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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[rosefox]

Thank you for being willing to share this much information about it; I've forwarded a link to someone I know who's currently a) eating four to five small meals a day and b) considering Invisalign.

I'm really sorry you got such lousy care from the orthodontist, and that they didn't do anything sensible like ask what your current typical meal schedule is before signing you up. You're hardly the only person who snacks and eats small frequent meals! Many many sympathies.

[sovay]

Thank you for being willing to share this much information about it; I've forwarded a link to someone I know who's currently a) eating four to five small meals a day and b) considering Invisalign.

You're welcome; I hope it's useful to them. It is really a complication I wasn't expecting. I thought I had asked all the reasonable questions. The fact that no one volunteered any more information is leaving me feeling a little burned.

I don't know if I would have been better off pushing for traditional braces; those do restrict the diet and one of the reasons I was recommended Invisalign (see reply to chomiji) was the treatment time, which I was told would be faster for this kind of work than bracket-and-wire. There may have been no good solution to this problem except avoid crippling chronic pain, which I refuse to feel was bad planning on my part. But I really would like to have had a better idea of the probable impact on my daily life before I found myself with twenty composite attachments on my teeth and a daunting problem keeping myself healthily fed.

Many many sympathies.

Thank you. It's a year; I'll have to get through it. It's just going to be a harder year in some ways than I was looking forward to.