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| Creepy Psycho Smile: One of the hallmark signs of a braces noob |
I got my braces last June 12 and I am only blogging about it now because well, I'm lazy. First off, many people are wondering why I got braces since I am usually categorized under "People with Good Dentition".
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| Go ahead, bask in the glory of my good dentition. |
Apparently like most fat kids' pictures on facebook (mine included), my good dentition was only an effect of angular deception. If viewed from a socially acceptable angle, my teeth look perfectly aligned and cute as fuck but if you look at my teeth from an angle medical professionals are only allowed to look, you'd see that my teeth aren't really that cute as fuck.
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| I have an overbite and the alignment of my teeth has a mild case of can't be tamed. |
Since my dentist is also my aunt, she can't have it on her honor as a DMD that her niece has not-so-perfect dentition so I let her put some torture corrective contraption on my teeth. The process wasn't as long as I thought it would be which was just shy of 3hours. Afterwards, I felt like a cyborg and the OS for my mouth hasn't been installed yet. Everything about my mouth was suddenly awkward. What are teeth and how do they function? And my tongue suddenly became such an intrusive presence that I can't help wondering what was it doing pre-braces. After sometime, sores dominated my oral mucosa. As in singaw, singaw, singaw everywhere. The pain was initially so distracting that I had to be fed painkillers regularly to tone down my irritability to not-murder-everyone level. I wasn't able to eat anything solid for the first week because of the mutiny my oral area was having because of the annoying metal thing I forced on them. My diet consisted of only soup, tea, ice cream, and ortho wax. At first it was all good since I love the first three and ortho wax doesn't really taste like anything so meh but it got tiring to eat only soup after a while so I tried eating apple mash with honey which my brother called baby food.
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| I'd punch a baby for this heavenly baby food. |
It was good though and my mom was really supportive of my temporary disability and made food that are easy to chew and digest. After the first week, I was able to chew a bit and I moved on to more solid food for my nutrition. Ice cream never went away though because well, ice cream.
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| Triple Threat: Delicious, Dulls the pain of mouth sores, and Leads you to the path of Type II Diabetes |
Now, I can already eat most of my previous diet. I still can't bite hard food and I avoid leafy veggies because they enjoy hanging out within the nooks and crannies of my braces. I just had my first McSpicy last Thursday so I'm happy with my progress to regain control of my teeth. However, I ate my McSpicy in a way that cannot be described as poised or elegant so I still have work to do.
BTW Protip: Use Tea Tree Oil to treat your sores. Just dab some using a cotton swab on the sore. It hurts a lot upon application but it will be painless afterwards and the sore will heal in no time. And no matter what they say about good girls, DO NOT SWALLOW. Just spit the accumulating saliva that might have tea tree oil. It just takes 2-3mins before it is safe to swallow or ingest anything so it's not that hassle. Reapply when sore starts to hurt again. You're welcome.
