I’ve talked about the main benefits, but these are my real thoughts… I never had a problem with my original teeth actually, and made an effort to keep them in pretty good condition, especially in my late 20s and early 30s 🦷🪥 this is where I realized a lot of things I took for granted started to catch up to me in terms of dental health. I’ve had a bunch of fillings (8 to be exact), they were also very sensitive towards the gumline (which my dentist told me was also starting to recede), making them develop cavities at the gumline, so I had them filled there too. Apart from that, aesthetically, they were fine to me. So when I went to Korea to learn more about beauty treatments & services, I didn’t realize what the specific steps were until I was in the chair doing it! Although dental lamination is a ‘minimal prep’ procedure (which is much better than ordinary veneers where a majority of your teeth is grinded away), it was still a permanent change. Unlike braces (which I had in my teens), invisalign, or whitening, with services like those, you have time to mentally and physically adjust to the changes. But with veneers or dental lamination, it’s performed so quickly that I didn’t have time to really process any changes, and it was done. This is what I think led to this prolonged period of ‘acceptance’ of my new look. Versus, people who have long been unhappy with their teeth, or have already thought through extensively fixing their teeth. My brain felt like it didn’t have time to process–it knew how ‘you’ looked your whole life, and suddenly overnight it’s different. Imagine the shock. So I felt quite conflicted the weeks after it, and the only way I can explain it was that I didn’t mentally prepare to say goodbye to my previous teeth, smile, look. With any change, there is almost like a mourning process. And I was thinking about how the features and traits given to us are what ties us to our heritage, our family and ancestors. It’s what makes us uniquely “us”, and presents our unique beauty to the world. Also something to highlight is that this is a permanent treatment and… [caption continued in comments]