All praises to Blu Tack

So it's been 3 months since I got braces. The first few days was not good for me. I predicted that it would be Satan's personal brand of hell for me but like my dentist said I was just over-thinking.He never fails to tell me that every damn visit mainly because it's true. The hardest part was the fooooooood. I lost weight the first week(as if being almost skeletal wasn't enough)due to extreme discomfort in my mouth. I see myself as someone who has a pretty low tolerance for pain but hey I was eating briyani by the 3rd day and biting into burgers by that week. There were fleeting moments of regret because I didn't exactly want it. I was just succumbing to the pressure of my mum.

(TEETH NO STRAIGHT=YOU NO HUSBAND) So anyways I was and still am getting used to it. I did not feel anything that could possibly make me cringe in pain.However, I have to say, the metal brackets are shit-assed bastards. I'm not sure why the manufacturers of the metal brackets can't for god's sake blunt the edges of these metal shitheaded brackets AKA razorsharp-katana-i'll f*ckin kill you-bladesofhorror. I was given dental wax the day my 4 calcified friends were extracted by the dentist's very reliable plier. That packet of dental wax were my good comrades for the following weeks to come. If not for them my inner cheeks would have been scraped inside out. So anyways, my inner cheeks got used to the metal brackets and I was doing fine.Even after my second appointment.

That is UNTIL my 3rd appointment came by. It was the biggest mistake to have not stocked up on more dental wax because I was under the assumption that since I've survived the whole of the 2nd month without my trusty dental wax I could go on without it for the remaining period. It started out as light grazes and by the end of the day I had deep cuts in my inner cheeks. The brackets were digging deeeeep and kept getting stuck to the flesh of my cheeks and pulled them apart. I-was-in-pain.

I couldn't sleep and everytime I opened my mouth or so little as pursed my lips,the brackets were anchoring itself even deeper into my wounded cheeks. I went scouring the whole of Yishun to get my hands on Dental wax.I went all the way to the pharmacies at Northpoint to be told that only dentists carry dental wax. F**k this shit,I thought and went to the dental clinics nearby. Unfortunately,they don't do braces and no dental wax for me.When I finaaaaally chanced upon a dental clinic which does braces...it was closed.

Desperate times called for desperate measures and I brainstormed.What would be the perfect substitute for dental wax?Gum?But I don't have access to gum.Plasticine?Ugh no way. Blu-Tack? WAIT!Blu-tack is perfect! So yes I did buy Blu-tack because I couldn't care less about anything else and just wanted to stop the agony. I felt relief flooding in as I stuck wads of Blu-tack on my brackets.

BluTack has 1000's of uses and apparently acting as replacement of dental wax is one of them. Who knew. Anyways, I managed to get dental wax the next day but I must say Blu tack was an even better cushion than dental wax. ALL PRAISES TO BLU TACK