Metal Mouth Message Board

i have metal braces top and botom and am sentenced to around 18 months. right now i am 8 months in. the reason i decided to go with metal, is because braces are braces and plus the ortho recommended that metal would be more durable compared to the ceramic. i have even read for people who have cerami...

your teeth are looking good after 8 months. i have the space between my front teeth (diastema) which was about as big as yours. the whole reason for me getting braces. my mom had it, her mom had it and i decided it was going to stop with me. i'm about 6 months into my treatment and my gap is still t...

cowgirl, i think the issue that people have with what you wrote is your ortho said "damon brackets are fine, but the technique itself is garbage." it's true the damon system is just like any kind of brace system that is used to correcting teeth, only difference is that it is self ligating ...

you are right a labial frenectomy is where they cut the tissue between the two front teeth that connects to the gum that often causes a gap between these two teeth. i am one who has a large labial frenunum that causes a large gap between my two front teeth. right now i have started the process to ge...

the 18 year old assistant placed the brackets? if anything that would be the one thing that i would want for the orthodontist to do. i have read on here sometimes they do take off a bracket and readjust it due to the movement of the teeth. still i would want the orthodontist to place them on, with m...

i had a dream about my braces a week ago, probably call a bracemare. i have been braced for almost 7 weeks now. i had a dream where i was asleep in my bed then woke up to feel something in my mouth. i spit out what was in my mouth and it was white when i looked at it, it was one of my bottom teeth. ...

looks like as though we both got braces for the same reason. i too have a gap between my two front teeth, which is also due to hereditary. my mom has it, her brother and sister has it, her mom had it. i guess you can say i am the first one going about it to close the gap. i just recently got my brac...

i chose braces because i always wanted them since i was a teenager. i have a gap between my two front teeth which has always bothered me and wanted it closed. when i would smile or laugh i would always use my hand to cover my mouth. if taking pictures i would give a no teeth smile. now i'm at the st...

LOL!! I'm sorry..but I just couldn't resist.... I HOPE you mean pictures of your TEETH naked before braces..and not YOU naked before braces!!! LOL oh yes, i was referring to pictures of my teeth naked, not me, i'm not trying to get banned from this forum :) They are going to remove the frenulum som...

wow your space is just as big as mine along with the large frenulum. i just had my braces put on a couple hours ago, both top and bottom using the damon braces to close the gap i have which was inherited from my mother and her mother. i tried brushing my teeth with my normal toothbrush which are med...

well it's official. i am officially braced as of 11:45AM. showed up at 10:15AM. by 10:30AM i was sitting down with the financial coordinator deciding on a payment plan. i said f* it i'll pay it all up front minus the insurance coverage. soon after that they had me sitting in the seat showing me my l...

seems as though there are quite a few of us on this forum who are getting braced around the same time

kristi1003, i too am also getting braced on april 28th at 10:15 AM. although it is only a few days away i am not feeling nervous at all, i guess the day before i will wonder "what the hell am i doing?" supposedly my sentence is for 18 to 20 months and i am already 30 years old. i will be g...