Never Say Cheese

04 Apr 2010 1 Comment

by Shilpa in Personal Tags: picture perfect, smile

That’s what probably I would have to do with for the rest part of my life whenever the shutterbugs would be on. The reason – I have by default bucked teeth. Well, my friends say they never noticed that. In fact, Sangeeta, my good friend said rather matter-of-factly that, I have a perfect smile and I don’t need any of the needless procedures to set it right beyond perfection. Honest and heartfelt confession – I have been embarrassed by the strange pout and the uneven alignment for as long as I can remember. Sigh!!

It’s been a couple of weeks since my dentist appointment. And must say quite an experience that was!! Waiting for the Doc to return from an emergency surgery, I realized I had to get rid of my allergy before I have to achieve any further dreams in my life. Because by the time I reached the clinic, my skin was covered with red patches all over. So before I could be any further embarrassed by my smile, I was even more embarrassed turning into Red Riding Hood, which for me was skin deep…….literally. When I was finally called in by the Doc, after a grueling long wait for about one and half hour, whatever procedure the Doc undertook made me realize that I was a tad too late for the treatment. I should have done that decades ago possibly in my schooling years. The final verdict – in order to have the so-called ‘perfect smile’ as the Doc put it, the braces and the et al treatment would erupt the current alignment of my teeth way too bad. Doesn’t the description sound more like the uprooted trees and houses, when hit by high intensity earthquakes. Wow!! Never knew a simple, b’ful and a perfect 32 watts smile could cost me so much pain probably with no gains and with a bonus of uprooted alignment as well. As once the braces are set in, you have to be way too regular with the dentist appointments to get the super perfect smile and alignment. There are no two other ways for that.

To top it off, as I had popped in some heavy doses of antihistamines for my dreaded allergy, it made me feel agonizingly lethargic, groggy and sleepy. The heart palpitations were simply horrendous. By the time the effect of the pills wore off (which was almost about after 10/11 hours), I was in a haze the entire day. God!!! I hate the antibiotics. My futile visit to the dentist made me realize one thing tough, that I can make peace with the bucked teeth for the rest part of my life but not my damn chronic urticaria. Period!! Eventually it would have to go……I’m leaving no choice for my allergy.

So for now much to my despise, it would have to be my lopsided smile – a fixed expression probably for the rest part of my life. That truly SUCKS!! But, honestly for the first time, it doesn’t matter……. not anymore…….

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