Living with braces

Monday 3 April was the first day when i put on the braces.

it was not painful initially. after that, you feel slight pain that feels like pressure, regardless whether you go and disturb the tooth.

then it was not painful unless you disturb the tooth, such as biting, eating etc.

for the past few days, i have been eating breads and porridge. i guess i could eat normal food from next week ba~~

SOME COMMENTS ON THE WHOLE PROCEDURE

a lot of us thought that wearing braces is a torture for us. it is a pain. however no pain no gain. we just have to live with it ba~

in reality, it is not as much pain as we spectulated initially. all spectulations are false. yes, there is still pain, but most of the time it has been minimised so that life would not be miserable.

1. to put on braces, you'll have to consult an experienced dentist who knows about wear braces thingy as he/she can consult you whether you could wear braces or not and the price.

2. then the dentist will require you to do a model of your tooth region, so that he/she could examine and analyse the conditions and whether they fulfill the requirements prior to wearing braces.

3. ok, so the model has been done and the dentist has analysed the situation. what's next? he/she could require you to have some tooth extracted. this is done so as to create space for the movement of the remaining tooth. some have 1 tooth extracted, but usually for majority, 4 tooth have to be extracted. for me, i had 5 tooth extracted. so this extraction of tooth depends on every individual.

4. the process of extraction of tooth is not pain at all. the dentist will put some 麻醉药 to numb the gum region where the teeth would be extracted. next, the dentist use a pair of calipers to pluck out the teeth. the painful part is when the 麻醉效应 slowly and gradually fate off, you start to feel a little pain here as you bite the 纱布. the 纱布 is used to stop the blood oozing too much. you'll have to consume antibiotics after the extraction of tooth to prevent infections.

5. after a few days when the situation gets better, you'll then visit the dentist. he/she will now clean the mouth before he/she implants the braces on your tooth. this process, again, is not painful at all! he/she uses a special kind of light to fix it on. so you'll not feel any pain.

6. the only pain comes when the tooth cannot withstand the force of the metal bar. the metal bar is used to align the crooked tooth. the tooth start to feel stress under the metal bar and this is where the pain comes from. as time goes by, you'll have to visit the dentist every month to have the braces adjusted. the dentist will also change the metal bar to a thicker one, so as to further align the tooth by force.

7. normally people have to wear braces for about 2 years. however, if things speed up fast enough, the time taken could be shorten. as for the price, it ranges from 2k++ to 3k++.