Holidays

Here I am, post holiday and it was quite uneventful.

My teeth at still sensitive, I don't mean that hot and cold food hurts them, I mean that any pressure on them is sore.  Not so much that it stops me from doing anything and not so much that it means I have to take pain killers.  Just that I still cannot bite anything, which does get a bit frustrating, especially when sat in Burger King eating my chicken burger with a knife and fork!

I was slightly worried about going away so soon after the braces had been fitted, but I shouldn't have been at all.  The worst of the pain and discomfort is most defiantly behind me (until the lower brackets are fitted anyway).  I was concerned that when I fell over skiing it would cause problems, but no, not in the slightest.  I managed not to bang them and everything is still intact.

When I had the choice of elastics on the original fitting I chose transparent, later the dentist said white would have been better, but honestly in my opinion, I made the right choice.  So far, following  goulash, gluwine, red wine and blackcurrant jam, the brace is still looking OK.  Not perfectly white, but OK.  I have never had the whitest teeth anyway, so it seems to blend reasonably well.

I was bothered about having my photo taken, but looking at anything that was taken from over 3 foot (about a meter) away, you can't tell there is anything on my teeth.

I was also quite happy to meet a Turkish lady, possibly mid 40's who also had braces top and bottom.  I was very impressed that she has had hers 4 months and she was tucking into a burger very confidently.  This has given me fresh hope that one day I will be able to bit again!

Of course people noticed I had the brace, it isn't bang in your face, but it isn't invisible either.  One remark was that a lady thought it was cute I cut my toast into soldiers to go with my egg, until I pointed out that I only did it because I couldn't bite!  No one said anything bad about the braces, mainly people were just surprised that an adult had them, which surprised me.

Throughout the whole week the only thing that I couldn't do was eat the spun sugar decoration on top of one of the deserts, and realistically, this was probably a good thing considering the calories that I had already put away that evening!