It is official. I had a suspicion when she gave me the biggest gap ever between my two front teeth as a child - which continued into my teenage years and only really closed up in college. My suspicions grew when she dislocated my knees repeatedly in high school, and made me blind as a bat. It was re-awakened when she had my uterus try to kill me, then when she brutally forced me to have my wisdom teeth removed and then topped off her rudeness by gracing me with a dry socket {although, I will admit that the dry socket was probably more my fault than Mother Nature's}... All these wonderful things have merely been building blocks for my latest assumption, no, confirmation that I am, in fact, on good old Mother Nature's crap list.
Why?
Google "Impacted Canines". Yeeeeeah, sounds exciting, doesn't it? :O)
To make a long story painfully short, next week I get to go to an oral surgeon to have holes or "windows" cut in the gums of my upper palette, and if it's not too bloody then he'll attach brackets to those newly exposed teeth {we may have to wait a week if there's too much blood}. A week after the brackets are attached, I'll head to the orthodontist to have brackets attached to my upper teeth, and wires connecting the screw-ball teeth to my back teeth. He's going to use the back teeth to pull the impacted canines away from my front teeth {where they are currently trying to come down on top of and putting mass pressure on the roots - ow!} and get them lined up to be brought down into place. When they are in line, he'll pull my baby canines and bring the adult teeth down.
Next year sometime, he'll put brackets on my lower teeth to straighten them out. Also, at some point he's going to have to shave my teeth down because there's not enough room for them to sit straight. He's hoping for 18 months, but planning on 2 years. All said and done it's going to cost more than adopting a baby {I know!!}, cause a LOT of pain and make me pretty goofy looking for a few months while I'm waiting for the teeth to come down and have monstrous gaps. :O( BUT, in the end the migranes I've been battling for the last month or so and the pain I've dealt with for years will be fixed - AND, as my dear brother Aaryn said - I'll have the best smile money can buy cuz Mother Nature sure wasn't very nice! At least it explains the gap I had growing up...
Gag me.
Next up: Lasik eye surgery!! Ha ha, just kidding, I think I've got enough people cutting and poking and prodding my head for the next few years. :O)
4 comments:
Tiffany! Words can't describe how bad I feel for you! Good luck!!! I hope they keep you on some GOOD pain killers! :) And yes, I do believe Mother Nature has it out for you.
If mother nature really hated you, you wouldn't be so dang good-looking! You are so beautiful in that picture! I think maybe mother nature is just making up for all that attractiveness she gave you :)
That is too funny that you still have baby teeth! I can't believe all of the stuff you have to endure on your teeth! Best of luck with that and hopefully not too painful. But on the upside...I had lasic and you don't feel a thing! So just tell clint you might as well get everything taken care of in one fail swoop. ;-D
Ha! I'm sorry. I'm not laughing at you. I'm laughing with you. I had that exact thing with my canines. I had it fixed during my freshmen and sophomore years. Talk about a kick to the self-confidence. I'm sure you'll look beautiful, but I felt hideous. So, every two weeks they tighten the chains to pull the adult teeth down, and after about 18 months, they found out they pulled both teeth in backwards and had to slowly turn them around. UGH!! Now, 8+ years later, one of my canines decided to commit suicide after that whole ordeal and I now have a metal implant instead. I get my permanent crown in 2 weeks. I hate my teeth!! Sounds like it could be genetic. :) Good luck!!
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