Day 50!

And I'm going to use it to talk more about my teeth.

This is called a Rapid Palatal Expander.

I'll summarize. This orthodontic appliance is used to widen your top jaw by separating the plates on the roof of your mouth. You do so by inserting the long, metal part on the edge of the key (the blue thing) into holes in the very middle of the appliance. If you want, you can see how it works in that link. Enjoy the nightmares.

That piece of metal was in my mouth from 8th to 11th grade. My orthodontist, I kid you not, put it in upside down, and he fucked with my mouth every six weeks for the next three years and never corrected his mistake. My tongue is always pushing against the inside of my teeth, which is why it's important for me to wear my retainer. It would be pretty easy for me to fuck up my teeth again.

It also gave me a gap about the size of a centimeter between my front teeth. And you know how understanding 8th grade girls are of that kind of thing. Freaking braces.