FRIDAY! And PAIN-FREE....well...mostly...

HAPPY FRIDAY!!! It's my third day with invisalign, and I am happy to report that I am mostly pain-free!!  I got a little too cocky this morning and took them out to brush my teeth and again a little later to eat breakfast, so my most crooked tooth did start to hurt a little.  But, it's nothing compared to the first and second days!! 

I've been getting a lot of surprised looks when I tell people I have invisalign on (no, not because they are invisible) but because most people couldn't tell that my teeth were crooked in the first place.  It's shocking to me because for so many years I was extremely self-conscious about my teeth.  I worked in a camp this summer with teenagers (who were brutally honest), and most of them noticed I needed braces.  I wonder if it's an age thing or perhaps a discretion thing?  Either way, I know that I needed them not only for cosmetic reasons but because my bite was so off that I was getting more cavities. 

There are little ways to tell that I do need braces in my pictures where I'm actually smiling, if you can manage to find them.  The 'fang' look on top is one symptom of an overbite and overall my smile isn't as wide as it should be.  You can't really see my bottom teeth, but they are super crooked.  I promised pictures earlier; I will try to post them at least this weekend (before my teeth get any straighter hehe). 

I also promised that this blog would be a little more exciting than just me whining about the pain of invisalign (my coworker asked me if I wanted some cheese with that whine the other day--clever).  Anyway, so I guess this is a good time to explain why I never got braces as a child.  When my dad divorced my mom, it was a huge change in finances, and so she couldn't afford my braces when I needed them in high school.  BUT, there's another reason.  This is really hard for me to put on this blog, but I actually didn't stop sucking my thumb until high school.  Yeah, that's right, I sucked my thumb all through middle school and didn't stop until my freshman year of high school.  SO, when everyone else had their cool, colorful braces on I was still secretly sucking my thumb at night.  I'm paying for that all now.  Lesson learned.