None of them seem to help. My mouth is so sore and nothing but ice seems to help. I left work early for a dentist appointment. Just a simple cleaning, of which I don’t mind. I was afraid of the dentist when I was little, but now I’m like the best patient. Anyway back to the story; I had laid there for quite a while with everything ok. At the very end the lady was flossing my teeth blah blah fun stuff I know. My six front bottom teeth are all bonded to a permanent retainer that I’ve had for five years now. She was flossing between the last two teeth when the string got caught on the wire (as it usually does). She gave a little tug, but it didn’t let go, so the pulled a little harder, next thing I know *snap crack and pop* (no not the cereal) she broke the damn thing off the back of my teeth. It was only being held on by the farthest two right teeth. The dentist ended up just cutting the wire off, then breaking the rest loose and scraping all the epoxy off my teeth. It didn’t really hurt much at the time, but they hurt like a bitch now. They won’t be able to put a new one in until Tuesday next week. It feels so strange having smooth teeth now. I just hope they don’t shift or move this week while I’m waiting on my new one.
I was bad, and never wore my upper removable retainer, thats why I wanted a bonded one for the bottom. My upper teeth haven’t shifted too much over the past five years, so its not a big deal, but the bottom ones are perfect and I don’t want them to go all over the place. Looks like I’ll be eating pudding for a week since I’m all paranoid.
So thats my story and I’m sticking to it!
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Location: Lilburn GA, United States