The braces fully inside my mouth...

Heh heh...
Just one day after the brackets were in, now comes the metal wires and rubber bands!
Initially after hearing from my ACCA friends that can get to choose colour, I was like so excited... thinking what colour should I put? That day when the dentist just put in the silver brackets, I was like so disappointed... but I get to choose the colour of the rubber bands... weee~ something like ku3 zhong1 zuo4 le. :-D

So many but I decided on purple... because I thought that it will be easy to match my clothes.
The braces felt very awful now... having abrasions and ulcers on my inner lower lip and it is so difficult to speak and swallow and chew... sometimes I just lower my head and the saliva came out from the sides... gross...

Now I felt like a different person in terms of looks... ya trying to change to a different "me"

Continuation of my bracing pain...

On 02/03/07, I went back to the dental clinic for more bracing stuff.

On entering the room, the dentist asked me how was my extraction and I replied, "Alright, still can eat vegetarian abalone."
He said,"vegetarian abalone nice rite.."
I remarked, "but cannot eat the real stuff cause too chewy and tough."
He commented that must be my mom cooked too long, canned abalone is cooked for many hours already, but i rebuked that she only heated them up slightly... so still tough, not due to overcooking.
He then said must be the brands then... I replied that it is Moon.
Moon and Skylight are the common brands for abalone then he added about the debate regarding the quality of the abalone is affected by its origin... something like Mexican one is the best.
I asked after bracing still can eat potato chips, and he said can, why not? Just don't take corn chips because those are very hard.

At the start, anesthesia was administered. I remarked, "That bitter medicine again ah?"
The dentist then said your mom never tell you that bitter medicine then good? Good medicines are bitter ma... cannot do without this.
After a while, he blurted asking me don't look but quite some time has elapsed then I just took a peep and...
WAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!
The needle very thick and long... scary sia until I jerked a bit then the dentist said told you don't look, you still look, make yourself panicked only. The bitter medicine don't know how seep down my throat and I really felt like puking then.

Haha, my stomach keep grumbling meanwhile then the dentist asked if I had taken lunch and I answered yes, had sake sushi. He then mumbled filling meh? Or because you ate potato chips?

He proceeded to clean the teeth and put in the brackets, rings around the molars (with cement) and hooks with some brownish glue.
During then, I can only remembered I was drooling constantly because my mouth cannot be controlled due to it being very numb.

Towards the end, I tried closing and opening my mouth. Dentist asked how was it? Feeling ultra weird and he laughed.
Before I left the room, another 2 teeth were extracted, and the same thing again - gauze swabs and painkillers... this time plus 2 special toothbrushes and an ulcer cream.


Keep in anticipation for my next post with picts and the bracing experience part 3. Now too pain to continue writing even though the event is on today. :p