1. Being told you were getting braces and thinking “AH FOR GOD’S SAKE”
At best, you were concerned about them cramping your style. At worst, you were upset because you already had glasses and really, they were enough to worry about.
2. Having to sit for hours* with this disgusting concoction in your mouth
*OK, minutes. But the longest minutes of your life. Would this be the time you choked to death? Who knew!
3. Not being able to eat solid food for ages after getting them tightened
When it got to two days and you started worrying that something was terribly wrong:
4. And when you could eat again, being SUPER conscious of food getting stuck in there
You ate with your hand in front of your mouth AND sprinted to the bathroom after to check every bracket.
5. Being forbidden certain foods, but eating them anyway out of spite
It was worth having to pick Doritos out of your brackets for days after. It was!
6. When they gave you a little tub of wax, like it would solve all your problems
*puts a bit of wax on a bracket*
*mouth is still a painful mess*
Great solution, thanks a mil.
7. And these elastics, which you regularly found scattered all over the house
8. Straight up lying to your orthodontist about wearing them because they’re too much trouble
Let’s be real – who has the time or the patience.
9. Being stabbed in the cheek by an overlong wire
SNIP THE FECKER, FFS.
10. And getting these ‘spacers’ in to make room for your soon-to-be perfect teeth
Pain. Pain like no other.
10. Hearing horror stories about people getting in trapped in braces mid-shift
That could happen to you! If you ever managed to get the shift, that is.
11. Trying to smile without teeth for photos
You’re all like:
12. Thinking you were finally free once you got them off…
Hello everyone, have you seen my beautiful teeth? Gaze upon them!
13. But realising you were very wrong
Oh COME ON.
