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Thirty with Braces

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Anny
, 03-19-2009 at 11:27 PM (483 Views)
I'm taking a swim class and the pool tonight was FREEZING! I got in the water and did my customary "tooth chatter" dance while warming up. Turns out teeth chattering while in new braces is a bad idea! The scraping pain was worse than just bearing the cold with a clenched jaw LOL

Luckily warming up happens quickly

I'm still not chewing like a "normal" person. I've been defaulting to soft bread, pasta and soggy Cinnamon Toast Crunch (I'm the paradigm of health). Although I had a caesar salad before dinner today. Since I'm being a bottom braces wuss I barely chewed any of the lettuce before swallowing. This laziness paid off because for the first time in about four months I didn't have to pick lettuce out of my top braces after a salad - SCORE!

Of course its all fun and laziness until someone chokes on lettuce and their sibling documents it for YouTube
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  1. Sunny's Avatar
    Love your sense of humour ... you'll find ways to get through all this ... and honestly it does get better and soon you'll be looking back at posts like this and wondering how it really felt back then!

    I mostly chew with my molars ... the few that touch, that way any food that doesn't wash away with the water I drink while eating, is mostly out of sight. I love salads and found them challenging in the early days, but I quickly decided that something as simple as braces was not going to stop me from enjoying eating ... and it never has!

    Teeth banging together is not good ... I still remember shivering during my first trip home to New Zealand during the winter ... not pleasant!
  2. Anny's Avatar
    Yeah, now I'm kicking myself for bothering to grip and chew salad with my front teeth all these months! All I needed to do was shove it as far back in my mouth as possible and let the molars do all the work :P