Crooked Teeth.

I have an aversion to crooked teeth. I'm sorry to say this, as I know there are people around with crooked teeth, but yeah, it bothers me.

(total side note. I use spell check and the only words that usually come up are my made-up words or words that need capitalization and I don't. But this time, "aversion" came up. Wow. I've been spelling it wrong for, well, just about ever. I spelled it "adversion". Heh. What do you know? Totally wrong. Quincy has pointed out other words I constantly misspelled since it was on a message board and no spellcheck. Quincy - help me out here. guarantee and tomato, right? Damn it. Spell check just told me I did guarantee wrong again. I really want that 2nd a to be an e.)

I'm talking ~really~ crooked teeth though. Like an orthodontist's wet dream type.

You couldn't of guessed my amazement when I found out ~I~ was going to get braces due to an overbite. Woohoo~ Braces. I was in 9th grade.

I went in for the braces-on appointment and left in tears. I didn't get the cool braces. I got the super dooper Giant-All-The-Way-Around-Your-Teeth braces. Like the ones on your molars - I get all around. My parents made the decision to go this way because they were faster due to what I needed to get done. I needed to have 2 teeth removed on top and then they pulled back the front of my mouth to fix the overbite. With "normal" braces, it would have taken another year. Or maybe I'm just remembering wrong and the regular braces wouldn't of worked. Regardless, they were huge and ugly and I hated them. HATED them. HATED THEM.

It was all still a normal experience. I ended up with the rubber bands later and got to use cool colors. But still, I was a severe metal mouth. No one made fun of me, thank god, but still.

I got them off in 10th grade and got a retainer. Okay, that's cool - just the wire, which I liked. I also got that bottom wire thing - the permanent wire attached to the inside. Things went as planned and my overbite was corrected and my teeth were straighter.

I don't know how long that bottom piece was supposed to stay in. I knew it was almost permanent, finally taking it out years down the line, but mine broke early. They removed it, but I never went in to get it replaced. And now my bottom teeth are crooked.

The thing I don't like about other people? I have. Serves me right, doesn't it?

I'm thinking of getting adult braces. But damn, I also remember the pain they caused. As a kid it's one thing. As a functioning adult with a full time job and three (hopefully. I still take nothing for granted) kids, I don't think I'd deal will with mouth pain. (I'm specifically not fixing that last sentence because Deb pointed it out.)