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I always considered myself lucky, a winner in at least one, slim silo of the genetic lottery. While all my friends spent middle school picking out contrast color rubber bands as the consolation prize for two years of braces, my molar-to-molar smile was close enough to perfect that I skipped the orthodontist.
Until I was 37.
I found myself routinely grinning into the mirror, taking note. Was my bottom left canine suddenly making a break for some invisible finish line outside my mouth? Had a premolar decided to lie down on its side while its neighbors huddled inward, as if my mouth had decided to clench into a fist? My dentist told me I had crowding and suggested Invisalign. I went for a consultation. Three years later, five months into the new, publicly masked Covid world, I bit the proverbial bullet in the form of clear plastic aligners to be worn 22 hours a day.