You've all had someone tell you that the more you smile, the more smile wrinkles you will get when you are older. Usually this instruction is accompanied by a warning, that if you frown, you will develop frown wrinkles in your old age.
Getting braces, often results in the patient being hesitant to open their mouth for fear of showing their braces.
I guess I've taken the opposite approach. When my husband comes home and asks how my day was, I give him the biggest smile I can. Just to have him laugh at me.
My children think I look different with braces on. One even said I was freaky looking.
Smiling actually is more comfortable than frowning. The bigger you smile, the more comfortable it is.
It is in the closing of the mouth after smiling that things get cumbersome. First you have to extend your upper lip to clear the braces on the top. If you are not careful enough and close your bottom lip too soon, it can get snagged on the I teeth of the bottom braces. Sometimes I fear I might tear my lip.
Thanks to my new braces I get to practice slow smiles and develop wonderful smile wrinkles.
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