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My terrible teeth are downing my confidence?

Posted on May 5, 2011

Hello! Firstly, just want to say thanks for reading this! This is something that is a big problem and is eating into my life.

I am a 15year old girl and I have seriously bad front teeth. The rest of my teeth are straight as pins it is just my two front teeth have a massive gap and stick out! And when I say stick out I mean they stick out like 5 millimeters or something.

Anyway, I am getting braces in febuary but for the time being, my teeth are causing me to feel ugly but most of all scared of approaching/meeting people because I worry all they can see when they see me is my terrible teeth. :( I am going somewhere in a few weeks where I will be meeting a lot of new people and I am so scared. :(

So basically, my question is: How can I stop my bad teeth from making me unlike my usual confident, friendly self? And also, what do you think when you see someone with bad teeth?

Thank you so much for your time. x

does this sound stalkerish?

Posted on May 4, 2011

On Friday, October 16, 2009, I developed the biggest crush I’ve ever had for someone, on a boy I know nothing about. I had myself convinced that he liked me too. It absolutely made my day every time he said “hi” to me. Whenever I passed him in the hall my heart started pounding, and I got butterflies. I tried to slip out a “hi” without sounding overly enthusiastic. I went out of my way to walk by Mr. Worthen’s room in N hall, which is where he sat at lunch, hoping he might notice me. On Tuesday, January 5, 2010, I saw him holding hands with a girl. My jaw dropped, my heart broke, my stomach sank, and I tried the hardest I ever have to hold back the tears welling up in my eyes. However, they didn’t leave me enough time to get over him, because they broke up a week later.
Everyone knew I liked him, everyone except for him. Eventually, the word got around to him. What I believed to be the best day of my life was the day that he gave me his phone number and told me to call him. I tried to call him a few times, but he didn’t answer, and then claimed that he was busy. Then I realized that I wasted almost my whole freshman year liking a complete and total stranger. I realized that if I would’ve told him I liked him from the beginning, instead of waiting six months, I would’ve discovered sooner that I had no interest in this boy who made me fanatical. I would’ve known sooner that he always would’ve blown me off, and that he wasn’t worth the time and energy I put into pursuing him. I could’ve saved myself a lot of tears and embarrassment too.
However, he provided me with six of the happiest months of my life. I never got tired of scribbling Missy + Matt in my notebook. In my opinion, the very best feeling in the world is those butterflies that make you feel like you’re going to vomit, faint, and fly all at the same time. Every time I saw his smile with the prominent gap in between his two front teeth and rectangular-framed black glasses, on his precisely chiseled face, I couldn’t help myself from smiling a huge, incredibly dorky smile. It was a smile that probably made him wonder if there was something wrong with me.
I often wonder why I loved a complete stranger for six months. There had to be a reason, a piece of the puzzle that will create the bigger picture. Maybe I’m over analyzing the whole situation, but I know it will all make sense in the end. I’m sure he had no intention at all to hurt me. There are a lot of things he doesn’t know. I’m sure he didn’t know what a big part of my life he was, when I was probably such a miniscule part of his. He’ll never know that I memorized the date that I started liking him. He’ll never know that he made the most outgoing girl, who isn’t afraid to talk to anybody, tongue-tied and shy. He’ll never know that he was the biggest crush I’ve ever had, and a huge part of my freshman year. He’ll never know that I will never, ever forget him, and in five years he will have no recollection of me. Oh, if he only knew...

and no its not from a book, i wrote it for english class:)

I want my teeth whitening but i have veneers, please help.?

Posted on May 2, 2011

My two front teeth have veneers and i want a whitening what do i have to do?

I got too much fluoride treatment as a baby, now my teeth are blotchy?

Posted on April 30, 2011

I got that fluoride treatment you get as a baby but my mom wasn't exact with it now I've had blotchy spots on my teeth ever since even though I ahve my adult teeth. The main problem is my two front teeth. I hate my teeth, they aren't straight enough but I figure if i can't get braces then at least whiten them i guess. If I used one of those at home whitening kits like from crest or rembrandt would they work or make my teeth more blotchy? Any suggestions? A trip to the dentist isn't an option now.

Do I sound exotic looking? Good enough to model?

Posted on April 28, 2011

I don't have a picture but I'll give a basic idea. I was wondering if my basic features were enough to model. I'm 15, 5'8" ft, 36C-24-36, 145 pounds (I'm a fitness guru so I have abs and muscule tone and stuff). My hair is straight platinum blonde (but it's thick and not coarse) and it's down past my waist. My eyes are blue, almond shaped but my eyelids come over a bit in the inner corners (Almost like a small trace of an Asian eye). My eyebrows are like Angelina Jolie's. My lips are would probably be described as red more than a pink or a rose color, medium-fuller and they have an arch on the top lip. I have an oval face shape and high cheekbones. My teeth are more or less straight except for a gap in the middle of my two front teeth. I'm extremely dark skinned right now (I'm Cherokee-Italian) and a lot of people ask me if I'm Latino, Indian or black. Are my features good enough to model? Should I dye my hair? (the platinum blonde with dark skin isn't a common sight). Please help me.
Well I really want to try out for Miss Teen USA but a lot people (in a sympathetic voice) tell me that I'm basically too "foreign-looking" or "exotic" to fit the idea of Miss Teen USA. So that's why I was wondering.
Well I already graduated high school and I don't want to go to college yet.
Also the way my hair color looks against my skin is kinda blending. It's not like a really harsh look. I used to have red hair and people said that suited me really well.
My hair variates between platinum blonde and red (I know it's weird sounding but in the summer, it will turn very bright and in the winter, it takes on a reddish hue)

gap teeth…?

Posted on April 26, 2011

i have a gap between my two front teeth and its really embarrassing. Its pretty big, but not huge. I can't get braces yet because i haven't lost all my teeth so what can i do to hide it for now. Also (i know this part is a little shallow...) but do you find it really unnattractive when you see people with gaps inbetween there teeth, and guys would that stop you from going out with someone/

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