Welcome to Unbreakable Latina.

Hi guys, welcome back to Unbreakable Latina. This is your host Melina. I hope you're having an amazing day, whatever day you're listening to this on.

If I sound a bit different, it's because I have braces, so I have a little lisp and I'm learning how to talk with my braces.

So bear with me in the following 18 months. My bottom teeth have always been an insecurity of mine,

but when the internet bullies came at me, it just became something that I hyper fixated on.

Anytime I recorded a video, I would always just look at my bottom teeth.

And, you know, I do Botox, I get my eyebrows done. I do a bunch of stuff

facials. Like, why not get my teeth fixed? The reason that it took me so long is because I had a

traumatic experience at Western Dental. Don't ever go there. When I was like 16, I caught a bad

infection from them because they don't sanitize their

equipment. And honestly, I just had a bad experience with the dentist in general. So I didn't go

for a long time, which is very disgusting to admit. And when I, I don't know, when I got my

current job, I finally got like good insurance and I decided to get back into the dentist slowly.

Finally found a dentist I trusted. That's why I got my wisdom teeth removed.

And then they suggested braces. They suggested envisaline, but I kept going back and forth.

And honestly, I don't know. It sounds like they're both painful.

It sounds like they're both a pain in the butt. But so far, my experience as an adult, a 35-year-old

with braces, has been definitely humbling. It was very painful for the first two weeks.

I think I'm on exactly two weeks from the day that I got him.

I haven't really been able to eat like my normal snacks, my normal foods. I barely ate meat

the other day and it was the best carnace that I ever had. But it's been definitely humbling and

just very exhausting too. But at the same time I'm, it will be worth it in the end when I have super straight smile.

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