When I was almost 4 years old, I went to my aunt’s house in Interlagos with my mother, my father and my one year old brother to celebrate Christmas.
My whole family was there waiting for us, so that we could have dinner and open the presents. As we arrived, I was entering the room holding hands with my mother and neither of us saw that the rug was up. I accidentaly put my left foot beneath it and fell, hitting my mouth on the corner of the table. I don’t remember what happened immediattly after because I fainted.
My parents were extremily desperate because my mouth was bleeding a lot. They tried to call my dentist, who was in Ubatuba and told us to go to his sister’s -who is also a dentist- office. Me and my parents arrived there at about midnight and I was exausted. The dentist staid for 2 and a half hours trying to put a special bracet in my teeth so that they didn’t fell of, but it didn’t work as it should. Due to the impact with the table, my front tooth was practically loose.
I left the office at 3 in the morning with a strange bracet. Only Two days later, my tooth fell of. Since I was too young to lose a tooth, I started to use a bracet with a fake one, so that the others teeth didn’t change places, and I had to use it 24 hours a day, only taking it off to eat. However, the fake tooth was darker than the others, and all of my friends and kids I didn’t even know from my school started making fun of me saying that my tooth looked horrible. That made my self-steem decrease a lot, however there was nothing I could do.
I used this bracet with the fake tooth from 4 to 8, when I accidentally lost it at school during break. The moment I lost it, i knew my mother would be very angry at me and would say that I didn’t take good care of it, so I left the classrom and started to look for it everywhere in the school. I also asked the school cleaners if they could help, but they didn’t find it. My mother got very upset and took me to the dentist to see what he could do. When we got there, he told me that I didn’t have to use it anymore because my front tooth was starting to grow. What a luck!