Chewing on both sides of my mouth

I'd been thinking that my jaw muscles were atrophied during the three months I waited for them to encrown my dental implants.

Of course I didn't think of the year and half since they pulled my molars (the week of my wedding I'll have you know)

Nor the year or so before that when these teeth were but painful bloody stumps.

It is a strange thing, to change for the better