look ma, no more braces!

After one and a half year of having alambres in my mouth, I'm free. Or so I thought. My dentist said I'll be wearing retainers for another year but heck, that's infinitely better than those painful square stuff stringed with wires which scraped my mouth.

Or so I thought again.

I had my retainers fitted today and it feels so weird. It's like having a ngala-ngala within my ngala-ngala, at feeling ko malululunon ko sha anytime. Death by choking on retainers, ang jologs.

I have to take it off everytime I eat which makes me feel like a lola removing a pustiso. Sana lang hindi ko sha maibalot sa tissue sabay maitapon—a classic retainer story.

These are the trade-offs to having straight teeth with no gaps. Lucky are those born with good teeth like L, walang hassle. Pero worth it naman. The first time I saw my brace-less teeth, I've smiled at myself so long in the mirror. Kinikilig ako, hihihi.

Wala na kong braces, diretso na yung ngipin ko. Hindi na mukhang reflector yung bibig ko sa pichurs.. Wheee. *kilig*

Here are some braces myths I've learned over the years:

1. You will dramatically lose weight when you get braces.

I've actually gained weight! You'll have a hard time eating during the first few weeks or months, but that's it.

I had to get some drinks to put me to sleep when I got my brackets 'cause they hurt so much. It worked. I had a few bottles again when my braces were completed.

The hardest part was I had soup as pulutan to my light beer because I can't take in sisig, cheese sticks or any of those oily and deadly but super sarap food 'cause chewing is agony.

Pero magugutom ka rin, at titiisin mo rin yang sakit ng pag-nguya hanggang masanay ka. So hindi ka rin papayat.

2. Kissing is a serious problem.

Ask my baby, hehe. I think he will actually miss the cold steel. Well, it might be tough if both of you are wearing braces, baka sumabit. But by and large, braces or no braces, kissing is wonderful when you love the person you're lip-locking with.

3. You will have a permanent speech defect.

I used to have a P and F syndrome and it's so fucking embarrasing. I used to say: "Mama, fara sa tabi"; "Nood tayo ng Haffy Feet!"; "Ayoko nga ng breast fart ng chicken!" which makes people hysterical.

Eh shorry shila, shumashabit ung breyshes ko no.

You MIGHT have these but once you get used to it, you will sound pretty much normal. The problem now is my retainers are causing far more serious speech problems. I shound like talking with my mouth full. Ang panget.

And it feels so unhygenic. Nai-imagine ko na yung germs na napa-party sa gilagid ko. I feel like throwing up whenever I put the upper part, and they hurt a lot! Ew. Hassle talaga to, kaso ayoko namang pabayaan 'cause I had a hard-headed officemate who didn't wear her retainers and she had to have braces AGAIN. No way.

So there, I love my new smile, parang gusto kong ngitian, halikan at i-hug lahat ng tao, hehe. Spread the love. Mwah!