Saturday, June 16, 2007

How Did it Come to This?

When I finally got out on my own and graduated from college I knew I had to catch up on some dental work. Wait, no. Lemme start over.

When I finally secured some permanency in my job and began receiving dental benefits (which was actually about two years after I graduated college) I figured I should probably start taking advantage of them. Stop. Hold on.

When I finally secured some permanency in my job and began receiving dental benefits it was probably a toothache that made me take advantage of them. I'll be the first to say that despite many spells of dental hygiene mantainence attempts (both obsessive and completely non-existant) I have always had difficulty avoiding more than routine cleanings.

During college I went to the dentist once a year over the summertime when I was home and that's it. After I graduated I was no longer under my parent's insurance and had to wait it out until I got my own. Needless to say those first couple appointments with my newfound dentist (Dr. Anton Misleh) were spent ruthlessly cleaning the years of crap now built up on my teeth and eating my gums away. Eventually things got up to snuff and I was no longer a dental biohazard zone. Throughout my dentist would ask me when and if I planned on getting braces. I'd tell him I already had braces in middle and high school and hadn't thought about getting them again. (I'll tell this story some other time as it really does deserve its own post.) He'd tell me that straighter teeth would obviously look better but he was more interested in the fact that it would make my teeth easier to clean. Hence, less bacteria hiding and causing problems. Over the last year or so things have been good dentally and financially so I started thinking about getting braces again. I have to be honest though, much of the decision was based on getting my dentist to lay of the badgering about when I'd have it done. So "The new year" became my lift-off date. I went home for Christmas this past year and when I got back the search for an orthodontist began.

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