The Wrong Kind Of Crown: Embracing My Smile

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to the
inner workings of the not so genius mind.

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I'm your host, Amanda McCombs,
and I mean, if you're on YouTube,

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I'm wearing the same thing.

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I'm recording a few different things
right now, okay, so don't judge me.

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Um,

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man.

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Life.

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What's life like right now?

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Um, getting ready for Mrs.

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Utah, America, competing is Mrs. Daybreak.

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I am sneaking in little interviews.

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So if you are listening
to this, congratulations.

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It's not a meet the queen
episode, it's just me.

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Um, I just wanted to talk a minute
about some of the self care things that

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I have really had to push through and
really like advocate for myself for.

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I've had a lot of problems with my teeth.

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I have weak enamel and, um, I
had really bad pain in my jaw.

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Like.

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I don't know, if you're looking
on YouTube, maybe I did an

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okay job with my contouring.

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But this side of my face
is just always swollen.

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And it's the same side where
I had my shingles run through.

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So like all this and
my jaw and everything.

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It's just always inflamed.

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Um, my jaw pops, and it drives me
crazy, and thanks to, um, CPTSD, I was

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like grinding my teeth in my sleep,
and all up here on the top, I couldn't

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feel my teeth until just barely.

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Um, and I needed some dental work done,
and I just recently found a dentist.

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It's Copper Creek Dental here in Daybreak,
and they've been here, um, It was nice.

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I was talking to Dr. Staley, the guy
that did my dental work, and he has

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been in Daybreak since it opened.

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So he just talked about how nice it
was to watch the community grow around

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the building because they're right
in the middle of Daybreak, right?

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Downtown.

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Or where like the old downtown
will still be, I guess.

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Um, and I talked about a lot of the
goals that I had that I wanted because

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it had been a little while since I'd
been to the dentist because I just

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kept getting sick and I also just
kind of felt like my dentist wasn't

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Um, I had some spots in my teeth
that were bothering me and, um, they

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weren't doing anything about it.

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They were just like, oh,
that would just be cosmetic.

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And I'm like, but that's not
normal cosmetic discoloration.

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Like, that's something weird.

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And it turns out I had some
fillings that had failed and

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they, it was just going anyway.

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Um, so like I made a plan
and I talked about how

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with this TMJ pain and my teeth grinding,
like my teeth are a little crooked.

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I had a retainer down there on the bottom.

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One of those like glue in things that
I got 20, over 20 years ago, not even

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kidding, 20 years ago, I got that thing
glued in my mouth, probably 25 years ago.

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And, um, It always bothered me and all
the dental offices I would go to were

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just like you would just have to go to
an orthodontist and I wanted to focus on

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my kid's teeth and all this other stuff.

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Anyway, so I made a plan of attack
with this dentist to not only

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like get my mouth feeling better.

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And healthy, but also fix my smile and I
just barely finished doing all the work.

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The last bit of work I had to do
was I got a couple crowns down

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here on the bottom and I got making
jokes that I was going in to.

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I was getting a couple crowns today,
but it's not the, it's not going to be

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a sparkly kind that goes on my head.

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It's the kind that goes in my
mouth and anyway, making that joke

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publicly now, it was pretty funny.

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I was really upset.

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I wanted to go down.

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It was actually during Mrs. World and
I had some friends competing for Mrs.

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World and getting my mouth taken
care of was a lot more important.

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Um.

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But I had to, like, I had enough work
that needed to be done and such a

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fear of going to the dentist that,
like, I had really put it off, and

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I needed to get it taken care of.

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And before I could even, like, make
the forms to start straightening out

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my teeth, and remove the metal bar in
the bottom, I had to take care of all

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the cavities that I had cut, because
I wasn't taking care of my teeth.

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And I already had weak enamel.

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So long story short, um, he finished
all the dental work and I went to talk

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to him about my bite and the TMJ pain,
because it locks up, I have permanent

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nerve damage, like in my face and
in my neck and down in my shoulder.

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And if this.

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Walks up in my jaw.

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It like tenses all down in my neck.

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It's awful.

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It's some of the worst, worst
awful headache pain I have had.

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Um, and so finally he and I were talking
and I thought he was going to fit me

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with a Bite guard, not a bite guard
with Invisalign things because I had

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like my teeth overlap here And I was
talking about all these problems that

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I had with my teeth and he stopped me
and he goes You have a beautiful smile.

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You don't have anything
that's wrong with your smile

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let's just get you fitted with a
bite guard and a retainer for the

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bottom and that'll take care of
that because really it's My teeth

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aren't going to be shifting anymore.

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If I get that bite guard in my mouth,
then hopefully that'll help with all this

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awful pain that I've been having, like.

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When he told me that I didn't need braces,
I was just kind of, I was crying, and I'm

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trying really hard to not cry right now.

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Um, because for a long time, I just
felt like I had a lot of things with

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my mouth that needed to be fixed, and
I really didn't like to smile as much

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because, like, I don't like the color of
my teeth, or like, they're not straight,

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and whatever, but do you know what?

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Um,

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it's starting to go down, this
awful knot in my face, and

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maybe I'll be smiling more,
because A dentist says that I have

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a beautiful smile and I really,

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I don't need braces again.

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Like, I've been so self conscious about so
many things for such a long time and like,

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now my mouth is all healthy and I have a
bite guard and I'm nice and pretty before

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bed with my, this giant thing in my mouth.

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All night long.

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Ugh.

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And then my poor little eight year
old Addie comes in and she's like,

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Mom, I didn't know you had a retainer.

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And I'm like, well, it's brand
new, so I didn't know either.

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Anyway, um, don't put off
taking care of your teeth.

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I still have a lot of health issues
that I'm facing, but that's like,

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I didn't realize how much of a literal
and figurative headache this has all been.

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Um, and I'm thankful I have time
now that I can like maybe do

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a little bit of whitening if I
want to, but really just like,

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maybe I'll just practice smiling more.

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That was really cheesy.

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You don't have to laugh.

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All right, I'm out of here.

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Thank you for listening
to the inner workings.

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Of the not so genius mind, if you
have made it this far, friends.

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And others, whoever the others are.

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I still don't know who
you are, if you're here.

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If you're new, what the
heck are you doing here?

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And maybe you should stay.

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Um, I guess that's it for me.

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Take care of yourselves.

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It's a crazy world out there.