Metal Mouth Message Board

Hey Andromeda. Congrats on the great looking new smile! I have done Crest White Strips before. After about a week I started noticing increased sensitivity in my teeth (not quite pain, but almost) and a sort of translucent look to my teeth. But it went away as soon as I stopped the 2 week treatment. ...

You know, I just came back from my first adjustment a couple of hours ago, fully expecting a bunch of pain after reading up on here. So I took a crap load of Advil before heading over. The ortho looked at my teeth, said "great progress", told the assistant to take photos and sent me on my ...

Just a note that my ortho said the wisdom teeth had to go for sure, but I had the choice of doing it before or after braces. It didn't seem to matter one way or the other. I decided to get my 3 wisdom teeth pulled at the same time as 3 other pre-molars that needed to come out due to over-crowding. S...

Thanks everyone. It is getting a bit better, but still not great....between the tender teeth and bizarre bite issues I seem to have developed! But I am finally going Wednesday for my final brackets to be added (which were delayed due to wisdom teeth removal). I have had spacers in my bottom jaw now ...

Hey everyone. Decided to use this excellent resource for some feedback. I am wondering how long everyone had "tender teeth" after bracing and when you were able to get back into more normal food. I have severe crowding and had 8 spacers and my front brackets put on on March 4, 2009. March ...