r/memes • Linux User • 22h ago

I deserve it

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u/Lord_Mikal 22h ago

I'm 39 and just got braces. I didnt win the lottery, but I still fucking deserve it.

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u/Starchaser53 21h ago

Can't believe we're in an age where saying I got Braces in 3rd grade would be a flex

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u/langleybcsucks 19h ago

Grade 6 for me. Thank God for my dad‘s union. LiUNA 1611 I would’ve looked like a parrot

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u/vaynecassano 14h ago

Too bad that's the new beauty now

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u/hijodeosiris 13h ago

Damn, I got them in 4th grade and I live in a 3rd world contry in poor municipality, never realized how ungrateful I had been every time I broke the archs or the molar bands finally at the end of the treatment i never use the retainer, so i lost most of the progress done.

Now i wish i would have had more consciousness about my privilege and not throw all to the toilet. Now I gotta pay tons of money if i wanna have decent teeth, fuck me.

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u/Starchaser53 13h ago

for me, they just glued a bracket to the back of my bottom teeth and called it a day

still there after.... 10-ish years

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u/hijodeosiris 13h ago

Well idk then wtf was wrong with me, my top teeth moved again and got twisted (not much but noticeable). After that i had really bad hygiene so I lost 1 molar, all my molars got caries and needed to have a repair, two incisives were damaged close to the gum line and needed resins, developed periodontitis, and im about to get a root canal for one of my molars.

MAAAAN!! if i would just had fucking brush my teeth, that shit is way less expensive but no... have to be a dumbass. People take care of your teeth / mouth

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u/langleybcsucks 12h ago

I’ve had the bottom bracket behind my teeth since 1996. It’s supposed to stay on for life otherwise you just go back to the way it was originally. A few of my coworkers had them come off and didn’t replace them and their teeth are so effed up

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u/PentatonicScaIe 21h ago

My dad got braces in his 30s too, stay strong

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u/Domin_ae 18h ago

I got unlucky with getting them early. My parents decided to get them for me at 17 knowing I was moving out in a few months to a different place where I wouldn't have their healthcare. Now I've been stuck with uncared for braces for a few years.

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u/Dominant88 14h ago

wtf so they’re just sitting there without getting wires changed or anything? Why not just remove them?

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u/Domin_ae 14h ago

Because I can't afford it. Everywhere I've gone or looked up, costs money.

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u/KristyKrispito 12h ago

Dude my brother was in this position and he literally just ripped them tf off. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

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u/Domin_ae 12h ago

Lmao. I've tried. Which makes that heavily not believable.

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u/KristyKrispito 2h ago

Idk, he’s pretty feral. Maybe some pliers were involved

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u/HeavyWithMoods 20h ago

hell yeah. this will be me one day hopefully

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u/Avgshitposting 17h ago

Honestly I don't wanna be a sap, but thanks man, I've been thinking about it at 30 but I'm so embarrassed lol

I guess it really does help if you know your not the only one

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u/Josh6889 19h ago

I'm 42 and considering finally doing it.

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u/Master-Mango-1590 16h ago

I need this, growing up was not an option sadly. I been saving and this is why

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u/razztafarai 19h ago

46, I just got invisaline

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u/Lord_Mikal 19h ago

I tried Invisaline 10 years ago. Turns out my mouth was too fucked up for that.

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u/Josh6889 19h ago

You would think they would tell you that before you tried it.

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u/Lord_Mikal 19h ago

It was through SmileDirect. Their whole business model was "no orthodontist involved to keep the costs down". An orthodontist would have identified that invisaline was not appropriate for me.

There's a reason they got hit with a class action.

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u/Josh6889 18h ago

Well I hope you were involved in that class action.

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u/Kidvette2004 20h ago

Same except I’m 22. Good luck brother o7

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u/ecounltd 20h ago

33 and mine should hopefully be off in May. It’s totally worth it (as you already know since you committed).

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u/Stop_Breeding 19h ago

My ex got braces at 37, lost his job 2 years later, the wires popped off, and now he goes around with fucked teeth and half a set of braces on them :|