Metal Mouth Message Board

hey kylesoccer I have no overbite at all. My bite is calss 1, so in order to make space for lower jaw forward movement, 2 teeth will have to be extracted - so the lower teeth are brought back prior to surgery (in effect making the bite worse and look even more recessed). Its a fairly standard approa...

i am seeing Dr Henri Thuau in London..He is supposed to be one of the best.

Hi Bathspider I can also relate to what you have said. My ortho says I could benefit from just a genio, but I have a recessed weak jaw, and a genio is only masking an underlying proportion imbalance. I too have also paid to see 2 top surgeons, one here in london, and one in Belgium. Both say the sam...

I have already seen two, and while the last one has a lot of experience with surgical cases, she refuses to expand my arches (which was recommended by the maxfacs surgeon). In fact, the only thing she plans to do for a hefty £7000 is move my teeth back after 2 extractions, when i have very obvious ...

Dr Maurice Mommearts in Bruges, Belgium He is the president of the European Ass of Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgery. I had a consult with him in June. Very professional. I am still debating going with him, due to the low cost, and hisincredible credentials, also living in the UK myself. Only down side ...

thanks for the responses so far. since we are mentioning names, I will say its Peter Gascoine who I have gone to see. Anyone heard or had any experience with him? The consultation cost was £120, and he said the next visit is the "report" assesment which usually costs just over £200 but s...

Hi group I am going to embark on pre-surgical orthodontics prior to upper and lower jaw orthognathic surgery. So far i have seen a harley st based ortho, and was quoted £6000 for damon braces and £9000 for incognito lingual braces, based on a year and half of treatment. Those figures seem high to ...