Wen|An Ning
I have been debating whether to fill the gap between the teeth next to the side incisors for the sake of beauty. When I went to the dentist’s office for consultation, the female doctor was rushing off work, pointed out the pros and cons, and persuaded me to inquire more and make a decision after thinking about it.
That gap between teeth is born. When I was a child, adults said I was blessed because I could save money, and I could indeed put a coin upright between my teeth. But when I grew up, I didn’t see myself becoming a nouveau riche, but only received a salary and lived the life of ordinary people. Recently, because I was going to the TV station to shoot a video, I suddenly remembered the last Spring Festival party. They invited me to be a guest. After the show was broadcast, a friend joked that you are very photogenic, the only disadvantage is that the gap between your teeth is a bit big. Only then did I notice this flaw, and I was debating whether to make it up or not. When I searched on Baidu, some people said that the gap between the teeth is a symbol of “losing money”, which is completely opposite to the views of the villagers when I was a child. I couldn’t help laughing.
The clinic is full of people, some children come to fill caries, and some old people get dentures. In addition to the indecent gap between my teeth, I was born with good teeth. I have never worried about my teeth. Naturally, I have never been in or out of a dentist’s office. When I came in, I understood why dentistry is a lucrative profession, because a tooth is too much. Expensive. The cost of planting a denture is 10,000 to 20,000 yuan. Even if a gap between teeth is filled like mine, the cheapest material is 400 yuan. In this way, protecting teeth is equivalent to saving a huge sum of money. Thinking that the 32 teeth in my mouth are worth 640,000 yuan, I can probably buy a room. Thinking about it this way, and looking at the mouths of the people around you, you can’t help but feel that there is a large deposit slip hidden in it, or that there is a small and exquisite apartment.
A black-faced uncle who was not well-dressed and whose belts were not buckled came over with a thick stack of advertisements. He said that he went to all the dental clinics in Hohhot and paid the cost of each clinic. All asked. He also enthusiastically wanted to add me on WeChat, saying that he would share with me the information he had collected. He was in a terrible condition, with a mouth full of hardly a single good looking tooth, and every one of them was wide. My teeth are almost perfect by comparison. I suddenly remembered a time when I met a female colleague on campus. When she saw me grinning, she immediately looked envious: Oh, your teeth are so beautiful and neat! I never paid attention to my teeth at that time, and my colleagues probably would not have thought that soon, I would be troubled and tangled about a thin gap between the teeth.
Fortunately, the female doctor was in a hurry to get off work and didn’t do it for me. After I came back, I searched for a lot of information on the Internet and learned that this method was made up. Teeth can easily fall out. I also saw a man on the Internet who had his teeth filled in the clinic I consulted, but it fell out within a year, but the clinic is not responsible for this, because the customer has been informed in advance that they cannot eat hard things. Thinking of filling the gap between the teeth in the future, it looks beautiful, but because of this, I can no longer chew on the bones, and I have to be careful when I eat and brush my teeth. What’s worse, maybe one day when I eat, the filling material will fall off and fall into my stomach…
Forget it, just keep the natural color, laugh when it’s time to grin, whatever. Does he have gaps in his teeth. I suddenly remembered that on the way back from the dentist’s office, I answered a call from a friend. He said he was very anxious every day and didn’t know what to do. He lacked nothing, all the fame and fortune. However, he was never happy and was swept up in an endless stream of meetings, documents, events, business trips and relationships every day. As a result, his body is always unwell, high blood pressure, cervical spondylosis, rapid heart rate, insomnia, so that when there is activity, he needs to take sleeping pills to get a short sleep.
I listened to him sighing constantly on the phone, like a dead leaf swaying in the wind in autumn, and I didn’t know what to say. He lost the purest joy of being a human being, and was swept up in a roller coaster-like life that would never stop. Compared to him, my troubles between my teeth are hardly worth mentioning.
Thinking about it like this, I put my teeth entanglement behind me and continue my normal life, getting up to change the sheets and quilts, tidy up the bedroom, and put the dirty clothes into the washing machine. While drinking water, I listened to the intermittent piano sound coming from the next door.
At dusk, the heavy rain arrived with the rumble of thunder, washing away the dust of the day. Slow fire for two hours, boil the pork ribs and radish soup in the casserole. After the pork ribs are cooked, put them in a bowl. While watching the daughter nibble, put the vermicelli into the soup until the strong aroma is soaked in, red tomatoes, green spinach, white The radishes tumbled together in the pot, and the door of one’s appetite slammed open.
When the noodles were cooked, I looked out the window, the rain was getting heavier. Those troubles in my life that once haunted me, at this moment, all disappeared in the vast rain and fog.