Teeth

Well, it hasn’t been much of a fall. After the thing with my shoulder I gave up running, and I haven’t really replaced it with anything. Need to fix that. I am still riding my bicycle daily though, that is something.

anyway this morning i thought of something i can/should do—brighten up my teeth! i bought these aquafresh white trays back when I got my braces off, and used one before I realized you weren’t supposed to use them for two weeks before or after getting any dental work done. Whoops. And it’s a good thing too that I didn’t use them all back then, because after the cleaning I got done this fall—it was a doozy—I think all the whitened bits would have been scraped off and I’d have been left with teeth looking a little patchy.

(I must say, I’ve started using the soft piks instead of trying to floss around my retainer wire, and it’s made a world of difference. That is, I do it. I was barely flossing at all before, because of the hassle and pain of the threader. Now I soft pik & floss my uppers all the time.)

I’ve been thinking of my teeth lately too, because that pesky 12 looked like it was popping out again. sigh. My ortho told me I don’t need to wear my upper essix all the time anymore, “Just make sure you can still get it in and you’re fine.” Well, I think I need to wear it at least once a week, lest that 12 get a mind of its own.

Anyway. Every night I see the box of white trays as I stumble off to bed, and think, “But I want to fall asleep now, I don’t want to have to get up in 45 minutes to go spit out the tray and rinse out my mouth.”

So this morning I thought, why not now? I usually get up an hour before anyone else, and I’ve been experimenting with leaving off drinking coffee till I get to work, so why not do it in the morning?

So here I sit, mouth full of goop, feeling a bit odd, but hopefully making some tiny steps towards self-improvement.