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Health

It’s been awhile since I updated my braces saga and I have to admit it almost all came to a crashing end this weekend. Two weeks ago I had my bottom braces put on. You can see from the picture how jacked up my bottom teeth look in the front–especially now that the metal is [...]

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Earlier today I visited the doctor about some back pain. He suggested that I start taking Aleve twice a day. I’ve never used it before, so I headed to Kroger to pick up a box. When I looked at the side of the box for the instructions I had to do a double–no triple!-take! Was [...]

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When I last checked in for my continuing saga of getting braces at 37, I was learning how to survive the palate expander. I was starting to eat a little more normally and wasn’t in much pain. Of course, as soon as I got used to all of that, my top braces went on. And [...]

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This is my second post in my series about getting braces. If I thought that Spacers were difficult, they were a walk in the park compared to the Palate Expander! After two weeks of spacers (the second week thicker than the first), a mold was made of my mouth to make the Palate Expander. (Technically [...]

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Mom Gets Braces: Spacers (1)

by on January 22, 2013

I write about a lot of personal topics on this blog, but for some reason this seems more personal than most. It’s embarrassing and yet pretty normal for a lot of people my age. All my life I have hated my teeth. No one ever understands it because they say I have a “big, beautiful” [...]

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