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hidden-highlands · 4 years ago

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been reading some posts about how a lot of orthodontic work is simultaneously inaccessibly expensive and often used primarily for aesthetic purposes and. it got me thinking

i’ve had mildly crooked / gappy teeth my entire adolescence / adulthood and it used to be my biggest insecurity, to the point where i refused to smile with my teeth for months when i was like 16 bc i was so self-conscious abt them, and even though i badly wanted to get them corrected we could never afford to

while i’d probably still take advantage of the opportunity to do so now, if i had the means, i’m no longer so cripplingly insecure abt my teeth anymore. it’s taken a LONG time to get to this point, but. i’m rly glad i got here in the end.

#i had to get two baby teeth (my incisors) pulled out when i was 17 and i had a major meltdown over the fact that i would have --#-- these massive gaps in my smile for god knows how long.#my school ball was a couple months later and in all the photos it deadass looks like i'm missing a whole-ass tooth lmfao #the adult teeth have since kiiiind of grown in & filled the gaps - but not entirely bc they grew in crooked #so i still have lil gaps there now but! i actually think theyre kind of cute now yknow!#anyway that's enough of my lil ramble #kiwi speaks

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