A game called "waiting"

After finding out that my wisdom teeth can stay in, and feeling wiser for it (punny!) I make my next appointment to get photos and moulds taken of my chompers, so they can be sent to America and Invisalign can do their thang promptly and efficiently and send back my aligners. Hmm. So, after three minutes of goo on my bottom teeth and gloved fingers in my mouth, my ortho tells me to relax as he pulls the bottom moulds out. RELAX! It feels like he’s trying to pull my head off! Thankfully the bottom mould turned out good, so he moved onto the top. With gooier goo. After another three minutes of goo running down my throat and a strange man’s fingers touching my tongue, he pulls the top mould out only to find it didn’t work so good.

Time for round too, and what do you know, the same thing happens again. By now I have a grumpy partner sitting in the waiting room, a stomach full of blue goo, and a sore jaw. Thankfully it was third time lucky, and I was left to sit and pick out the blue gunk from my teeth on the trip home.

Waiting, waiting, waiting. After a month (It’s meant to take around that long) I rung up to ask where my aligners were. Long story short, my ortho sent the images in the wrong file format, and the people in America didn’t tell him until he inquired as to the whereabouts of my aligners as I did to him. He sends the pics again in a different format (why can’t they do it themselves over there?) and two weeks later I received an email containing my ClinCheck videos. Wow! To see my teeth move before my eyes and know what they will look like after was such a huge buzz! I was anticipating getting my aligners the next week. 

Two weeks later, however, I hadn’t heard from them still, so I rung. My aligners were on a boat, heading to New Zealand as we speak, the lady told me, and they will be here very soon. Another two weeks pass. This morning I rung them again, still nothing. 

Has anybody had a similar experience? I am of course “high priority” when they come in. Is it always this slow or am I just special?

Me: Oh, the crookedness!