Second day.
Not. So. Good.
The pressure is increasing. Quite painful sometimes. But I think I can still manage. I ate oatmeal for breakfast. Now it's noon and I haven't decide what to eat for lunch. I have 2 choices - eat oatmeal again or eat black forest cake (Mary's birthday cake leftover). I don't really want to re-eat my breakfast and I'm trying to eat healthier. Or I can make bubur bilis. Which would involve some cooking. hmmmp. I think I'm not hungry yet. I'll decide later.
I wanted to take pics of my new braces but my digi-cam is still with Mel. A8 tried using his hp but it looks blurry. Ok la, it can wait. Saaabaaar...
Sunday, 28 December 2008
Saturday, 27 December 2008
And the journey begins...
Day one with top braces. Yesss, I finally did it! After years of contemplating it. After years of imagining it. I guess the time has arrived.
My teeth problem - jongang! An my lower teeth is overcrowded. I have 32 of them, big and strong, but my jaw is just too small. It's genetic because my eldest sis have the same teeth and had hers done years ago (I guess we didn't win the genetic lottery here).
I wish I had mine corrected years early. Everyone said my teeth not so bad. Or I looked fine just the way I am. Some say I'll lose my pemanis, which is my megawatt smile. And I, myself, was in denial.
The turning point came after my wedding photos were processed. Frontal view - I look sooo cantik. Side view - Aaargh!!! And of all the gorgoeus photos, my photographer went and choose this one photo to be enlarged - the one with the side view of my teeth. Well my hub says, I looked ok, told me to stop obssessing on my teeth. Well darling, I looked drop dead gorgeous on most of the pics, so I don't want to settle on looking okaaay. Besides I'm vain. Yes dear, the woman that you married (for 7 months now) is totally vain.
So, after those incidents I become more obssessive. Watching other people's teeth became my past time. I can notice even a slight crook in someone else's teeth. I would compare the degree of kejongangan between theirs and mine (want to make myself feel better, I suppose). Those with really nice teeth became the object of my envy...Hahaha, thats how bad I was.
And finally, hub couldn't take it anymore.
"Bikin saja la bah, 2 tahun ja tuuu."
That was all I needed, someone to tell me go for it! So I started to save money for the downpayment, RM2500. Balance will be paid in installments.
I got 4 extractions - 1st biscupids on all sides. That was the worst part. I felt soo sick of taking out 4 perfectly healthy and strong teeth, but got no choice. It wasn't painful at all. But the crunch of the tooth when the dentist pull it out was not fun at all. And all those bleeding and numbness of lips - sooo uncomfortable.
Anyway that was 2 weeks ago. Today I got my top braces. It feel so weird having foreign thing between your lips and teeth. I can start to feel the pressure but no great pain -yet.
My teeth problem - jongang! An my lower teeth is overcrowded. I have 32 of them, big and strong, but my jaw is just too small. It's genetic because my eldest sis have the same teeth and had hers done years ago (I guess we didn't win the genetic lottery here).
I wish I had mine corrected years early. Everyone said my teeth not so bad. Or I looked fine just the way I am. Some say I'll lose my pemanis, which is my megawatt smile. And I, myself, was in denial.
The turning point came after my wedding photos were processed. Frontal view - I look sooo cantik. Side view - Aaargh!!! And of all the gorgoeus photos, my photographer went and choose this one photo to be enlarged - the one with the side view of my teeth. Well my hub says, I looked ok, told me to stop obssessing on my teeth. Well darling, I looked drop dead gorgeous on most of the pics, so I don't want to settle on looking okaaay. Besides I'm vain. Yes dear, the woman that you married (for 7 months now) is totally vain.
So, after those incidents I become more obssessive. Watching other people's teeth became my past time. I can notice even a slight crook in someone else's teeth. I would compare the degree of kejongangan between theirs and mine (want to make myself feel better, I suppose). Those with really nice teeth became the object of my envy...Hahaha, thats how bad I was.
And finally, hub couldn't take it anymore.
"Bikin saja la bah, 2 tahun ja tuuu."
That was all I needed, someone to tell me go for it! So I started to save money for the downpayment, RM2500. Balance will be paid in installments.
I got 4 extractions - 1st biscupids on all sides. That was the worst part. I felt soo sick of taking out 4 perfectly healthy and strong teeth, but got no choice. It wasn't painful at all. But the crunch of the tooth when the dentist pull it out was not fun at all. And all those bleeding and numbness of lips - sooo uncomfortable.
Anyway that was 2 weeks ago. Today I got my top braces. It feel so weird having foreign thing between your lips and teeth. I can start to feel the pressure but no great pain -yet.
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