Personal Narrative: My Mommy's Invisaline

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In the human oral cavity, third molars, or more commonly known as wisdom teeth, are the last teeth to grow in the mouth. Roughly 5 million Americans have their wisdom teeth extracted every year. Generally most dentists and oral surgeons recommend their patients to have their wisdom teeth removed during early adulthood to prevent hazardous problems like disease, infection, cysts, tumors, and damage to surrounding teeth. Now, why most people have the cliché story of being put to sleep, waking up in a hysteric state of mind resulting from the anesthetic and pain meds, and a mouth stuffed full of gauze, my story however is a little out of the ordinary. Every year my Grammy, Papa, my brother Noah, and myself take a trip down to Troy, Illinois…show more content…
The Boatman’s are huge St. Louis Cardinals fans and they have season tickets every year. Other than coming to celebrate my Grammy’s birthday, one of the other reasons that my Uncle Buck and Aunt Julie came to Troy was to finish my Aunt Julie’s Invisaline. Essentially, Invisaline is a retainer like form of braces but they are invisible, hence the name. Invisaline is a very costly procedure and my Uncle Rich did it for free for her, like all of the other dental work he graciously does for our family. The night before we left for home, we were going to take a trip to the dental office after dinner to make the final touches on Julie’s Invisaline. During dinner I had mentioned how some of my wisdom teeth had surfaced through my gums and had begun to cause me some discomfort. Uncle Rich said that we would take an x-ray at the office and see if they needed to come out anytime soon. Little did I know, soon meant a lot sooner than I…show more content…
Uncle Rich has a technique for when he gives shots so that it’s nearly painless. He does this thing where he pinches the cheek and shakes it vigorously while giving the injection. It basically works as a distraction from the initial pain of the shot. Nine shots, and a half and our later we were ready to begin the procedure. I felt like I was in a peanut gallery. Here I am, laying in this chair all sorts of high from all of the drugs I’ve been given, all the while my entire family is sitting in the room drinking beer and waiting to watch the main event, my surgery! I was prepared as I was ever going to be for the surgery to begin. Instead of using a scalpel, Dr. Boatman used a lazar to cut into my gums. He proceeded to make the first incision, I didn’t feel a thing. He and Amanda then worked and pushed the tooth up and out of my gum until it was completely out. “It’s a girl,” he chanted as he showed the tooth to the audience around the

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