Take out your fucking retainer, put it in your purse

[sovay]

I've had to get a year's worth of braces because the alternative was my teeth grinding into one another at angles that were causing them to splinter and would necessitate things like crowns and lots of composite if not realigned. The effects of this on my daily life are substantially nastier than I was led to believe and I don't know what the adjustment period is going to be like. Things inside my head are kind of terrible right now.

Hana Vojáčková's Milk & Sea. I think I love best the Icelandic mermaid with her trout-silver tail and the rill of turf-breaking rock that looks like a stream, but there is something about the German mermaid waiting for her bus, or maybe just watching the nighttime, commercial sea, that is a story all in one frame. I shouldn't write it before I write something with trees. Right now I am having trouble believing I will ever write anything, full stop.

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[sovay]

Was there a particular reason for the Invisalign? (Other than that it's the usual thing for adults, because they usually don't want to be bracefaces.)

I was told it would be faster and less of an interference in my day-to-day life. (I stressed that the cosmetic aspects were not important to me: I didn't want to plunge back into the joy of orthodontics if it wasn't medically necessary and I didn't care about wearing a mouthful of wires if it was.) The first may still be true; we'll see how it goes. Day-to-day, though, it looks like it's going to be pretty awful.

[chomiji]

It sounds really unpleasant. I would not automatically assume that the tea stains are either inevitable or a big deal, though. Drink your tea. There's a tendency for specialists to consider patients in terms of only the body part or system that they are treating. If she's a cardiologist, you're a heart, and if he's an orthodontist. you're a mouthful of teeth. Never mind what the other body systems might need ... .

I'm trying to recall whether they offered Invisalign as an option for my daughter's second go-round in braces, when she was already in college, and it just won't come to me.