so sorry - but I will forever be grateful that my mother just rolled her eyes at the dentist who suggested that I start with braces for my overbite.
My best friend in elementary school did the whole route - braces and headgear and then retainer for years and years and years. I remember in grade 5 and 6 when she wore the headgear - she'd come over and we'd babble on like the 10 year old girls we were...afterward my mother would ask me, with great seriousness, "can you understand anything she says?"
The closest I've come is a partial plate that I wore for nearly a year, when I had a tooth pulled and was waiting to complete the implant - you have to re-learn how to talk and pronounce words with this giant plastic THING in your mouth. I would literally practice talking and singing along to songs in the car on the way to work, so that people could understand me when I got there....
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so sorry - but I will forever be grateful that my mother just rolled her eyes at the dentist who suggested that I start with braces for my overbite.
My best friend in elementary school did the whole route - braces and headgear and then retainer for years and years and years. I remember in grade 5 and 6 when she wore the headgear - she'd come over and we'd babble on like the 10 year old girls we were...afterward my mother would ask me, with great seriousness, "can you understand anything she says?"
The closest I've come is a partial plate that I wore for nearly a year, when I had a tooth pulled and was waiting to complete the implant - you have to re-learn how to talk and pronounce words with this giant plastic THING in your mouth. I would literally practice talking and singing along to songs in the car on the way to work, so that people could understand me when I got there....