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8.25.2004

Metal mouth

I finally have the full blown braces installed today. Looks cool except I can't chew well. My overbite's worse than I expected the top front teeth are hitting the appliance on the lower teeth directly below it. So it's either I eat Gerber baby food, rice cereal, soup or swallow my food whole. They won't see me again till October, I wonder how I will manage.

In the meantime, the ortho gave me a prescription to get my dentist to extract 2 wisdom teeth and one more first molar, she said to get it done soon. I am going by this day by day and not even anticipating what will happen in the next two years I am supposed to wear these braces. I just hope that the company I work for will last a few more and not lay me off until I'm done. Although not too much, we do have ortho coverage under our dental plan and how I wished I'd done this sooner.

The fun part about dental visits are the free stuff (well it's part of the whole deal) you get. Like a lollipop to help you get over the unpleasant experience. As if it can soothe the pain I'd have to deal with later.

Here's what they gave me:

  • Dual head toothbrush
  • Mouth mirror
  • Floss with floss threaders
  • Travel toothbrush
  • 3-minute sand timer (!)
  • Tiny spiral brush
  • Toothpaste
  • Ortho wax
  • Anti-cavity flouride rinse
  • and a prescription for a stronger flouride gel treatment

Now why haven't I heard about anti-cavity flouride rinse and gel treatments before? I could have prevented a lot of cavities there. As it is right now, I dread it when they tell me I need to get some fillings done. Scared not so much with the drilling but with the novocaine inoculation.

Then they bombard you with visuals of what happens when you don't floss, brush properly and rinse regularly. The pictures are enough to drive you to spend hours in front of the mirror relentlessly checking if you've missed a food particle or morsel between your teeth.

I keep revisiting my original question since I started treatment and still wonder why I pursued this --->Am I putting more harm than good to my teeth??!!!

Copyright 2004 Wandertrekker

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