Off I went to work the next day with my new teeth. Completely pointless. $11k of dentistry hidden behind a bloody covid-19 mask!
At some point in the afternoon I took the mask off and had a look at my teeth. THEY’VE MOVED ALREADY! SHITE! I have gaps coming up at the front!
I freaked out and called the dentist and the lovely receptionist patiently told me that was why I had an appointment today for my retainer; as my teeth will move very fast If I don’t wear it! I figured this wasn’t the first time someone had rung up 24 hours later in a fluster……
I thought I was finished. They had wired up the back of some of my teeth and I was aware of the “Wear your Retainer” dogma that everyone tells teenagers but I thought retainers were those funny pink things with metal doodads. I still have my own teenage one. But clearly this is now 2020 and not 1982. And clearly it’s not the NHS paying for it either!
I now have clear little teeth guards that I have to wear as much as possible. Wearing them is no hassle, in fact I put them in and it felt slightly and un-nervingly reassuring. I felt like I had my braces back on and it wasn’t a bad feeling!
If my teeth do move even with the retainer they are going to reassess and perhaps put more permanent wires in the top part of my mouth too but they will see mw in 6 weeks and go from there.
You can’t really see them, I don’t really notice them, I can take them out for eating but I have to wear them as much as I can for a long time and then at night for the rest of my life.
After 2.5 yrs of being metal mouth and $11k?
Yeah, I can live with that.
Middle Aged Lady with Braces 
Ahhhh, you look so good! I’m sorry for the delay in commenting, but I count on an RSS reader to keep track of my blogs, and for some reason there is always a delay with yours, so your last three entries just showed up today.
Anyway…yes! Congrats! You look wonderful and your smile is reflective of how you must feel. 🙂
As for me, I go back for one last adjustment August 5, and if all is well at that visit, I get my braces off on August 31. I do like my braces but I am READY.
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haha actually I usually forget to write things on the day and then backdate them! So that’s probably why it seems late! Yeah you kinda get used to the braces in the end. they are just part of you and it’s like saying goodbye when they go. in a good way- like getting rid of clutter from the house but I was just worried that I wouldn’t like the result or it wasn’t finished and I’d have to start ( and pay) again and I might as well just keep them on while they were already there! Do you have a blog/photo gallery that you kept. Have actually found reading this blog interesting- as a memory and diary. I’d forgotten some of this stuff! was fun to remember!
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