![]() ![]() This one misstep plunged her into a four-year ordeal of painful procedures, torturous surgeries, not-to-mention a perpetually changing appearance at a time when every kid is having a crisis of confidence. Then, while horsing around with her friends, she fell, and knocked out her two front teeth. In sixth grade Tanglemeier got braces to fix a run-of-the-mill overbite. The author tells of her own particular journey of adolescent woe which came in the form of a seemingly endless tangle of dentists, endontists, periodontists, orthodonists, with their promises to perfect her not-so pearly whites. ![]() Graphic Novelist Raina Talgemeier knows this all too well she is the Odysseus of modern dentistry. Poet Ogden Nash said, "Some tortures are physical/And some are mental,/But the one that is both/Is dental." ![]()
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