In Kerby Bowden’s 29 years she has rarely smiled. On her wedding day, standing in her Demetrios strapless tulle gown next to her boyfriend under the gigantic fig trees at Tocal Homestead, she was bursting with happiness but ashamed to show her crooked and discoloured teeth.
Yet since mid-November the aged care nurse from Rutherford in the Hunter Valley can’t stop smiling – even in her sleep, according to her husband.