wide, so wide they decided to try and trim the edges to help it fit better. I was told that my mouth was very narrow, but was long. The large tray they used in the first set of impressions missed my back molars. My dentist used a dispensing gun to add the impression mix to the tray. They started doing the upper teeth impressions first. This wasn't so bad, they just had to keep adding mixing medium to the tray to try and get a stubborn back molar that didn't want to cooperate. The bottom impression was a nightmare, the tray was really wide and was adding a lot of pressure to my jaw and cheeks. I decided to bear through it and kept thinking "it'll be worth it". Afterwards they needed to take a bite impression so they used the gun dispenser directly on my teeth and asked me to bite down. All the extra mixing medium seeped through and I could feel it forming at the bottom of my mouth. This was very unpleasant. I was very glad when we finished. This took about an hour and half. The dentist told me that they just needed to send these new impressions to invisalign and my trays should be in and ready in 2 weeks. This put a huge 'crocked' smile on my face. The journey continues...

This is what the impression trays look like