In Dental Braces, An Opportunity To Rebuild Self Esteem For Some

Dental braces are devices worn in the mouth, with the view of bring teeth into perfect alignment.

There are a number of factors that can cause teeth to fall out of alignment. The first of these is 'simply nature:' where a person is simply born with misaligned teeth. Indeed, very few people are born with perfectly aligned teeth. Most of us are born with misaligned teeth, with only the degrees of severity varying - and with the misalignment in some people being great enough to put them at a huge disadvantage, 'looks-wise.' Even those born with perfectly aligned teeth, however, are likely to find themselves starting to lose that perfect alignment with time, unless they do something to maintain it. So we end up with a situation where virtually everyone who wants to maintain or acquire perfect dental alignment has to make use of the dental braces.

It is, however, the people with severe dental misalignment who have in the dental braces, an opportunity to rebuild their self esteems.

To understand how dental braces become a tool for rebuilding self esteem, it is important to appreciate the fact that we are living at a point in time when the acceptance of the society has become extremely conditional. Unlike previous human societies, which were normally willing to accept everybody with their 'warts,' today's society will only accept you if you 'meet a certain criteria.' For the most part, one of the criteria that you have to meet, in order to gain today's society's acceptance is that of looking good. If you don't look good, you are likely to find that the society is not very accepting of you.

Almost inevitably, rejection causes the self-esteem of the person on whom it is meted to plummet. Self-esteem, by the way, is the respect one has for themselves. But while it is 'self' esteem, it often depends greatly on the feedback one gets from others. When you are constantly getting negative feedback from others, in the form of rejection, it starts getting to you - pulling your self esteem down.

Now as mentioned earlier, one of the criteria for acceptance by today's society is looking good. And more often than not it starts in mouth: where a person's dental formula is examined, and people who either have their teeth stained or misaligned implicitly rejected.

So for the person who has become subject for rejection (with the consequent impact on their self esteem) on account of their teeth misalignment, there lies in dental braces the opportunity to rebuild that shattered self esteem. For this person, proper and consistent use of the dental braces as advised by the dentist is likely to have the impact of bringing the teeth back into perfect alignment. The restoration of proper teeth alignment could see others becoming more (subtly) welcoming of the person in question. This would lead to a situation where the person in question feels more liked, hence starts liking themselves, leading to a rebound of their self esteem. This rebuilding of a person's self esteem, by the way, is likely to have the impact of making them happier - as self esteem is the main pillar upon which happiness is founded.

by: James Maloney

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