The Wrong Kind Of Crown: Embracing My Smile

The Wrong Kind Of Crown: Embracing My Smile The Wrong Kind Of Crown  

In this episode of the 'Inner Workings of the Not So Genius Mind,' host Amanda McCombs shares her journey of self-care and dental health. She discusses her struggles with weak enamel, TMJ pain, and dental procedures, and emphasizes the importance of oral health. Amanda talks about her recent dental visit to Copper Creek Dental and how it alleviated her long-standing dental issues. She reflects on her newfound confidence in her smile, the emotional relief from not needing braces, and advises listeners on the significance of taking care of their teeth. Amanda concludes with light-hearted commentary and a reminder to prioritize self-care.  

00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:26 Current Life Updates

00:51 Dental Health Struggles

01:54 Finding the Right Dentist

02:26 Dental Treatment Plan

06:48 Final Thoughts on Dental Health

08:41 Conclusion and Farewell

Episode Transcript

(00:04):
Hello, everyone, and welcome to theinner workings of the not so genius mind.
I'm your host, Amanda McCombs,and I mean, if you're on YouTube,
I'm wearing the same thing.
I'm recording a few different thingsright now, okay, so don't judge me.
Um,

(00:26):
man.
Life.
What's life like right now?
Um, getting ready for Mrs.
Utah, America, competing is Mrs. Daybreak.
I am sneaking in little interviews.
So if you are listeningto this, congratulations.

(00:47):
It's not a meet the queenepisode, it's just me.
Um, I just wanted to talk a minuteabout some of the self care things that
I have really had to push through andreally like advocate for myself for.
I've had a lot of problems with my teeth.

(01:10):
I have weak enamel and, um, Ihad really bad pain in my jaw.
Like.
I don't know, if you're lookingon YouTube, maybe I did an
okay job with my contouring.
But this side of my faceis just always swollen.
And it's the same side whereI had my shingles run through.

(01:32):
So like all this andmy jaw and everything.
It's just always inflamed.
Um, my jaw pops, and it drives mecrazy, and thanks to, um, CPTSD, I was
like grinding my teeth in my sleep,and all up here on the top, I couldn't
feel my teeth until just barely.

(01:55):
Um, and I needed some dental work done,and I just recently found a dentist.
It's Copper Creek Dental here in Daybreak,and they've been here, um, It was nice.
I was talking to Dr. Staley, the guythat did my dental work, and he has
been in Daybreak since it opened.

(02:16):
So he just talked about how nice itwas to watch the community grow around
the building because they're rightin the middle of Daybreak, right?
Downtown.
Or where like the old downtownwill still be, I guess.
Um, and I talked about a lot of thegoals that I had that I wanted because
it had been a little while since I'dbeen to the dentist because I just

(02:36):
kept getting sick and I also justkind of felt like my dentist wasn't
Um, I had some spots in my teeththat were bothering me and, um, they
weren't doing anything about it.
They were just like, oh,that would just be cosmetic.
And I'm like, but that's notnormal cosmetic discoloration.

(02:58):
Like, that's something weird.
And it turns out I had somefillings that had failed and
they, it was just going anyway.
Um, so like I made a planand I talked about how
with this TMJ pain and my teeth grinding,like my teeth are a little crooked.

(03:22):
I had a retainer down there on the bottom.
One of those like glue in things thatI got 20, over 20 years ago, not even
kidding, 20 years ago, I got that thingglued in my mouth, probably 25 years ago.
And, um, It always bothered me and allthe dental offices I would go to were

(03:45):
just like you would just have to go toan orthodontist and I wanted to focus on
my kid's teeth and all this other stuff.
Anyway, so I made a plan of attackwith this dentist to not only
like get my mouth feeling better.

(04:06):
And healthy, but also fix my smile and Ijust barely finished doing all the work.
The last bit of work I had to dowas I got a couple crowns down
here on the bottom and I got makingjokes that I was going in to.
I was getting a couple crowns today,but it's not the, it's not going to be

(04:28):
a sparkly kind that goes on my head.
It's the kind that goes in mymouth and anyway, making that joke
publicly now, it was pretty funny.
I was really upset.
I wanted to go down.
It was actually during Mrs. World andI had some friends competing for Mrs.
World and getting my mouth takencare of was a lot more important.

(04:50):
Um.
But I had to, like, I had enough workthat needed to be done and such a
fear of going to the dentist that,like, I had really put it off, and
I needed to get it taken care of.
And before I could even, like, makethe forms to start straightening out
my teeth, and remove the metal bar inthe bottom, I had to take care of all

(05:14):
the cavities that I had cut, becauseI wasn't taking care of my teeth.
And I already had weak enamel.
So long story short, um, he finishedall the dental work and I went to talk
to him about my bite and the TMJ pain,because it locks up, I have permanent

(05:35):
nerve damage, like in my face andin my neck and down in my shoulder.
And if this.
Walks up in my jaw.
It like tenses all down in my neck.
It's awful.
It's some of the worst, worstawful headache pain I have had.
Um, and so finally he and I were talkingand I thought he was going to fit me

(05:58):
with a Bite guard, not a bite guardwith Invisalign things because I had
like my teeth overlap here And I wastalking about all these problems that
I had with my teeth and he stopped meand he goes You have a beautiful smile.
You don't have anythingthat's wrong with your smile

(06:20):
let's just get you fitted with abite guard and a retainer for the
bottom and that'll take care ofthat because really it's My teeth
aren't going to be shifting anymore.
If I get that bite guard in my mouth,then hopefully that'll help with all this
awful pain that I've been having, like.

(06:41):
When he told me that I didn't need braces,I was just kind of, I was crying, and I'm
trying really hard to not cry right now.
Um, because for a long time, I justfelt like I had a lot of things with
my mouth that needed to be fixed, andI really didn't like to smile as much
because, like, I don't like the color ofmy teeth, or like, they're not straight,

(07:04):
and whatever, but do you know what?
Um,
it's starting to go down, thisawful knot in my face, and
maybe I'll be smiling more,because A dentist says that I have
a beautiful smile and I really,

(07:29):
I don't need braces again.
Like, I've been so self conscious about somany things for such a long time and like,
now my mouth is all healthy and I have abite guard and I'm nice and pretty before
bed with my, this giant thing in my mouth.

(07:49):
All night long.
Ugh.
And then my poor little eight yearold Addie comes in and she's like,
Mom, I didn't know you had a retainer.
And I'm like, well, it's brandnew, so I didn't know either.
Anyway, um, don't put offtaking care of your teeth.
I still have a lot of health issuesthat I'm facing, but that's like,

(08:18):
I didn't realize how much of a literaland figurative headache this has all been.
Um, and I'm thankful I have timenow that I can like maybe do
a little bit of whitening if Iwant to, but really just like,
maybe I'll just practice smiling more.

(08:40):
That was really cheesy.
You don't have to laugh.
All right, I'm out of here.
Thank you for listeningto the inner workings.
Of the not so genius mind, if youhave made it this far, friends.
And others, whoever the others are.
I still don't know whoyou are, if you're here.
If you're new, what theheck are you doing here?
And maybe you should stay.

(09:02):
Um, I guess that's it for me.
Take care of yourselves.
It's a crazy world out there.