Potato long teeth story
First time potato 🥔 is excited about her orthodontist 🦷 appointment 🥔😚
My braces story goes back so far!!! Those damn braces took so long because of many gaps in between such as covid happened, my immigration, my change of locations in Canada itself, and a couple of incompetent orthodontists along the way.. Which made me look for another .. and you know me.. it takes me ages to prioritize such stuff!
So.. my first orthodontist ever who put for me the braces did a good job in the beginning, but was a major reason of delay. He changed clinics several times and it was also during covid.. I still waited for him until he found a new clinic and then he left it, so then another, which was actually quite a while! No idea why I stuck with him at the time!! I think a couple of reasons, i was convinced he was really good.. also, at the time I was so busy with my immigration application so I was also in another world with some other priorities and stress.. Additionally, I had partnered with an ex colleague in a business during that time, and I got through this doctor the clinic accounts to be handled through my business, so perhaps part of me also appreciated him personally for that...
Anyhow, time passes but i go back to treatment with him and we reach the point where we were pulling my damn canine out!
I’ve had all cute, small, and white milk canines as an adult.. those never fell out like normal potatoes for some reason 🤷🏽♀ too much calcium ? i was a milk addict as a baby and a child, I am told lol.. Anyhow, three of them were easy remove and have the permanent ones replacing them.. I can’t even remember now, but I think either the permanent one was partially out but behind the milk one or something like that.. except for that damn last one!! The permanent tooth was just deeply buried inside! We were pulling it out for ages and nothing is happening.. and hey, I am no doctor, but I swear I thought to myself the way he is pulling it and the direction just don’t make the slightest sense at all! But because I trusted him, I didn’t question..
Until he told me one day that it is never coming out and that he suggests we remove it and plant one.. I was like, WTF? Here I lost it! Especially that every session he would knock on it ✊🏽 and be like, yea you hear the sound, it is coming out! And I am like, ah okay? And this session he knocks and is like, hmm now it is not coming out! Are you freaking kidding me? Lol Just last session you were saying it was coming out!! And tbh during that time my relationship with him had already began to go south as I started doubting him.. I feel it all sucked after he left his first well known clinic.. it is like he was working well only there, or how I felt 🥔🤷🏽♀
Anyhow, you know me, I lost it!! So we have been pulling it for ages, and of course I am paying for each session, and now you are like, let’s just remove it 🥔🤷🏽♀ So that was the last straw and I left him and looked for another after I took all my medical records and scans angrily...
I went to another clinic as a consultation and he said that it was being pulled incorrectly all this time and I was like, you don’t say! I really knew it! I was not sure if that doctor was doing it on purpose still, but it is really difficult for me to believe he was THAT dumb when (((I))) could tell that it was wrong! Especially that he was working for a big clinic before so I was pissed because I felt he did it on purpose.
This clinic was more expensive and while willing to pay because I really wanted to get it done right, I still visited other clinics! And here I met my dream orthodentist 🥔🥹
It was a smaller clinic, literally for half the price I used to pay which got me suspicious.. and they are my teeth and braces that go forever, so it is not a place to cheap out! The doctor was young.. but then when he saw my canine and said the same thing that it was being pulled wrong, I trusted him because he arrived to the same conclusion and I also get vibes and I felt I want to try him out!
That doctor was AMAZING !!! He was so invested in my teeth as if they were his lol!!! He started pulling the tooth out, and it took ages again of course but he was trying every way he could.. Every visit I go, before I lie he is asking me: ANY PROGRESS?? It is like he can’t wait until he sees for himself lol and if there was no progress he would get so frustrated even more than me lol and when we started making progress he was like; ahhh there is a light at the end of the tunnel! It was crazy how much invested he was, and for half the price did an amazing job and managed to get most of the canine out … But.. immigration time came and I had to leave him!
I am not joking! He was the one thing that made me think twice about immigration time.. I really wanted him to finish the job! But with teeth, you can’t predict progress and it doesn’t make sense to postpone something like this because of it..
It was really sad when I left him and we had connectes, he even gave me his card and asked me to send him progress when the teeth was fully out, it was his baby project lol
Then comes Canada.. I lived downtown.. The first orthodontist I met sounded okay.. after first session, I left and gave him a bad review.. He simply came in, looked at my teeth without a word to me, and gave instructions to the nurse and then out. Me: Does he think I am a piece of furniture here? So I called him back in, and told him you need to explain the status to me, what we are trying to achieve and how you will achieve it!! Don’t go in, give instructions about my teeth and leave!! I could tell he didn’t like it and was explaining to me as if like, who are you to even ask!
So I left him.. looked for others downtown but I will say something.. for some reason majority of orthodontists downtown are Arabs! No idea why! Like that one I had in the beginning and was Syrian.. and while I am an Arab too, I had a big problem with their attitude and this is a deal breaker to me, I need to trust the doctor and that attitude was not helping.. I mean, not being self hating or anything, but I think Arab doctors think they are the president of the world or something because they became doctors 🥔🤷🏽♀ especially if dealing with another Arab! My previous dream orthodontist was Egyptian though and was amazing 😻
That meant the entire year i lived downtown I looked for a while for orthodontist and didn’t find a good one.. then I started dating my BF and was spending a lot of my weekends out of the city and was also planning to buy a place so it didn’t make sense to look for one downtown..
Then I buy a place and now I need to find one.. I found one that seemed good near my place but the thing is that the one thing outstanding was a gap between the precious damn canine tooth we pulled out and my teeth and that gap just didn’t seem to close!!!! No progress that I almost lost hope..
Until recently I felt pain in the canine tooth and my first thought is that something wrong with it not that the gap is closing finally! I didn’t even realize it and this is how oblivious I can be!!! Until one day recently I was closely looking and I could barely see the gap anymore.. there is still some but it is very small!!
I can’t believe it! So it is actually happening!!! And soon I may be able to remove those fu**ng braces!!!!! So I can’t wait to go to the appointment today to show the progress and hear back about next steps!!
Yes this freaking long story was all to just say that the gap in my teeth was closing ! This is funny, I take some ADHD medication that is supposed to stimulate my brain to start tasks and get focused.. but I feel when I take it, I get an urge to write.. long and a lot!
My braces story goes back so far!!! Those damn braces took so long because of many gaps in between such as covid happened, my immigration, my change of locations in Canada itself, and a couple of incompetent orthodontists along the way.. Which made me look for another .. and you know me.. it takes me ages to prioritize such stuff!
So.. my first orthodontist ever who put for me the braces did a good job in the beginning, but was a major reason of delay. He changed clinics several times and it was also during covid.. I still waited for him until he found a new clinic and then he left it, so then another, which was actually quite a while! No idea why I stuck with him at the time!! I think a couple of reasons, i was convinced he was really good.. also, at the time I was so busy with my immigration application so I was also in another world with some other priorities and stress.. Additionally, I had partnered with an ex colleague in a business during that time, and I got through this doctor the clinic accounts to be handled through my business, so perhaps part of me also appreciated him personally for that...
Anyhow, time passes but i go back to treatment with him and we reach the point where we were pulling my damn canine out!
I’ve had all cute, small, and white milk canines as an adult.. those never fell out like normal potatoes for some reason 🤷🏽♀ too much calcium ? i was a milk addict as a baby and a child, I am told lol.. Anyhow, three of them were easy remove and have the permanent ones replacing them.. I can’t even remember now, but I think either the permanent one was partially out but behind the milk one or something like that.. except for that damn last one!! The permanent tooth was just deeply buried inside! We were pulling it out for ages and nothing is happening.. and hey, I am no doctor, but I swear I thought to myself the way he is pulling it and the direction just don’t make the slightest sense at all! But because I trusted him, I didn’t question..
Until he told me one day that it is never coming out and that he suggests we remove it and plant one.. I was like, WTF? Here I lost it! Especially that every session he would knock on it ✊🏽 and be like, yea you hear the sound, it is coming out! And I am like, ah okay? And this session he knocks and is like, hmm now it is not coming out! Are you freaking kidding me? Lol Just last session you were saying it was coming out!! And tbh during that time my relationship with him had already began to go south as I started doubting him.. I feel it all sucked after he left his first well known clinic.. it is like he was working well only there, or how I felt 🥔🤷🏽♀
Anyhow, you know me, I lost it!! So we have been pulling it for ages, and of course I am paying for each session, and now you are like, let’s just remove it 🥔🤷🏽♀ So that was the last straw and I left him and looked for another after I took all my medical records and scans angrily...
I went to another clinic as a consultation and he said that it was being pulled incorrectly all this time and I was like, you don’t say! I really knew it! I was not sure if that doctor was doing it on purpose still, but it is really difficult for me to believe he was THAT dumb when (((I))) could tell that it was wrong! Especially that he was working for a big clinic before so I was pissed because I felt he did it on purpose.
This clinic was more expensive and while willing to pay because I really wanted to get it done right, I still visited other clinics! And here I met my dream orthodentist 🥔🥹
It was a smaller clinic, literally for half the price I used to pay which got me suspicious.. and they are my teeth and braces that go forever, so it is not a place to cheap out! The doctor was young.. but then when he saw my canine and said the same thing that it was being pulled wrong, I trusted him because he arrived to the same conclusion and I also get vibes and I felt I want to try him out!
That doctor was AMAZING !!! He was so invested in my teeth as if they were his lol!!! He started pulling the tooth out, and it took ages again of course but he was trying every way he could.. Every visit I go, before I lie he is asking me: ANY PROGRESS?? It is like he can’t wait until he sees for himself lol and if there was no progress he would get so frustrated even more than me lol and when we started making progress he was like; ahhh there is a light at the end of the tunnel! It was crazy how much invested he was, and for half the price did an amazing job and managed to get most of the canine out … But.. immigration time came and I had to leave him!
I am not joking! He was the one thing that made me think twice about immigration time.. I really wanted him to finish the job! But with teeth, you can’t predict progress and it doesn’t make sense to postpone something like this because of it..
It was really sad when I left him and we had connectes, he even gave me his card and asked me to send him progress when the teeth was fully out, it was his baby project lol
Then comes Canada.. I lived downtown.. The first orthodontist I met sounded okay.. after first session, I left and gave him a bad review.. He simply came in, looked at my teeth without a word to me, and gave instructions to the nurse and then out. Me: Does he think I am a piece of furniture here? So I called him back in, and told him you need to explain the status to me, what we are trying to achieve and how you will achieve it!! Don’t go in, give instructions about my teeth and leave!! I could tell he didn’t like it and was explaining to me as if like, who are you to even ask!
So I left him.. looked for others downtown but I will say something.. for some reason majority of orthodontists downtown are Arabs! No idea why! Like that one I had in the beginning and was Syrian.. and while I am an Arab too, I had a big problem with their attitude and this is a deal breaker to me, I need to trust the doctor and that attitude was not helping.. I mean, not being self hating or anything, but I think Arab doctors think they are the president of the world or something because they became doctors 🥔🤷🏽♀ especially if dealing with another Arab! My previous dream orthodontist was Egyptian though and was amazing 😻
That meant the entire year i lived downtown I looked for a while for orthodontist and didn’t find a good one.. then I started dating my BF and was spending a lot of my weekends out of the city and was also planning to buy a place so it didn’t make sense to look for one downtown..
Then I buy a place and now I need to find one.. I found one that seemed good near my place but the thing is that the one thing outstanding was a gap between the precious damn canine tooth we pulled out and my teeth and that gap just didn’t seem to close!!!! No progress that I almost lost hope..
Until recently I felt pain in the canine tooth and my first thought is that something wrong with it not that the gap is closing finally! I didn’t even realize it and this is how oblivious I can be!!! Until one day recently I was closely looking and I could barely see the gap anymore.. there is still some but it is very small!!
I can’t believe it! So it is actually happening!!! And soon I may be able to remove those fu**ng braces!!!!! So I can’t wait to go to the appointment today to show the progress and hear back about next steps!!
Yes this freaking long story was all to just say that the gap in my teeth was closing ! This is funny, I take some ADHD medication that is supposed to stimulate my brain to start tasks and get focused.. but I feel when I take it, I get an urge to write.. long and a lot!
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