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Imagine having two curved wires in your mouth. And these wires want to hold a very specific shape. Now imagine that they can't hold this shape without some difficulty, because they're attached to brackets, which are glued directly to your teeth, which are holding a very different shape. So, these wires are slowly pulling your teeth with them. Now, when a force is applied to a tooth, the bone material around it starts to dissolve so that the tooth can move. In other words, it becomes loose. Also, imagine that you can't close your teeth without the top teeth coming down on the bottom brackets, so they put a metal device on your upper right molar called a 'bite heightener', which is the size of a dime with a hole punched through it, and that's all you can chew with at the moment, so you've been closing your back teeth on a piece of solid metal for the past two days. Remember that the teeth are still loose and being pulled over with the wire, so chewing anything, let alone with that small area, is difficult. Man has invented a portable torture device, and he calls it simply... "Braces".

This must explain why I'm in so much teamfragging pain right now.