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TEETH!!
Yes, I'm on braces now! Can't describe how happy, excited and pained I'm feeling all together since last last Sunday.
Went to extracted 2 teeth (one on my top right and one on my bottom left) last last Sunday and had my braces (only the front 8 teeth of both my top and bottom teeth, the back maybe in the next few months) installed last Saturday. Just counted I had 24 teeth now with 2 wisdom teeth on the top row but no wisdom teeth on the bottom. They're blocked and hopefully will not grow out till I die. So I googled and they say on average an adult will have 32 permanent teeth but even with the 2 I've extracted I only had 26 and plus 2 bottom wisdom teeth that's not in sight 28. I'm lacking of 4 more teeth? Hmmmm. Anybody have teeth as little as I had?
Anyway, not gonna show you all pic because personally I feel it's very crooked and unglam and that's a part of me I wanna hide. Maybe when I can take better pic then I'll show some. My sis chose blue and turquoise rubber bands for me on alternate teeth. Not sure what's the rubber thingy called but I call it the rubberband. Still not getting used to it but the pain is becoming more tolerable with every passing day.
Extracting of teeth is not that pain as I first expected but I was shivering from the air con or from the fear, I don't know which. The nurse had to secure my face with both her hands when the dentist extract my teeth VIOLENTLY. With the anesthetic, I didn't felt any pain but I could feel the the root of the tooth leaving my gums. It's a very odd feeling and er I don't like it! The wound is still not fully recovered and I can still see a little dried up blood till now. Ate porridge for the first 2 days and then I can eat normal food.
For the installation of braces, I closed my eyes throughout the whole process and this is what I recalled. Dentist first cleaned my teeth and called me to rinse my mouth after that and I spitted out some blue stuff that tasted salty. Not sure what was that. Then he 'stick' the metals on my teeth using glue as what meichyi told me since she went in with me to accompany me. It's painless but I can feel the metal sticking on to my teeth (it's the same type of feeling when the tooth leave my gums). Next, I get to choose the color(s) I want and he will use them to secure the metal wire that connect all my teeth to move them to the ideal position. Still painless up to now until that one tooth that is super crooked and very oddly positioned, dentist was trying to 'tie' the rubberband to it but he used so much force that I 'ARGH' out loud with all the stuff (I don't know what) in my mouth and immediately backed off from him and sinked deeper into the dental chair or whatever that's called. My body turned stiff and I'm trembling. He called me not to move and continued to apply force on my poor tooth, but it's seriously hurts so much that I teared automatically and shocked the nurse standing beside. Then I very paiseh and said' 我要哭了'when tears already flowing out like mad, so my sis and the nurse have to wipe them away for me and one drop even flowed into my opening mouth. wth. My sis keep saying '不痛不痛' and '要好了' till the dentist asked her '你怎么知道不痛?' Then my sis answered '因为痛的是他不是我.' See my sis very act smart hor? I literally rolled eyes at her but actually I was rolling eyes at the celling because I was lying down mah! HAHAHAHA. So after the very dramatic pain, every thing's done and I'm good to go. Next appointment is 6 weeks later, hope no more pain ok!!
First hour after installing the braces, felt no pain at all just uncomfortable with all the metal rubbing my inner lips and have a little trouble with how to speak without looking weird. Dentist advise me to put some wax on some of the metals so I won't have ulcers but the process of pressing in the wax is another round of pain! No choice but to do it to protect myself from ulcer attack.
Then after 2 hours, hell began. I thought I'm not going to suffer any pain so I bought KFC cheese fries and when I tried to have my first bite. It's hurt so badly that I almost screamed out. I don't know why it hurts so bad so I took out my pocket mirror and analyse what causes the pain. I think it might be because my top row of teeth is too out front and my bottom too inside, you know what I mean? So ya, when I tried to bite using my front teeth the top have to move backwards or the bottom have to move outwards to meet and bite but with braces installed, my jaw can't even move without feeling the pain. Well, it's not like I didn't try to use my back teeth, but the same thing happened, when the top teeth tried to bite down, it's hit the bottom and causes pain. Is the touch also can not touch type of pain.
So literally I can't eat anything that require chewing, including PORRIDGE. wtf? I tried one mouthful but only managed to swallow all the water from the porridge and left with rice in my mouth. Then, I told my mum I can't eat the porridge and showed her the remaining of the porridge in my mouth and she said whoa, 酱严重 meh.=.= 是的妈, 就是酱严重. So I've been drinking or eating mushroom soup, milk, hot chocolate, milo, mashed potato, hor fun soup for the past 3 days through closed jaw. For hor fun I have to use a metal spoon to 'chop' them into small small pieces so I can just swallow them down with the soup. Fluid food only, like a baby. I thought extracting of teeth is the most painful part of the process but I'm totally wrong, the pain of braces is 1000x worst than having blood flowing out from the extracted tooth wound.
On the first night, I didn't sleep well at all. Woke up at 3am and 7am, don't know why. I can't open my mouth wide or talk loudly. My jaws refused to open and I can only squeeze words out of my mouth with my jaws closed. Plus with the little food I consume, I really felt tired easily and suddenly had lots of cravings. Hokkien mee, pasta, koi, mcd, chocolates, ramen, curry rice .... OMG, I'm beginning to feel the emptiness in my stomach again. The tugging and pulling of the braces really makes my teeth felt very tight and pressurized till I can't even brush my teeth. When the toothbrush touches my teeth and even before I started brushing them, the pain is striking and I can't continue. Plus it's only the front teeth I'm talking about, I can't open my jaw big enough to brush my back teeth so in the end I just rinse them. LOL. Now I fully understand 爱美是要付出代价的. This dai jia is seriously fucking pain. Never in my life I've felt this degree of pain. It's like major menses cramp but it's happening in your mouth and the only period you won't feel the pain is when you're in a deep sleep. So it will bother you every minute, every second whenever you're breathing.
On the second night, I didn't sleep well again because I dreamt of something bad again. A woman with short hair was kneeling beside me on my bed and she was covering my mouth and suffocating me with her hands and I was paralyzed. I tried to scream but she's strong. I can't see her face as she had all the hair covering parts of her face plus it's dark and I'm panicking and struggling so I couldn't see properly. It's not the first time I dreamt of something was paralyzing me but it's the first time I managed to open my eyes and see what's pressing me down. Then suddenly I got freed and woke up, I was so tired that I just continue to close my eyes and try to fall back to sleep. But I can't and the image keep resurfacing so in the end I carried all my stuff and went to meichyi's room. When I opened the door, instead of seeing her sleeping on her bed, she was standing up in her dark room and I got taken aback that I forgot what's my reaction was. LOL. She told me she just finished watching her hk drama and was about to sleep now but she need to go to the toilet first. So I told her about my nightmare and we sleep together. I'm so lucky to have her as a sister. Phew.
The pain become less torturous yesterday and I can open my jaws le! You don't know how happy I felt and it's like all the pain I suffered finally is going away. I still can't bite anything but at least there's no pain if I don't touch them. So I went to meet up with xianwen for a short chat after she finished her work, at the mcd beside her place and we update each other a little. She surprised me by giving me a Celine dustcap! Posted the pic on fb and IG so I won't be posting it here again. She's really super good to me till I don't know if I deserve it or not!! *cries! Laughed and talked with her so much till my jaws hurts again. LOL. Btw, they say your face will slim down when you had braces because it's supposed to pull all your teeth in and correct your jawline, but now my cheeks are so chubby (not say it's not chubby before but it's chubbier now) because they're kinda swollen. I looked so laughable on the first day. LOL.
Anyway, I've heard a lot of stuff on braces from xianwen and xiaoyuan (both of them still having their braces now. so glad I'm not alone) but when I experienced it first-handed, it still shocked me. xianwen didn't suffer much pain even for her first few days but I somehow suffered as much as xiaoyuan did, though from what I heard, mine was a little worst than her. My lips are constantly dry and I can't use my tongue to lick them as my jaw won't let them during the first 2 days. So had to use lip balm and they are very 'oily'.
Ever since I had my braces on, meichyi keep calling me to show her my teeth because she said it fascinating to see them and I look weird and so she can laugh at me. =.= Lucky I get to stay at home for another week before I go to work next Monday. Finally found a job position I truly think I will enjoy doing and I'm really happy. Didn't tweet recently about the job offer or the pain of braces because I thought of being low profile first for the job and the pain, I think the more I talk about it the harsher the pain will be. So now after the job offer had been confirmed and the pain is fading now, I'm blogging it with happiness!!
Okay, didn't intend to blog such a long blog but somehow when I'm typing it out it became such a detailed post. Hope it will help whoever that's going to have their braces done on what to expect, and good luck with the pain if you suffer any! LOL. Ohya, you can pay by installment but will have to pay a certain amount as deposit first. So that's all, byeeee!
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