Orthodontics

My wife showed me her albums, in which she collects tens of old photos taken in her school days. She was young, needless to say, but she was not only immature. She was ugly.

We used to have a girl who was always a centre of our concern, we have one or two very pretty girls in a class. She was not a kind of person. She was as if always putting a mouth piece in her mouth. She had a couple of irregular teeth, including canines at both sides of her inside lips. She looked in short a gorilla or rather an oran ootang.

But now her mouth is good shape, her front teeth are all tidily arranged. What's happened?

I asked her whether she corrected her teeth, and she said yes. She said it took one year to correct the teeth. Her teeth are now well arranged with the exception of her back four teeth, all are coated in a metal, not a plastic enamel. She said she couldn't afford for them all.

From the third party position, I think she is a fairly pretty woman. We met one another in our mid forties. I wouldn't start talking to her if she had had bad teeth.

Orthodontics is said to be the very first step of so-called cosmetic surgery. Making a nose good shape and upper eyelids two folded are the next step. Chiseling bones of jaws, etc are the third step.

Her eyelids were unfolded, then I asked whether she had her eyelids cosmetic surgery, she said, her eyelids got naturally two folded as she grew up.

We used to have a TV programme called ' Beauty coliseum ' One woman was born to be devastatingly ugly turned to an extremely pretty woman after spending 60,000 US dollars experimentally for a TV project. Of course her sponsors were well known cosmetic surgeons.

She has been always very generous and I wondered a pretty woman is often hubristic, and it had been my question why she was not so.

Probably a woman's appearances and characters not related, but I think I found a very good one from the bottom of my heart.

Aside from that, I asked her when she went to dentist to correct her teeth. Then she replied. 'It was when Yuki was 3 year old, so it was 16 years ago. She is now 48 so she went to dentist at age 32. I asked her again. 'Did your life change after you corrected your teeth?' 'Yes, to the bad phase.' She divorced at age 36. Is she referring to her divorce? I guessed so.

We are in love for 2 year and 3 months. I couldn't say she is lucky because we had love. Because certainly we are in love but that does not guarantee her rest of life. We are not legally wife and husband. We are merely cohabitants.

It is hard to get married to a woman. Because it involves economic matter.

She spent 30 to 50 US dollars each time she visited dental office. It was one time in a week and it lasted 1 year. She must have spent 2,000 to 2,500 US dollars.

I want her to change her metal covered back teeth to ceramics. It must cost $2,800. A piece of ceramic costs $700. I want to spend money for her correction, though I can't marry her.

Her daughter started working last year. She rent her apartment, bought a car. The third big buy was her teeth. She also changed her teeth from metal to ceramics. Useful spend.