Metal Mouth Message Board

I was a bit confused with people talking about having the inman tightened, but at my appopintment last week my guy put a little bead of plastic on inner springs, effectively making them more compressed and therefore pushing harder. I have definitely felt a difference (back to no apples for a few day...

Hi all, Had my 9 week appointment recently. Surprisingly, no shaving, as the teeth haven't yet reached the point where they "lock" again and need space creating. I raised my concerns about the amount of shaving going on and needed in the future, and the doc said it was necessary but that t...

Welcome, Sunny- I hope you get all you want from your treatment. Care to fill us in on the story of how you came to become an Inmaner?

Hi All. I had my 6 week appointment on Thursday, and it was good and bad news. The good is that the two teeth either side of my front two (incisors? really should learn the names) are apparently in their final positions already, which just leaves the very front ones to go. My worry is that looking a...

Hi everyone and welcome Daneo. I have had my IA for one month and one day. Still wearing it between 16 and 23 hours a day depending on what I'm doing. No noticable extra movement since I had the shaving done a week and a bit ago, though as I've said before I'm not very observant- I wish I had a set ...

Welcome *R*, and congrats on doing the sensible thing and getting straight into the habit of wearing it at work. You lot are going to shame me into doing the same, aren't you?! ;) What sort of "attachments" on the front do you mean? I know there are different versions of the appliance to m...

Good for you, Elina, wearing yours straight away at work. Well done. I had my 3ish week since starting appointment this afternoon. Having chickened out of wearing it at work (except when I can be sure I have some uninterrupted time) I was expecting my doctor to be annoyed with me. But when he asked ...

When I'm done with the Inman I will get something very similar to an Invisilign for a few more weeks. This is because one of my teeth needs to be slightly rotated in a way the Inman can't quite achieve (still not sure why!). This appliance will then become my "retainer" to wear at night fo...

Welcome, Toothygrin. You're a veteran at 8 weeks! :) Jules, you have my total respect for wearing it at work straight off! I still haven't had the courage, and I'm really rather disappointed in myself. I haven't noticed any visible movement yet, at the 2-and-a-half week mark, but I was told there wo...

I discovered the difficulty of biting into things when I went to bite into my morning apple- Ouch!!!

Me again- hello. Pain? Nothing much, really, and certainly less than the tenderness I remember enduring after my teenage train tracks were tightened. However, I must say at this early stage (has it really only been 4 days?!) there's noticable discomfort when I take out or replace the aligner. For ex...

I, too, am the victim of secretive wisdom teeth causing trouble, though I didn't know that was the cause of my wonky front teeth until I finally got bothered enough about them to go for my consultation back in June. Heck, I wasn't even sure if I had wisdom teeth until I asked! Funny how some people ...

Hi there, (Sorry- haven't looked at this in a couple of months!) I did indeed go for the Inman. It's taken a little while to get here- my initial consultation was at the end of June and because I hadn't visited a dentist for years I needed a proper going over and a couple of fillings before they cou...

Hello. I'd like to know if anyone has any experience of Inman aligners? My story: I had multiple teeth extractions as a child (eight in one go!) then a removable plate followed by about a year of fixed braces on my upper teeth (no one seemed bothered about my lowers). Then a while with a retainer......