This morning, I went to the orthodontist and had braces attached. I'm sort of unhappy, but it's for the best, so I'm glad I have them. Currently, I have a small, dull pain in my gums, which gets really bad when I bite down or touch my tongue to certain teeth. I will have to get them tightened every four weeks, which I hear is the most painful part. On the list of some of the things I can't have are caramel, popcorn, and meat on the bone. Oh well. Judging by that I've had to have 10 teeth pulled (that's right, double digits), I think I can say that I don't have good teeth. I'm hoping I will have straight teeth by the time I get the torture devise off. The process of getting the braces on was fascinating, though.
First, when we entered the building, I got in very fast. This surprised me, because at previous times I have been there, I have had to wait half an hour. So, I walked into the special braces room and sat down. The chair lowed to a bed-like thingy, and I opened my mouth. I had to bite down on the big rubber thing that stretched my mouth and was sort of uncomfortable. The first thing that happened was the woman who was putting on the braces cleaned my teeth with some sort of fancy toothpaste and suction-thingy. Then, over a while, she put glue on each brace and stuck it on my tooth. Then I got to pick what color I wanted for my braces. Because of the upcoming holidays (halloween and thanksgiving) I went with orange. She somehow put the orange thing on my brace, and then she attached the wire on my teeth. She then called in the the doctor, who is in charge of everything, and had him check the braces. He okayed it and I was off.
The weirdest part about it is that to close my mouth I have to sort of curl my lip around them, but I assume I'll get over that. Also, they sometimes scrape the inside of my mouth.
Uncomfortably,
Max
Beware Max, when you go through the security machine at the airport all kinds of lights and alarms will go off and they'll take you into a back room and frisk you and interrogate you and make you eat caramel to see if that metal thingy in your mouth are really braces and not some secret weapon thingy and then you'll miss your plane and then you will have to stay in some detention thingy until your parents and Charlie come back from a nice vacation hopefully to spring you lose but until then all you will get to eat is... you guessed it... BTW, in case they didn't tell you, that glue, it's mostly permanent so they have to use a hammer thingy and chisel thingy to remove them so you may have to replace some teeth with false teeth. Anyway, it will all be worth it. Right? Well it all happened to me and look how I turned out...
ReplyDeleteI've never thought about about how they get them on! Do they still make the glow in the dark ones?
ReplyDeleteJust think of it as a first world rite of passage--at least you're not going on a solo vision quest with just a knife and your wits...
ReplyDeleteAt the other end of braces you're that much closer to adulthood. Congrats, sore Max!