Drooling

Well at least the pain has subsided and things feel kinda normal. As much as they do when you have metal lego blocks attached to every tooth in your head. Visually they don’t look great at my age but I know from experience that no-one really cares. I feel more self conscious from the inside more than others make me feel aware of it. As one person said when they look at me they just think  “Oh, she has braces” and that’s it. Nothing more. So i just accept that I have braces on my teeth and no-one cares. I’m very aware of when i’m eating that food gets stuck in them and make sure I find a mirror pretty quick to do a spinach test but overall having the braces on the outside of my teeth is actually better than the rack on the inside so I feel this next stage is a relief compared to the last stage!

Only one snag; since my teeth are overly far forward for the length of my lips at the moment and my jaw won’t close properly because of the brackets I can’t actually seal my mouth closed. Which means I can’t “eat with your mouth closed” as we were all taught as a child and I’m sleeping like a mouth breather at night and end up dribbling! So.Not. Cool.

I have an elderly cat that dribbles all the time when she’s being petted as she has lost most of her teeth and i’m starting to see her point.

I did talk to another lady who has braces if she was dribbling at night too and she told me that she had applied fake tan before she went to bed and woke up in the morning with a pale streak down her chin!!

Mental note to self; Apply fake tan in the morning.