Teeth Check!
This is going to be a mouthful.
Do you know what sucks about the beginning of a new year? You suddenly remember all the appointments you didn’t make the year before. Like, I didn’t go to the dentist last year! I was brushing my teeth this morning when I realized that. But then I thought to myself…I haven’t had a single cavity! Despite more than 30 years of chomping on candy and indulging in chocolate cake and Diet Coke, not a single cavity!
Of course, my niece humbled me a little bit. She snarled, “Martha, your teeth are so yellow! You really need to brush more!” And I swear, after that, I didn’t even want to do a full teeth smile for the rest of the day. So I thought I’d do one of those unintentionally seductive, creepy, or fake close-mouthed smiles. Like this. *Puts lips together, curves them halfway upward, eyes three-quarters of the way open* I’m not really sure how that came across to people. But it didn’t matter as long as NO ONE could see my yellow teeth.
But you know what? I’ve been told I have a nice smile. A dental student I talked to on a dating site confirmed it. He said, “I love your gigantic front central incisors.” I didn’t know what to say to that. I mean, what do you say to that? Thank you? Needless to say, he didn’t get a date after that. He had nice teeth, though! Maybe I should have let him be my dentist. Like, “Why, thank you…
