Four weeks ago, I was fitted with Invisalign retainers – those bespoke plastic aligners or ‘trays’ that midlife women, clearly too old for braces, use to straighten their teeth.
It was the culmination of at least six years of thinking about it, planning it and then endlessly changing my mind.
I used to have perfectly good teeth, but as we get older our jaws shift because our bone density decreases and, like sinking gravestones, our teeth become crooked and loose.
My once-straight pearly whites were getting jagged and ugly. And, after years of drinking black coffee and red wine, I could see they
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