In Hamish's chair

"Hamish reconnected the top and bottom parts of his appliance, and returned it to my mouth.

"'How does that feel?' My joints were a little achy after all of the biting, grinding and opening wide, but the appliance itself was remarkably comfortable. I could feel the inner wires supporting the moulded palatal sections, but they weren't bothersome. The roughness of the brackets was something I'd forgotten about, but even that wasn't bad. It was hard to judge how the pistons felt. I could feel them against my cheeks and I imagined I could hear them too, but they weren't at all troublesome. It was a huge improvement over an enormous lump of plastic."