Hmmm….well it only took about a week and my tongue did in fact get used to the buttons rubbing on it ceaselessly…go figure! I stopped poking continuously at the elastics with the tip of my tongue, which was nice too, (the novelty just wore off). My teeth adjusted to the extra pressures of the wire and buttons and they are not sore either. So I can eat and brush with ease again…isn’t the human body’s ability to adapt amazing! The only side issue is that foods that are ‘stringy’ tend to get stuck around the buttons. For example nectarine pulp, bean shoots, ham, orange ...
Adult Braces Journey – No Gum!
December 1st, 2009
The awful chewing gum debacle Well I have read on other forums advice that you can use chewing gum on sore areas if you have no wax available, and this was exactly the predicament I found myself in one morning. I was at my son’s school for an end of year performance and the rear brackets had been rubbing on my cheek making it uncomfortable to talk (probably due to the cheek workout I experienced from singing in the car as I drove there!) so I decided to try the gum. I chewed it to soften it then positioned it with my ...