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00:00I'm in full panic mode, but I'm trying so hard to keep calm because I'm like, no way, no way.

00:08Look, I'm getting a gap. Holy crap, this thing is moving my teeth. This is officially two weeks.

00:19First week, pain, pain, pain, pain, worst of my life. Second week, we went on vacation,

00:23better every single day. Talking with a gap when you didn't have one before is so bizarre.

00:28Feeling wind through that spot, saying fuzz, all of like my voice lessons and like singing and

00:38anything, it just feels so weird. Eating feels weird, talking feels weird, singing feels weird.

00:43Breathing feels great because I am opening the heck up. Money was 100% the issue and why it took

00:51me till 33 to get braces, which really sucks. But everyone wants to know why she wants a tooth gap.

00:57It is not to close the gap. It actually gave me the gap. It is to expand my upper palate so that

01:03it matches the bottom. My upper palate was V-shaped instead of U. It was extremely crowded. So you're

01:12splitting that and just creating space. And then the braces and a power chain will eventually

01:18close the gap back up so that I have not only straight teeth, but on the correct structure.

01:23She gives us a more detailed look into the difference this procedure is making.

01:27Here is my mouth before. Clearly, I ain't got nothing in there. Look at the difference in

01:34purely just shape. It was very V and now it's so beautifully rounded. Here we have installation.

01:42See how that middle bar has like those dot, dot, dot? When you turn it, the next turn that bar will have

01:48flat, like no holes. The next turn has one hole. The next turn is flat so that you know you're like

01:55keeping track of the turns. I think so. I didn't used to have prominent cheekbones like this. It's

02:00definitely giving me more symmetry. Typically, it just inevitably kind of makes you look better.

02:06But 21 weeks into the treatment, disaster strikes. And she's forced to face her worst fear.

02:17Uh-oh. Uh-oh.

02:21It was terrifying in the moment because that is something I've always been afraid of and never

02:25had it. But here is how I got out of it. This socket has come and it's stuck like here. So

02:30basically, you need to, oh, shove that back in. That first time, an hour later, I was standing at

02:36the dentist ready for them to do it for me and it fixed itself. It has happened three times since

02:42and every time I've been able to release it quicker. Warm compress. Get two washcloths. Hot.

02:47As hot as you can handle on your skin. Gently massage five to ten minutes and then you're going to

02:52go to the bathroom. You're going to gag yourself with your toothbrush. Tried and true. It worked so

02:57quickly. The key is really loosening up these muscles under here that are locked so that you can

03:02pop it back in.