Friday, November 12th, 2010
In a Pickle…Because of a Pickle
A couple of weeks ago, we had a team celebration at a local brewery to celebrate a very big and very fancy award that one of our campaigns won. There was a lovely meat and cheese display which featured interesting looking pickles. I filled my plate with goodness and later bit into one of the pickles (No Snooki jokes, please) and the skin from the pickle lodged up underneath my permanent retainer and hurt reaaaaalllly bad. I was able to move the pickle debris out from underneath the wire and thought nothing of it. UNTIL 3 a.m the next morning. I woke up with throbbing pain in one of my front teeth. I was able to get back to sleep and the next morning, still in a lot of pain, called Bill’s dentist (my dentist is a creeper and I quit him). My only option was a 3:30 appointment that day, which I couldn’t make work as I had an out-of-town work retreat to attend.
The pain finally went away and I went to the dentist the following Tuesday. Upon examination of my mouth, the dentist reported that my retainer was unattached from my teeth in 3 spots (it’s supposed to be attached in 6 spots). I hightailed it to my orthodontist (a week later, whatever) to find that the retainer was not unattached in 4 spots and that my teeth had MOVED SIGNIFICANTLY
So, in two weeks, I will report back to the orthodontist’s to either get a new retainer…or Invisalign. All because a pickle broke my retainer.
What the damn hell, internet? What would you do?
(This concludes the most boring blog post in the history of ever. Everyone I know in real life is already sick and tired of hearing about this and quite frankly, I’m just not done talking about it.)
Comments on this post
So the pickle did it?
12. November - 12:12 pmDude, I FEEL your pain.
a) On Scott’s birthday, we were eating at Panera for breakfast, and one of the veneers on my front tooth BROKE OFF and fell onto my plate. From a freakin’ bagel!
b) Because I stupidly went to the dentist while living in Denmark four years ago, I’ve had nothing but trouble on the two teeth they worked on. Most recently? ELEVEN appointments–most of them two hours or more and including one oral surgery–since AUGUST. And I still have one more to go to get the permanent crowns on in two weeks!
So this is me not giving you advice as I’m not one with much dental insight but to say I FEEL YOUR PAIN.
12. November - 1:35 pmCamels & Chocolate´s last [type] ..Photo Friday- Ticino- Switzerland
I never had braces or a retainer and I don’t like pickles. So I’m of no help.
12. November - 1:42 pmBrenda´s last [type] ..panic attacks
I HATE when retainers get messed up. The absolute worst thing ever. When your mouth hurts, you just can’t concentrate on anything else.
12. November - 1:58 pmKali´s last [type] ..Fall Daydreams
I can’t believe your teeth moved that fast. I have not worn my retainer since 8th grade and my dentist says my teeth are totally fine. Your teeth are Olympic sprinters.
12. November - 7:23 pmregan´s last [type] ..I went shopping!
I hate teeth. We should all get rid of them and eat pureed foods.
13. November - 10:28 amBritt´s last [type] ..Disrepair and ten accompanying facts
I had a permanent retainer and it fell off years ago. Nothing happened. I cannot believe your teeth moved that fast!
13. November - 4:21 pmUgh. My teeth moved aproximately ten milliseconds after my braces were removed, even with a permanent retainer on the bottom. I has snaggletooth. The top one doesn’t bother me too much because every woman on my mom’s side of the family has her top left front tooth protruding a little, so I feel like it is a sort of neat genetic trait (and it’s not that protrude-y). As for the bottom, well that just sucked. At one point I had THREE retainers… top, bottom (permanent) and bottom (removable). I got my permanent one removed for my 30th birthday. I don’t think they’ve moved since.
Good luck. I don’t think I would do braces/invisalign to fix mine, but primarily because I’m lazy and cheap. (And they’re nowhere near as bad as when I had braces originally.)
And thus ends the DORKIEST comment ever. I will now go back to putting masking tape on my glasses.
15. November - 8:13 amMaura´s last [type] ..Weekend Update
OMFG. O.M.F.G. Are you telling me this is what I have to look forward to when these beasts come off? I need to be terrified of pickles? PICKLES? I am going to go pull the covers over my head and try to sleep, despite adding pickles to the long list of stuff I am now afraid of putting in my mouth.
p.s. I can’t wait to hear what happens next!
19. November - 1:23 am