By: Piper Yu, 7NPA
Whether you're still in school or college or a graduate, braces have made their mark in the world as an extremely common and a very painful extra accessory that’s pretty much stuck in your mouth but for an excellent outcome. If you have braces, you’ll definitely relate to a few of the things down below!
When you have nightmares about getting your braces the night before your appointment (or earlier).
That phase everyone goes through - especially if it’s your first appointment.
When you first get braces, your friends just keep making you show them to the point that it gets seriously annoying because multiple people ask you multiple times to open your mouth just so they can see your braces.
Please. They’re just braces, a pain but no big deal. Stop making me open my mouth just to show you my braces. It’s really creepy…
When your friend whose teeth don’t require braces says they want them.
Trust me. You absolutely do not want braces.
Choosing colours for your braces was so HARD!
That feeling when your orthodontist presents you with like 20 different colors, and you have no idea which one to choose.
When you try using the wax they give you.
You decide that it’s ultimately time to use the wax because the metal from your braces is too hard to bear, but then it doesn’t stay on for more than a minute.
If you have elastics, you never want to yawn or laugh too loudly.
When you just can’t open your mouth too widely as the elastics might snap - I totally understand.
The time you tried to avoid taking off your elastics while eating.
Those times.
The time you wanted to drag the person who said, “You don’t need braces! Your teeth are already straight.” to your mom or dad to convince them you didn’t need braces.
You’re not alone. I totally understand your pain when that happens.
The time you couldn’t eat candy during Halloween.
When you decide to eat candy on Halloween, and it was either really crunchy and made your teeth ache for eternity, or was really sticky and made you spend ages trying to get it out of your braces.
When you have to miss out on ice cream cake because your braces just hurt way too much.
Sad, sad.
Trying to get the particles of food out of your braces.
Furiously trying to get food out of those braces 12/7
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