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Chapter 11 – Lynn’s first adjustment

Their relationship has grown over the past few weeks. They spent most of their nights either at Peter’s or in Lynn’s place. The Covid restrictions severly limited their weekend activities. So most weekends they cooked together and watched TV. Their outside activities were limited to short walks or bike rides. Nothing exciting, but as a fresh couple they enjoyed being together.

Soon Lynn’s first braces appointment was coming up. As Lynn was very busy during the week, Steve had offered her a weekend appointment. It was Steve’s day off, but he had offered it as friendly gesture.

Peter needed some spare parts for his bike and there was a bike shop near Steve’s office. So they had decided, that Peter would accompany Lynn to her appointment. Of course they also liked the idea of spending some time together.

Lynn had again discovered here race driver gen and the trip was quite enjoyable for Peter. Lynn somehow avoided to get any speeding tickets. Peter thought she most have a natural detection system for speed traps. Soon they arrived near Steve’s office and the bike shop.

After putting on their masks they both went into the shop. Peter loved walking through bike shops. There was always some new bike technology to discover and he could dream of buying a shiny new bike one day. Lynn didn’t share Peter’s liking, but she was loved to see him happy.

During Covid lots of people had discovered cycling so the shop was quite busy. This had led to some shortages of bicycle parts. But, Peter was lucky and bought the parts he needed, brake pads and a chain for his road bike.

After leaving the shop they both took off their masks as a group of teenagers passed by. One of them saw the chain and Lynn’s braces and made a joke about Peter not needing a chain as his girl already had one in her mouth. It was an old and rather lame joke, but Peter didn’t liked he idea of his girlfriend being humiliated by some random teenage boy. He had to fight the urge to hit the teenager with his fist. Lynn saw the anger in Peter face and gave him a look that told him that she would handle the situation.

Lynn walked over to the teenager who had made the joke and looked him straight in the eye, “You know, I am an orthodontist  and you desperately need braces. I wouldn’t make a joke about braces if I were you.”. The boy decided to leave the scene and his group followed him. One of the teenagers gave Lynn an almost invisible thumbs up sign.

Peter looked at Lynn and said, “Wow, you handled that guy really well. I wanted to punch him.”. Lynn said, “I think he will never make a joke about people with braces again. That was a lesson for him. But now let’s go to my appointment.”. Peter thought about having his own braces and being humiliated by strangers. He didn’t like the thought at all.
After this encounter they both went to Steve’s office. Lynn thanked him for the weekend appointment, “Thank you so much, Steve. I am very busy at my office and your offer helps me a lot.”. Steve smiled, “No problem, please come in.”.

Lynn sat in the treatment chair and Steve looked at her mouth. He mumbled something and looked as if he was deliberately rethinking her whole treatment. Finally he said, “The accident did more damage than I expected. I think we should add some rubber bands to your treatment. I hope this will help, but we may need to think about some additional appliances.”. Lynn said, “I was expecting you to say that. Just try the rubber bands and let us hope for some progress.”. Steve added, “And I will also give you a stronger wire, too. We started with a very soft wire. Hopefully the new wire will help your progress too.”.

Peter was instructed to remove Lynn’s archwires while Steve collected new wires from his supply. With her wires removed, Lynn took the opportunity to brush and floss her teeth. Later the new archwires were placed by Steve with Peter’s assistance.

Steve invited Peter to watch the placement of Lynn’s rubber bands. This way Peter would be able to help Lynn with her bands. He also said, “Peter, I know you have a job in IT, but I would hire you as an assistant in a heartbeat. You really have a talent for this.”. Peter looked a little bit puzzled and simply said, “OK, if my job in IT does not work out, I will consider your job offer.”.

Upon leaving Steve’s office a boy approached them. It was the boy who had given Lynn the thumbs up gesture. He looked very shy, but smiled at Lynn revealing a full set of metal braces. He said in a low voice, “Sorry to ambush you, but he does this to me every time. He compares my braces to train tracks or snow chains. I hate it when he does that.”. Lynn said, “No need to apologise. Nobody should have to go through that, just because they wear braces.”.

The boy now looked more confident and asked, “Does he really need braces?”. Lynn now understood why the boy had been waiting for her. He wanted to be sure that his bully also needed braces and she replied, “He definitely needs braces. A rough estimate would be two years with fixed braces including a palatal expander.”. A smile broke out on the boy’s face.

Now the boy said thinking of revenge, “His mother is my guitar teacher. Maybe one day I can lead a conversation towards my braces. And I will accidentally drop the question of whether her son needs braces too. I like this plan.”. The boy was now smiling all over. Lynn tried to steer him in a more sensible direction, “You should talk to him and tell him how you feel. Tell him how much he hurts you. If he understands, then maybe he will stop bullying you.”. The boy said, “Thank you so much. You have made my day. I will try both plans.”. Then he walked away with the happiest face Lynn had seen in a long time.

Back in Lynn’s flat Peter explored her new rubber bands. He even helped her to change them after her first meal with them. Peter said, “I really like the colour of your new rubber bands. Blue has always been my favorite colour. I hope they don’t cause you any pain.”. Lynn replied, “I was expecting to get rubber bands. They will cause a little pain, but nothing to worry about. I am more worried about the stronger wire. I am expecting some serious pain from that.”.

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Chapter 13 – Home office

Peter woke up early the next morning. His jaw was in severe pain. He jumped out of bed and went to the bathroom. In the bathroom he took of his braces and put them into his braces case. This was just a great relief and he looked at his teeth in the mirror. Was the pain really worth it? He could not tell.

Lynn followed him into the bathroom and said, “You did a great job. You were wearing your appliance for 12 hours at a row. It is normal, that you are in pain. We should have started with shorter break in periods.”. Peter nodded and gave her a kiss.

They had breakfast together. As usual they had prepared muesli with a lot of fresh fruit. After that Lynn had to go her office as she was already a little bit late. And she was not completely satisified with Peter’s treatment. She had finally put him into braces, but only removable braces. What she really wanted was him getting fixed braces. She had to work on that part. Peter did not knew it, but he would get fixed braces period.

Peter went home and started working in his home office. The amount of work had gradually decreased due to the current Covid lockdown, but still there was something to be done. After two hours of working he realized that no one would see his braces. So he put them back in.
He took them out for the occasional Skype calls. But kept them in for the rest of his working day. He decided to practice talking with his braces in. So he started to read his E-mails aloud. He had a terrible lisp. He couldn’t remember that his braces as child had caused such a massive lisp. During the day he noticed some minor improvements. But still a long way to go.

Another pain point was saliva. His appliances caused a massive build up of saliva in his mouth. And he constantly had to swallow. Glad he was home alone. Otherwise the constant sound of swallowing would be quite annoying for anyone who had to listen.

He still had to take out his appliances for some time. The pain was killing him otherwise. Aside from that home office was helping him a lot.

Chapter 15 – Bored

Peter was getting used to his removable braces over the next weeks. He was able to get a lot of wear time. And when he told Lynn about his 20 hour wear time she was really impressed. If only she could manage to deal with her rubber bands.

The Covid pandemic continued and Peters workload decreased rapidly. This gave him a lot of free time which in normal days he would spend doing something interesting. But for the Lockdown everything was closed. So Peter got rather bored sitting at home not being able to do anything beside his occasional jogging in the woods.

To fight his boredom he started to visit Lynn in her office during daytime. Lynn was still able to work normally. There were only minor restrictions in place for orthodontists. Like wearing masks and keeping the waiting room as empty as possible.

When he was at Lynn’s office he chatted a lot with Ann the receptionist and her assistant Zara. Ann was a very good looking girl with blond hair and Peter enjoyed talking to her. She still had to wear her retainers after the active phase of her treatment. Those retainers gave her a slight lisp. Peter thought that her lisp sounded cute.

Of course Peter wore his braces. Being in an orthodontist's office, it felt almost normal for him to wear them. And of course it helped that he had to wear a mask all the time. No one really saw his braces. The only thing that was noticeable to an experienced braces wearer was his slight lisp. Although his speech improved over the days and talking to Lynn's staff helped a lot.

While Ann was only twenty years old, Zara was in her mid-thirties. She was married with two children. Zara had been an assistant in the previous owner's office and was very experienced. So when Peter was in the office, she often gave him something to do. He would clean some instruments or handle the deliveries that came into the office. They received all kinds of deliveries like new brackets, wires, headgear and removable appliances from an outside lab.

During these visits, Lynn was always very busy. So Peter only saw her for very short periods of time. Apart from that, they both appreciated his visits. And of course they would meet at Lynn's apartment afterwards.

Chapter 17 – Dinner with Lynn

Peter could hear Lynn coming upstairs. He decided to open the door for her. Immediately after opening the door Lynn almost jumped in Peter’s directed. She started to kiss him intensively. She used her tongue to explore his mouth. Peter liked what she was doing. And he started to explore her mouth with his tongue. He could feel the brackets on her teeth. Soon after that he discovered that playing with her rubber bands was quite enjoyable.

Still playing with her rubber bands he accidentally released one from the hook on her braces. The band hit his tongue and Lynn’s lip. Both started to laugh. Lynn look at him, “You have to put it in again. Just use the same hooks as on the other side.”. She gave him a fresh rubber band from her pocket. Peter took it and without much problems he managed to put the new band on the hooks. Lynn then took another band from her bag and replaced the one the other side too.

After that they kissed each other on the lips and Lynn turned to Peter, “Oh, you made me so horny down in my office. I was getting really aroused when you were lying in the chair. It was really hard to hide it from you and the others in the office.”. Then she took Peter and guided him to her bedroom. This was followed by a rather intense workout.

“Wow, this was a nice dinner.”, a still naked Peter said. After some more cuddling Peter looked at Lynn with a more serious look on his face and said, “What was this talking about fixed braces? You know that I do not want them.”. Lynn was a little perplexed by the sudden change of topic, but answered “I am aware of this. From a treatment perspective you would be requiring a fixed appliance. It would be so much easier to achieve a good treatment result. But of course I will respect your wishes.”. And then she gave Peter a short kiss on his forehead. Peter then said “You just shocked me. I will wear my braces as instructed. But please do not make me wear fixed braces. I can cope with this treatment, but I am not sure if I can handle fixed braces given my bad experience with treatment in the past.”. Lynn nodded, “Understood, lets continue your treatment and see were it is going.”.

After this discussion in the bedroom they finally had the dinner Peter had already prepared hours ago. Following dinner they went to the bedroom again and this time for sleeping. Of course they cleaned their teeth and braces before going to bed.

I can tell you - she is working on that. And she won't give up easily.

Chapter 19 – Rubber bands

Both woke up quite early on the next morning. They had plenty of time before they had to start their working day. Peter began to massage Lynn’s body. During their relationship he had learned about her most sensitive parts. Lynn found it very satisfying when he did this to her. And soon she was feeling very aroused. And she realized that Peter was feeling the same. She whispered in his ear “Take me.”. And Peter took her.

Peter was studying her face and especially those lovely rubber bands. He looked at her and said “Is it possible to wear rubber bands with removable braces?”. Lynn realized this was her chance, rubber bands were his weak spot. Lynn chose her words carefully, “With your type of braces it is not possible. There is nothing in your mouth that can hold the rubber band. The rubber band would just pull the braces off your teeth.”.

Peter looked a little bit disappointed, but Lynn continued, “If rubber bands are needed for a patient with removable braces then there are options available. We could use metal bands on the patients molars. The bands can be equipped with hooks to hold a rubber band. The other option is to attach small buttons on the patients teeth. Those buttons then can be used to hook the rubber bands. Why are you asking?”.

“I was just curious how those rubber bands would feel in my mouth. You know I have never had them. And they look fabulous on your braces.”. Lynn said, “Open your mouth for me.”. And she looked into his mouth, “Now bite down for me. And open it again.”. She thoroughly inspected his teeth and then said, “Well, your bite could benefit from rubber bands. I just didn’t consider this, because you didn’t wanted fixed appliances. We can add them if you want. Those buttons are also available for ceramic braces. So they are nearly invisible.”. Peter looked alarmed, “I was just curious. Lets get up. You have to go to your office and I have an important Skype call in two hours.”.

They had breakfast together. During breakfast Lynn said, “If you consider rubber bands, I would have to take X-rays of your teeth again. I have to check the roots of your teeth. So you can come down to my office after breakfast and we can at least take X-rays. You can still decide to skip the rubber bands.”. After some hesitation Peter agreed on the X-rays.

Lynn was still working on her plan to get him braces. She thought it might be a good idea to take these X-rays. She imagined that his subconscious would see them as a first step towards permanent braces. Fixed braces for Peter now were only one step away. A picture of him with metal brackets appeared in her mind, and he looked so handsome with them.
The x-rays didn't take very long. So Peter had plenty of time to go home and make his Skype call. During the morning he could hardly concentrate on his work. He considered the possibility of wearing those lovely rubber bands. He was almost aroused by the thought of Lynn putting rubber bands on his teeth.

And he wanted to find out more about those buttons. So he browsed the internet for information about those buttons Lynn had talked about. He discovered that they were mostly used with aligners. It took a long time to find a picture of a boy wearing rubber bands together with his type of removable braces. Probably the rubber bands could interfere with other parts of the appliance, making it difficult to combine them with removable braces. Looking at his braces, he realized that either the labial bow or the adam clasps could be in the way of the rubber bands. Or that the buttons could block the appliances from being inserted at all.

When he looked at the boy, he dreamed of wearing them with his braces. He dreamed of playing with them the way he had played with Lynn's rubber bands. Moving his tongue around them and feeling them in his mouth. But then he noticed that those buttons were still visible even when he was not wearing the rubber bands. This hit him very hard. No, he didn't want to be seen with braces in public. He could not stand the humiliation. No, he would not accept Lynn's offer.

Peter decided to skip the rubber bands and continue with his treatment. Then he thought about his current treatment and realized that he had forgotten to turn the screws on his braces. He was already two days late. He went to the bathroom, took out his appliances and turned all six screws. And then he put them back in. This time he felt a lot of tension coming from his braces. Yesterday's short wear might have caused a small relapse. He made a mental note to wear them as long as possible.