I just got braces!

So yeah, I just got braces! It was a very impulsive decision (blame huge discount) and I didn't even know anything about braces - yet - at least until I got home and start to dig out more about braces. So I'll be talking about my experience with braces now.

This is my third day and I feel tortured! I kinda regret it but I just keep reminding myself of the "Pepsodent smile" which I've been wanting badly, for years! At least after a year or so, I could gloat over my very own pepsodent smile.

What I wish I knew about BRACES:
1. It's supposed to be done by a specialist a.k.a orthodontist.
I had mine done by a non-specialist dentist. I'm a bit scared now, I hope everything will be okay though, I saw a horrifying picture of someone who went to a self proclaimed 'tooth expert' (they're not even a dentist!) to get braces because the price is super cheap, and within four months her front tooth sink in to the back while the root is poking out naked from the damn gum. Holy f*ck!
I hope I'd be okay, really, I mean my dentist seems nice, even though she's not a orthodontist, yet.

2. I need to wear retainers for the rest of my life
You read it right, for the rest of my life. Otherwise the teeth will start to rebel and revert back to their original hideous state they once were. Those jerks (teeth) like to see you wasting money getting new braces and being tortured all over again!

3. The 'antenna' on the canine bracket is poking my cheek

picture: somewhere from Google

This thing is really annoying, I need to get a dental wax real soon. Other than that, unless if I'm chewing something, my teeth don't hurt. But I do feel this weird sensation like my teeth are being pulled away.

4. What else... THE TORTURE IS REAL! I hope I knew it's gonna be this hard just to eat something. I spent 2 hours trying to chow down Mc Donald's french fries and I couldn't even finish it! I think I'll just eat something soft and mushy like banana, oatmeal, or porridge :c

Other thing is, every freaking time I eat something, the food will get stuck in the brackets! I need to bring small brush and tooth paste everywhere I go now.

That's pretty much it, I'll be updating my braces experience again next time.
I'll still have to go to the same dentist in a week to get braces on my bottom teeth. I really hope everything will go well so that I don't have to actually go to an orthodontist because I nearly lose any of  my teeth or one of the root starts to poke straight out from the gum. Just kidding! That's not going to happen please God.

Oh, by the way, the dentist took one my teeth (the one right next to my cuspid) and I didn't even get to take a single painkiller. And like, I still had to drive home after that. It was a long, hot day, and the traffic was crazily jammed up. I desperately trying to find nearby drugstore but every single one of it was closed due to Eid mubarak! GG! After driving for almost an hour I found one drugstore but I still had to queue in a damn big line. I hoped I could just sit while queuing, and then there was this one funny grandpa with white hairs allover who kept talking to me, asking me what medicine I needed and telling me why he was there. I'm like 'oh God I seriously don't feel like talking now...' (even if it's Aragaki Yui I didn't even feel like talking that time), but he had such a big, happy smile on his face I'd just felt ridiculously bad if I have to ignore him. OTL

Well anyway, I ended up not taking the mefenafic acid, at all, it was way too late buddy! way too late! By the time I reached home (almost 2 hours) the pain had totally stopped :/