For my 49th birthday I treated myself to finally moving forward with getting my teeth straightened.  I will confess that I was a touch apprehensive on the day of my installation appointment as I sat in the waiting room awaiting the fate of my decision. I will even admit to pretending to be a parent there just waiting for my child instead of being there for my own appointment. I tried my best not to look like a patient and then my name was called and my cover was blown. Actually I was glad to get out of the waiting room because I was tired of losing at all the video games to the little kids.

As I waited relaxing in the chair I thought back to my initial visit with Dr. Frost when he told me that he had several patients that were further advance in their years (still not sure if that made me feel better or not) and I wondered how many people older than me sat there in  that same chair. I looked to my right and saw an 8 year old kid and reality sat in and I came to the conclusion that there probably weren’t many. Then a nice young girl started rolling my chair back into position and she began telling me what the next 30 minutes of my life was going to consist of. It actually didn’t sound too bad and I was ready for my braces. It was nice to know that she was interested enough to take the time to explain what was happening.

She began by putting the lip spreader (I’m not sure if that is what it is really called but sure what it felt like) in my mouth. I do recommend that if you are thinking about doing this and you have chapped lips apply some lip balm before starting. As she tightened the lip spreader and started preparing my teeth for the application of the brackets I looked to the 8 year old kid and decided I needed to set the example and I winked and him and he winked back. Part way through the procedure they let me up out of the chair to rinse whatever she sandblasted my teeth with out of my mouth. My comfort was short lived and back into the chair with the lip spreader. I waited for my teeth to dry and the Dr. to come and install the brackets for the metal work.

My next challenge was wondering what my friends, family and coworkers were going to think. I showed up to work the next day and heard comments like, cool, right on and good for you. Not the teasing that I was expecting. I guess it’s true that what goes around comes around because I took the most abuse (well deserved I might add) from my kids. I was humbled a bit to get advice from them about all the dos and don’ts of having braces.

Almost everything in life can be summed up with a good news bad news type of scenario and you guessed it, this one is going to also. Bad news is I only have one regret about not getting my braces done earlier and that is my parents would have paid for them and now I get too. Good news is, in waiting until now it awarded me the opportunity to associate with Dr. Frost and his staff and I would have missed out on getting to know them. Everyone there is really great and for that I’m glad I waited all these years. I have no problem with recommending to anyone young or “older” about going to Dr. Frost and staff for their orthodontic needs.

Thank you Dr Frost and staff.

Kelly