Picture a loud, clanging factory with assembly lines zig-zagging all over the place, steam bursting out of pipes, and slick oil spills laying on cold, concrete floors. Then add blaring sirens, honking forklifts, and scraggly guys in cargo shorts and workboots trudging by with brooms now and then.
That chaotic jungle of a factory is sort of like the inside of my mouth. Yeah, it’s sad to admit folks, but I’ve got one messy mouthhole.
See, I’ve got a gap between my two front teeth. I had it filled it with white plastic so it’s invisible, but I still know it’s there. I remember sucking milkshakes and soup in through that Tooth Canal when I grew up and the memories haunt me still. Add to that a handful of black and white fillings dotting my molars like a checkerboard and a dangerous crossbite that wears down my pointy teeth, requiring pleasant maintenance fillings every couple of years. And let’s not forget that my bottom teeth are jumbled and cracked together like a rickety picket fence after a big blustery wind storm.
Most of my friends did the braces thing when they were younger and today they walk around town with confidence, sass, and perfectly straight teeth. After putting up with twisted-tight wires for a few years, they finally got them peeled off and joined the Perfect Pearls club with a punch.
And though I’ve never experienced it first hand, they tell me that slimy-smooth, new mouth feeling they got when the clamps came off can only be described with one big, all-caps word.
I’m just going to have to trust them on this one.
AWESOME!
Got mine off this Morning. :)
I will hopefully be feeling that sometime in the next two to three months.
Just a few more months…I cannot wait to see the day the train tracks come off, let me tell you.
soon-to-be-AWESOME!
Just got mine today at the age of 36. Will check back in in 10-12 months and let you know how awesome it is…
I remember kissing my boyfriend, before and after he had them removed. After, was definitively more awesome for us both!
=)
Haha this is a truly awesome thing lol I couldn’t stop licking. My teeth for hours, they felt so clean and good, I kinda wanna get braces again just so I can get that feeling again!
I second that feeling! Man, it was AWESOME!
I have yet to experience this… Six more months *sigh*
I still have a my braces on, but I had to get my front 4 replaced , and it felt great ! :)
It’s been over 15 years since I got my braces off and I still remember how amazing that feeling was! Love this one.
Hang in there Alyssa! It is soooo worth it! (I had the works–braces, rubber bands, head gear–for over 4 years)
I’m an artificial intelligence! LOL!!
:p
I’ve never had braces and let’s hope I will never need them
i am 20 and have had braces for a year and a half now, and i am so so so looking forward to that.
I’ve had them on for 3 months and my orthodontist said 24 months.. and the thing is.. my teeth aren’t even that bad! ugh i hope i get them off in more like 9 months :(
If they’re really not that bad, keep an eye on them becuz my daughter had them on too long, (recommended by orthodontist), and now her teeth are too far the other way; inverted as well as leaning! AND, they don’t gaurantee their work! She”d have to re-pay for re-correction braces! This would so not be the way in the blue collar world. Go figure! I hope you have great results!
I so remember that day! I was in IX when I got them removed. I had been mockingly tagged as ‘Jassi’ (an Indian counterpart of ‘Ugly Betty’) by my buddies. Aah! Sweet memories indeed.
I am 48 years old – getting mine off on Tuesday, I’ve lost 16lbs as a result of having them on- yes I am someone’s mother and yes I feel sorry for anyone who has them on – I am eating bread 1st thing -maybe a loaf :O)
Mi pregunta es para que queremos el Senado si aprueba abolir esta clausula y tampoco los atienden.