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Welcome to Homemade.

I'm Shannon Kaysen.

You ever feel like a guinea pig to someone learning? You ever had to be the practice dummy? Tell me your story on Instagram. I'm at Shannon Kaysen. It's a story of the have and the have-nots. When you don't have, you're at the mercy of the circumstances.

My priority has always been prevention, especially now more than ever. Better to save and invest than spin. Better to work out and stretch now than be in pain later.

Better to brush my teeth than,

well, brushing your teeth should be a standard practice.

Who doesn't brush their teeth?

A lot of people don't, though.

I mean, you can smell it.

What do you think about all the veneers that we see nowadays?

I don't really have an issue with it, but some of them just look unnatural.

They look like porcelain grills.

Back in the 90s, they used to have gold grills like Wu-Tang and different artists used to get the gold grills.

But now it's like porcelain, chicklet grills.

People had these big old teeth in their mouth.

Okay, well, this is my uninsured dental story.

I hope you enjoy.

I went to the dentist, not the dentist's office, but to the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Dentistry,

urgent care clinic.

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