Here We Go! Tray 1 Day 1

Well...it has begun!  I went in for my appointment at 4 to get the buttons put on my bottom teeth and to get my first set of aligners.  When the put the thing in my mouth to open my mouth up I was very confused when they started putting the cement on my top teeth.  After the ortho's hand was clear from my mouth...as best I could I said, "I thought I was only going to get it for the bottom teeth today?"  After much talking back and forth with another girl they said that the first three aligners for my top teeth wouldn't do any moving but they were sent by Invisalign anyway.  After all the going back and forth and one of them saying "Should we ask the doctor?" they just went ahead with it.  

Making the buttons- I thought that the buttons would be actual little things they cement onto my teeth but it wasn't.  What they do is they put some cement (or whatever it's made out of) in the general area on the teeth needing the buttons and then they put on an aligner with the slots where the buttons will go.  They then press it on so that the cement goes into the slots which shapes the button the appropriate way.  There is a series of spraying, sucking, blue light stuff that happens but I forget the order.  After leaving the aligner on for a few minutes, they pop it off (with some applied force) and the buttons are done.  

They did the buttons for the top and bottom but two of them on the bottom wouldn't stay on so they had the doctor come.  Then the talk about it only being on my bottom teeth began again.  The doctor said, "Yes because the first 3 aligners for the top are ones that don't move the teeth but they make them together so they sent them anyway."  When she realized they did the buttons for the top teeth she said, "You didn't think to ask me before?"  All of this was annoying but whatever...she told me that they could take them off if i wanted after I felt what they were like.

The doctor did the two buttons that kept popping off and then got rid of the excess cement (I think) and then she went on her way after talking a little more.  The girl who had done all the buttons came back, gave me my next set of aligners and cases, and explained them.  She began to take the bib off of me before I asked about making it so I only had to wear the top.  She then proceeded to help a mirror while I tool the top aligner out.  She clearly didn't realize I meant that I wanted the buttons gone too. Clearly the last thing they wanted to do was to take them off and then put them back on in a few weeks.  BUT...me being me...sorry...I don't want to wear an aligner that's not going to do anything and I don't want little things stuck on my teeth just for the sake of being there.  Had I not mentioned anything I would understand them leaving them there.  It was the fact that I brought it up right when everything got started and they didn't listen to me.  It was a misunderstanding and was the only real hiccup of the process but all is good now.

As far as how things are going...so far so good.  They're not that hard to take out.  I think I'm still doing to very gently for a fear of breaking something.  But it's certainly not as hard as people have made it seem.  I didn't feel any pressure at first but now I am starting to...still very very little.  It might be more in the morning when I wake up but it's all part of having a perfect smile. :)  My speech isn't affected too much.  I feel like I'm saying the /s/ sound a tiny bit different but nothing too drastic.  That will go away in a day or two.

Pros
-not as bad as people made it seem
-buttons aren't as big as I thought they would be
-my teeth will be super clean from constantly brushing (haha)

Cons
-ortho not listening to me! (haha)
-spit bubbles inside the aligner