Metal Mouth Message Board

I don't know how long exactly my debrace took (I don't wear a watch) but my appointment was booked for 40 minutes. I had an impression taken the week before so my lower fixed retainer could be put on as soon as the braces came off, but the impressions for the upper Essix retainer were taken on debra...

I had SL braces and my ortho snipped up powerchains into single chains to jazz up my braces. I had alternating purple and turquoise! (Then I got powerchains in all sorts of pretty colours)

I am going to buy chocolate covered brazil nuts, popcorn, salted cashews and almonds, a large selection of extraordinarily crispy crackers, celery, apples, peaches, and pineapple, along with a couple of my favourite cakes from my local health food store - crispy flapjacks made with seeds and nuts an...

I also get random tooth soreness and oddly, random tooth sensitivity. My bottom right molar has been very sensitive to hot food/drinks for about 2 weeks. The first time it happened coincided with a check up with the dentist who reassured me that it was just down to tooth movement and nothing more si...

My take on this is that when you have an adjustment, your teeth shift a little and your mouth has to get used to moving in a different way. For months when I ate and sometimes when I talked, I would pinch a tiny bit of skin on the inside of my bottom lip between my upper and lower brackets which cau...

Also glad it's not just me! :lol: I had one dream where I was walking home from work and I realised that at some point throughout the day, I'd lost my braces, like I'd taken them out to eat something and forgotten to put them back in - pretty hard with fixed braces! Another dream was pretty horrible...

My face has changed shape, but for the good. My teeth mainly tipped inwards, so my face was a bit pouchy because my teeth didn't fill it out properly. Now my teeth are in place, I have cheekbones for the first time and the pouchy bits around the jawline have gone - think of one of those makeover pro...

I had the same thing happen between my bottom front teeth. It was getting bigger and bigger, so my ortho tied the teeth together with some sort of orthodontic string (I'm sure there's a more technical term!). The gap closed up within about 20 minutes (no joke) and it was terrifically sore for a few ...

I was braced on a Friday afternoon. By Sunday, I remember lying in bed thinking "tomorrow I'm phoning the ortho and having these things taken off, this was a huge mistake!". But that was 19 months ago and now I'm so pleased I stuck it out. I hope your mouth eases soon. Mashed potato and pr...

Not me. My dentist and I had a conversation about dental hygiene and my tipped pre-molars (the spaces from my extractions about 30 years ago were never closed properly so the teeth "tipped over" when my wisdom teeth came through) and he suggested that some orthodontic work would help. I go...

I'm in South Somerset - I go to Mark Brickley at Resolution Smile. I've got metal Damon brackets upper and lower. The cost should have been £3600 but as I was a "guinea pig" for a system that was new to my ortho, he charged me £3150. I paid £70 for an inital consultation to include x-rays ...

No, I don't mind you asking at all! It went really well. My top teeth were good, but my bottom teeth were off by about half a tooth (my bottom teeth were a LOT more crooked/rotated/tipped than my top, so no surprises there). I had Chipmunk elastics running top canine to bottom molar on both sides wi...

I'm currently in the detailing phase. For me, the first 12 months were about straightening my teeth and now I'm in the middle of 7-8 months of detailing, fine tuning, call it what you will. I've had elastics to correct my midline and overbite, elastics in a box formation (thankfully only at night) t...

I don't post, but I do lurk and I had to say that mary put it so well. Don't be embarrassed of your braces - you're going to be in them for a while and it's going to get really tiring trying to talk and smile without people seeing them. I was initially really self-conscious until my mother-in-law to...

peerue, your post inspired me to actually join Archwired. I've been lurking since January! And I had to reply to "is day 12 too long to still feel like I hate these braces???" Well, let's see, I got braced on 23 January this year and yep, I still hate my braces, lol! OK, I don't hate them,...