Learning to smile

So I think braces are changing my habits for the better. A quick example is that I used to chew my shirts when I was deep in thought. Which isn't very often, but it comes up occasionally when I work. If you chew your shirt with braces you get hooked and the shirt pulls on your teeth. Hard. You stop rather quickly. I haven't done it in days.

They say 21 days forms a habit... I have at least 20 months to break that one...

So my smirk is gone too. If you know me I don't really smile. I smirk. It's not something I like, but if you say to me smile. I don't really know what to do. I mean do I show teeth? WTF? When the orthdontist told me to smile so she could measure how much teeth I show when I smile I gave her the fake one. I mean I wasn't going to get a 0. a ZEERO... no. So I smiled. She measured and called it off with other lovely measurments such as my eclusal plane angle (which for the record is almost 0. Zero is good in that case... everything is relative...

So now I have bracets on each upper tooth and wire connecting them. I can't smirk. I have a boolean smile now. On or off. So I can choose. Either you get the full mouth, braces and all, or nothing. Nada. I can't just move the corners. Why you ask? because I'll tell you: IT FUCKING HURTS.

So when I smile it's the whole enchalada (and If I've had Mexican food and have not yet had a chance to brush, that is exactly what you'll see the whole enchilada. Gross, but true.)

So I will smile... see?



I know. They are red white and blue. I did that because the kids chose the colors that time. They went for a president's day theme.

I know they are not symmetric. You can either alternate the colors or make them symmetric... not both.

say cheese...