brace-d

Today marks my "two-weeksary" of my braces. I can say these braces eewiefreeeakinghuuuuuuurts!!!! Huhuhu. But I'm getting used to it. Hay. I shoud get used to it. I MUST GET USED TO IT (repeat to self 100 times). I have no choice but to get used it...or else, I'll end up being a stick with metal braces on her teeth. Tss...

Why did I do this to myself in the first place?! Haha! Oops I wasn't the one who put this thing on my teeth. Oooohlala. I coin the word "tiis ganda". Hmm...But I have a good teeth. Ang arte arte ko lang kasi! Nyahaha! (add the fact that I'm currently having an 'issue' in my life and I don't want to cut my hair, hence, ngipin ang napagtripan). Haaaay. The things I do to...oh nevermind, this post is about my teeth and braces.

So there, to give you a proof that I have a "good" teeth and I don't really need braces, below is a vain picture of myself. Sorry namaaan. Haha! O diba? Won't you agree that I have a perfectly good upper teeth. But you see (well you can't see pala), my lower teeth are crooked. And so, I need braces... Pano na ang pangarap ko maging model or flight attendant pag panget ngipin ko? Models have perfectly good upper AND lower teeth, not just good upper teeth. LOL.

Anyway, it's great to have a dentist-friend. I had my braces at a "super friendly" price. Woot! And I have LOTS of dentist-friends! How cool is that? I won't have any problems in the future, I already have a family dentist. Yehey!

Meet my dentist Dra. Annie Padua.

Shocks. I'm not used to calling her doctora. It sounds pretty cool to my ears. What's funny is that I just call her "bru" (short for bruha) while people call her doctora. Isn't she pretty? She's studying orthodontics and I'm her first patient slash guinea pig. Haha! She's also a board topnotcher. I'm so proud and happy for her! Actually, I'm so proud and happy for all my blockmates who are now dentists. Makes me think if I haven't shifted to Statistics, I could have been one of them too. Dra. Patricia... Hmm, pwede!

This is my first picture after I got my braces. I look so awkwaaaaard and fugly. Yikes! Kasi naman walang tulog plus ilang days na umiiyak plus ang sakit sakit sakit sakiiiiit talaga. For the sake of "proper documentation", I let my dentist took this fugly picture of me. Haha! Yuuuuuuuuck.

Oh well. The procedure took more than 4 hours. I lost track of time and I almost feel asleep! Mygulay! Imagine yourself gaping that long. My cheeks, lips and mouth already got numb. It helped that my dentist is a good friend of mine. Hindi awkward yung matagal ka nakanganga. Hehe! Kakaaliw lang din na ang dami niyang assistants. Five dentists are looking at me (yun ang awkward haha) - may taga lagay

ng brackets, may taga abot siya ng materials, may isang may notebook taking down notes, may taga hawak ng pangsisip ng laway. Experiment na experiment talaga.

Doctora 1: Ang swerte mo Annie di masyadong malaway yung pasyente mo (referring to me)
Annie: Haha! oonga bru, buti di ka malaway (talking to me)

Doctora 1: Kung ako yan, mahihirapan yung maglalagay sakin ng braces. Sobrang malaway ako eh. Kaya di ako makakiss ng maayos eh

Annie: haha ayaw mo nun,well lubricated!

Bwahahaha! I can't help laughing! So mas okay ba kung malaway or not? Hahaha!

So, how does it feel to have braces? As I've said, it freaking hurts! On the day I got my braces, I can't even eat noodles! Ganon siya kasakit! I remember eating noodles for dinner and I can't chew it properly I almost got choked! Jusme. Kala ko katapusan ko na. I imagine myself dying because I got choked...with noodles! Very pathetic. Hahaha!

During the first two days, the only food that I can eat is soup - mushroom shoup, crab and corn soup, pumpkin soup, soup-as. Haha! Lahat na ata ng soup nakain ko na. I feel sad not being able to eat the food I want. I'm grumpy for a week because I'm always hungry. But then I realized that I should practice eating solid foods (one year ako nakabraces 'di pwedeng puro soup kakainin ko ng isang taon!). So I started eating pasta, chicken, pizza, sisig, chicharon (joke! wala pang chicharon,di ko pa kaya haha!) I have to allot one hour for my eating time. Ang bagal ko kasi ngumuya.

I'm now more conscious of my teeth. Before I only brush once a day, with braces, I brush twice a day na. Hurray! Joke lang. Haha seriously, I now brush everytime I eat, kahit na brownies lang kinain ko. You see, half of the food that goes to my mouth is stuck at those metals and it doesn't feel good. I feel like a chimpmunk. Laging may takeout na food. Haha! I also can't speak straight. Ang arte ko na magsalita. I thought before na nagiinarte lang magsalita yung mga may braces. But when I firsthand experienced it, I feel for them. I can't say "sixty six" and "Philippines" properly. So, pardon me if I'm more talkative these days (madaldal na before, sobrang mas madaldal pa ngayon haha!). I'm practising how to speak with these braces. I'm glad I still don't have mouth blisters. They say when you have braces, you are prone to having one.

Lookie, after two weeks of having this foreign object inside my mouth, here I am getting used to it. Sabi nila mukhang sosyal daw ako magsmile ngayon. Still, if given a choice, I'd prefer teeth without braces - mas natural. But then, ginusto ko rin naman to. Haha! Touch move!