A New Diet Tool

I haven’t really written much about my braces because there hasn’t been much to tell. I haven’t had much issue with them after the initial getting acquainted stage. They hurt like hell for about a week and certain foods were off limits, but now I pretty much eat whatever. I don’t chew gum or eat a lot of sticky candy, but other than that, not much has changed.

Since I got them on at the end of June, I haven’t once had to have them tightened. This has annoyed Jake because he recalls excruciating visits to the orthodontist when he was a kid getting his braces tightened and adjusted or whatever they did to him. Not so much for me. Either the science of orthodontics has improved vastly in the last twenty years or I just have a different problem than he did. Every time I have gone in, the orthodontist simply looks at them, tells me he is happy with the progress (which in his defense, I can also see so I know he’s not blowing smoke) and just wants to wait a bit longer for more to happen.

Well, yesterday I guess enough stuff had happened. I got the spacers on my bottom teeth and will be getting the bottom braces next week. I had forgotten how awful those damn spacers are. They didn’t even bother me much yesterday after they were inserted in the afternoon. Not until last night when I took my first bite of dinner. I about jumped out of my skin, partly because the pain was bad, but mostly because it surprised me. For a moment I had absolutely no idea why all of a sudden my mouth felt like I’d been punched. And now the pain won’t stop. I took three advil before bed and it didn’t even put a dent in it. I tried to eat some cereal for breakfast this morning and it just hurt too badly to get very far. I guess I’m eating yogurt and jello until after the braces go on.

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