Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post, but all thoughts and opinions (and painful memories) are my own.
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Listen, I’m about to impart some super-private info here. We’re talking some real Behind The Curtain stuff.
I have not always been this glamorous. (Take as long as you need.)
Back in the fourth grade, I possessed an overbite that could chop wood. One of my most awful of le awful memories in life was when a group of girls persuaded me to sit sideways on a desk and then ran across the room to check out my profile.
“You’re right,” they whispered in a not at all whisper, “you can only see her top two teeth like this!”
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| There has yet to be a cure for multiple braids. |
My parents put me in braces soon thereafter. Metal braces. The kind with wraparound headgear and rainbow rubber bands and wax tabs to soften wires o’ death.
Unfortunately, the braces had to come off a little early, due to the fact that I was the only person in Massachusetts (circa 1990) with an allergy to latex. And, aside from the metal parts, every single apparatus involved with braces back then was comprised entirely of latex.
Fast forward fifteen years. I had just starting dating a guy whom I knew was The One. (I hadn’t bothered to let him know; he’d figure it out eventually.) And I knew that I wanted to [finally] have awesome teeth for our [future, as-yet-unplanned] wedding.
So I chose Invisalign for my adult braces; they were clear, they were affordable, and they were latex-free. At the time, I was auditioning like a banshee- and metal braces would’ve been a bit of a deal breaker. Other stuff I dug: I could take the Invisalign trays out to eat, to floss, to have super-close-up-glamour-shots, etc., etc., etc.
My favorite part of the whole treatment was the instant gratification of it all. A computer-generated series of images of my mouth was created at the first office visit, showing how each set of aligners would subtly shift the teeth into place. (Painlessly, too!) I was actually able to see the progress of my teeth every time I removed my aligners, as opposed to waiting for a big ol’ reveal at the end of two years with metal braces.
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| I still possess the biggest mouth ever, but thanks to Invisalign my teeth are now straight, and that’s my point. |
I love my new (non-embarrassing) mouth, for five years and goin’ strong.
Take the Smile Assessment for yourself and see if you or a family member would be a perfect fit for Invisalign (they now offer Invisalign Teen for the younger set!) and to get more info about this rad product. And swing by here to check out all of the cases which Invisalign can fix; I was surprised to see the complexity of some of these toothly issues, most of which used to only be treated by metal braces!
‘Cause seriously, no one should ever have to sit sideways on a desk to illuminate their rabbit teeth. So check out Invisalign.
Your inner fourth grader will thank you.
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