My iMessage does not recognize my phone number under "send and receive"

I had to restore my iphone and now it is unable to connect to iMessage. It says "waiting for activation" and then it will fail. Under send and receive, my phone number appears to be clicked on, but does not have the check mark next to it.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4268

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