No more appliance

Today was the big day....Paige got her appliance out. She sucked her thumb for her entire life until this point. It was her signature, the only child in this family who sucked her thumb. She is very unique with her own signature for everything why would this be any different. We tired numerous things before we finally took her to get the appliance. It was metal brackets bolted to her back teeth with four prongs that hung down behind her front big teeth. Every time she would try to put her thumb in her mouth it would poke and remind her not to do it. She had it in for 5 months or so and it broke, so we took it out while they fixed it and she immediately started sucking her thumb. So it has been about 8-9 months total for the appliance and today was the big day...she was asking to get it out and I think she will be fine. She has matured and grown so much this past year. I think she can handle it. Her bite has total straightened out and although it was a little uncomfortable getting it out....she is so happy now. Congrats Paiger....we are so happy you are no longer a thumb sucker even though you were so cute as a thumb sucker! As a baby she used to suck her thumb and twirl her hair...it seemed like yesterday :-)