Sunday, February 26, 2006

Braces are deadly

according to me pleasures can be lost quite rapidly like the pleasure of having free teeth, i have braces, deadly, killing, unenjoyable, braces. so on my monthly tightening this month i got spacers that's where they squeeze your teeth together and it hurts. verry. bad. did any of you have braces? if so please tell, and share.

12 comments:

Cicada said...

Ugh. I had braces when I was in 8th and 9th grades. I had spacers, head gear, some permanent retainer thingy in the roof of my mouth... the whole thing sucked. I was expecting them to come off at some point, but when I went to the orthodontist's one visit (three months before they were supposed to come off) and she said that they wouldn't be off for another six months, I started to cry. And she did not understand at all why I was crying. So very sad!

lola49 said...

poor cicada

Jenny said...

I didn't eat rice or take bites out of a whole apple for the entire time I had braces. It was just too much effort to get out.

I had spacers in between my teeth before they put the braces in, then I had a huge spacer in the roof of my mouth so that I talked with a mega lisp, and then I had headgear (but I never wore it, I told my orthodontist to go back to the drawing board and my parents were paying him for better than that) and it was all a nightmare and invovlved lots and lots of crying. But the end result was quite lovely I think.

Wait until you get rubber bands and one breaks or slips off and gives you a welt on your lip. That'll be awesome.
Good luck.

daltongirl said...

Crooked teeth lead to reluctance to smile.
Reluctance to smile leads to people thinking you are rude/stuck up/surly.
People thinking you are surly leads to you acting surly.
Acting surly leads to stomachache.
Stomachache leads to ulcers.
Ulcers bleed all over your insides, and, if left untreated, death.

ipso facto, braces = life

Nemesis said...

I had braces when I was a junior and senior in HIGH SCHOOL. Talk about tragic. And yes, hated it.

And when they come off, tell the orthodontist to give you a permanent retainer on both the top AND bottom. I cannot stress the importance of this enough. Threaten to kill him if he refuses.

stupidramblings said...

I had 'em. Sometimes I caught a little FM radio in my mouth...

Cicada said...

Yeah, I have the permanent retainer in the bottom and I REALLY wish that I had it in the top. Words of wisdom: If you have a non-permanent retainer on top, WEAR IT. Wear it just like they say you should. Or else you'll start to wonder if you have to do the braces thing again in your adulthood. And that won't be fun.

Th. said...

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I'm thinking about it right now....

Limon said...

I never had braces, and now I wish that I had. My teeth aren't bad, but they could be better, and what adult, unmarried male could feel comfortable looking and talking like a teenager for six months? I guess I could squeeze it in between my semi-yearly dates.

Point is, be glad that you will someday not need to think the above.

stupidramblings said...

Other deadly things:

Snakes, alligators and The Vice President...

Th. said...

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Yeah....

Spacers are the worst.

lola49 said...

ipso facto,....... what does that even mean ohhhh white white

"i'm white ya know i'm white wit... e" points to anyone but my mom who knows what that's from