Drama of the Teeth

This is the pretty picture of my two new front teeth. My left tooth is the one I knocked out when I was about 15. I tried to find a picture of my teeth with it all dark ( a great portion of my wedding pictures have it in them), but you have to get you face all close to it, and I don't have photoshop to show you because you have to get close to see it. You can kind of see it in this photo, but remember the whole get close to it factor.Trust me it was getting worse because I would teach the five year old kids in church and one would ask nearly every Sunday "Sister Annie why is your tooth black?" I would say Thanks a lot that was rude because I am self conscious and I knock out my tooth on the trampoline.

Anyway, I bit the bullet to get these crowns because I kept feeling like my teeth were falling out. Now other than the pain of a normal crown. I had to relive sitting on my couch with my tooth have in my mouth; blood caked around my tooth and everywhere watching Arther on PBS(I don't know why I decided to watch TV) while waiting to go to the dentist. In the dentist office I wanted my sister (who originally took me to the dentist), my mom (who always took me home for the dentist after major trauma), and finally I thought I should want Daniel just because isn't that whom I suppose to want???

After the damage had been done, I sat in my car and cried for thirty minutes because I couldn't see to drive home and was in a little bit of shock. I was convinced that my temporaries would fall out on a flight and I would be this hilly billy with nasty teeth (I figured I must be more shallow and vain than I thought). The funniest part was I actually got a compliment on my temporaries.

Now that I have crowns I hate them because they're "perfect" I liked that my front teeth were quite a bit longer than the others, but it didn't look too odd. What really ticks me off though is that they lighten my crowns a lot and you can notice in pictures (like the first one), so they don't match my teeth. The dentist said that was okay because now I had a base to start whitening. I was mad because I didn't want to spend money on crowns and now I am OCD enough to be forced to pay money to whiten my teeth to make my teeth match. Plus, I had to buy a new retainer because it no longer fit my teeth.I love my retainer; it is a security blanket for me. It is purple with sparkles and a humming bird sticker. I was so excited to get it because I joined the "people who had braces" club. Daniel couldn't believe that I would wear it for everything. I like this one because I could eat with it and it was totally discreet (I have it in my mouth in the second picture). My new one doesn't have a sticker on it, it is purple with sparkles, but it is the most obvious hideous retainer. This one looks like it was made when retainers first came out. I am thankful to have a retainer back in my mouth, but I hate this new one.

More than you bargained for when you asked what happened.