My Teeth are Sitting Up and Taking Notice

When I smile, my lower front teeth usually get hidden behind my lower lip. I really had not paid much attention to them.

True, my mom had instructed me that if I just pushed with my tongue on the tooth that had grown in behind the others that it might move into place. I knew that I had a few crooked teeth but I wasn't too concerned. I was only concerned that my lower front teeth were beginning to wear down.

The morning the brackets were in place and the wire from fence post to fence post in my mouth, I was surprised that my teeth were THAT crooked.

It was like someone had drawn a dot-to-dot puzzle on my lower teeth.

In the past 3 weeks I have watched those crooked teeth slowly begin to move into place. It is exciting to see the progress. (If I could see this much progress when I tried to lose weight, I would have wonderful motivation.)

That tooth that has lived on the second row by herself all of her life now has a seat on the front row. Those fence posts are beginning to look more uniform and the wire strung on them is getting straighter and straighter in small ways each day.

But a few days ago, I discovered that one of my front lower teeth has been laying down on the job for years now. My braces have straighten it up though and now.....


....... it is TALLER than the other teeth.

Which teaches me that if you lay down on the job, you don't get so worn down.