Finishing Invisalign and Getting Retainers

I finally got my retainers. After a bit of a wait, I went in admittedly not knowing what was going to happen. After drilling down the hooks they applied on my teeth for the Invisalign, they started stringing floss between some of my teeth and applying gelatinous material on my center front teeth. Mom and I didn’t expect it would be this long involved process. Tools to dry and suck up saliva were shoved in and pulled out of my mouth. At last it was done and I found my front teeth seemed to be glued together. Then I had another mold of my teeth made for my retainers. We paid the last of our bills and a week later, I got the retainer surprisingly fast. 

I asked questions about how to deal with the glue-like stuff on my teeth, since it gets in the way of flossing and they said I should get floss threaders, which’ll help in the small gaps between my teeth and gums. We’ll have to order those online, though they were bemused I use both floss picks and water piks, since they thought if I had the latter, that was the only thing I needed. They did mention that after the wearing the retainer nightly for 6 months, I should downgrade it to 2-3 times a week, which I’m considering doing over weekends. I no longer have to go back to the orthodontists’ until something goes wrong with my retainers. In some ways, my teeth treatment’s still ongoing but I’m glad the process that took over a year is over.

I’ve hopped back to the mon-inspired original story after many delays. So far it’s just rewording lines or sentences for the first 60 pages. I’ve started on chapter 3 and I haven’t gotten to more substantial edits so far, though sometimes I think I should, either to add more details or change the events presented. Oh well, I’ll see how I go. I’m also doing rewrite notes for the final chapters of We Will Hold On Forever, albeit very slowly since there’s much I want to change and I keep tempting myself with distractions. Still, I’m over a third of the way through.

( Review and spoilers for Godzilla x Kong A New Empire )

That’s all for now. Had scary family fight near me yesterday and that shook me up. But the parties apparently apologized and settled things, so that’s somewhat assuring. Free Palestine and hostages on all sides. Until the end of June, see you!