My Metal Madness: A Trip to Scandinavia

So the elastics are back on to correct my horrific under-bite, and this time I needed to buy the Anbesol maximum strength because the pain was as excruciating as when I first got the powerchains on. The gel works very fast, but doesn't last very long; and the numbness feels weird because I still feel uncomfortable from the pain itself through the numbness. Also I don't know if you can spot them in the following pictures that I posted but there are three teeth (I think) that have a "powerchain" on which is basically the brackets that have two rubbers on instead of just one around the whole thing. There's one on the top, and two on the bottom, one on the left side and one on the right.

Yes I know, not very appealing never mind looking attractive! I know that when my teeth are all straight and in place I need to do a little shaving to my teeth to make them even, but even now as I look at them from up-close pictures I just want to cry because of all of the work that still needs to be done. However, on a brighter note I did notice that since yesterday's adjustment the gaps on the top seem to be closing in a lot quicker than the bottom ones. This progress helped relieve a lot of concern that I was having the past few adjustments. At one point I thought that the ortho office assumed I had those gaps prior to ortho treatment or something (because my ortho doctors switched), and no one was telling me anything (I have to ask all of the questions, which gets annoying sometimes, because I tend to forget what I wanted to ask until after I leave the office). I did ask how much longer that my braces would be on, and they told me next year they will be off, which is great because my aunt's wedding is 05-28-2012 and I would hate to ruin her pictures with metal (i'm one of the maids of honor). Well here are some pics of the progress: