My braces came off today
Today I got my braces removed, the apointment was a lot faster than i anticipated. They just snapped the brackets off, cleaned the old glue off and took some molds for a retainer and took some photos. I went back that afternoon and got my retainer.
There were 3 hours between the end of my apointment and actually picking up my retainer, while I was in the city It wasnt really feesible to just go home and then come back in the afternoon because home was 90 minutes away as it was. So I went out for lunch and tried a chicken calzone - which I now know I love, and it was very weird eating without braces. And then went for a walk around a park and did some photography and it had been 2 hours and there was litterally nothing else I could think of to do.
So I spent another hour and 15 minutes in the waiting room, my phone had died so I got to read the readers digest magazine, this edition was printed in october of 2022 but somehow still felt like it was from the 80s. The headline topic was "The Placebo Debate", and answer was yes, palcebos do work, It was actually a rather poorly written artical I dont think it provided any counters to the placebo effect, I dont think it was a debate. Your welcoming for spoling an artical from a magazine from october of 2022.
I got my retainer and some stuff to clean it and went home.
It is such a weird feeling, like weirder than braces, its doing the same thing just from all around instead of only pulling from a single wire around the outside. Also it is kind of hard to talk, I have to purposefully speak clearly otherwise all that comes out is mumbles.
I have to wear it all the time except when eating or drinking not water for the next 3 days and then I only have to wear it while I'm sleeping.