something about the teeth you tend in private

It sat on my shelf for a week before I used it. Glass ionomer cement sounds clinical and cold, and I kept thinking it wasn't for me. Then I thought about what it actually does - fills the gap, holds the shape, stays.

Something about permanence.

Antibacterial ointment for root canals is not a glamorous thing to think about. But I kept coming back to it, the idea that there are parts of you that need protecting from the inside out, quietly, before anything shows.

The packaging is plain. The work it does is not.

Fine powder that removes what builds up slowly, layer by layer, without you noticing. Stain and plaque and the residue of every coffee you told yourself was the last one. The kind of cleaning that resets something.

You use it and feel like you caught it in time.

Shade modification resin is a strange thing to love. It exists for adjustment - for when something is close but not quite right and you want it to be. I don't know. maybe that's just what most of care is.

Small corrections. Repeated quietly.