Metal Mouth Message Board

Hello!
Me again.

Have you started treatment yet?

Hi Voix Sorry, haven't been on for ages. They are called Brackenwood in the city centre of Birmingham. I initially went to the one my dentist recommended and had so many problems with them contantly rearranging my appointments and messing me around. So I found Brackenwood on the net and had long con...

I chipped mine but they said it didn;t really matter.

opera^gal wrote:I'm new to elastics as of Monday...wearing a box configuration and I hate them! I look forward to each meal/brushing removal, so I can open my mouth wide and stretch. I'll keep wearing them as prescribed, but I'm less than thrilled with the whole set up.

Sounds awful. What is a box config?

me, and quite a bad one here's how i'm supose to wear my damn elastic http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/5428/222a.jpg very difficult to put on, and it snaps when i yawn How long do you have to wear them for? That must be annoying when they snap! They must be quite tight then. my ortho said that if...

how quickly? i have the same problem,i have the elastic for about 3 weaks, about 22 hours per day, and i can't see any movement :( altrough my teeth straighten very fast.. Very quickly. I had to go back to the ortho because one of the inside brackets came off and he said one of the cross bites had ...

I had the same thing on the left side, an elastic from the inside of my top molar going to the outside of my bottom molar. It was really easy to get used to and my crossbite was fixed really quickly. Good luck!! Thanks! Actually, one of the brackets popped off when i was eating a breadstick! So i h...

Uhg! I wish I could be in elastics! I've been waiting 4 months for my gaps to close. They finally closed, the ortho took off the powerchains and 2 of them opened back up! I'm going back in to have those chains put back on! No way I'm delaying my treatment! I'm supposed to have some of my brackets m...

haywire wrote:me, and quite a bad one

here's how i'm supose to wear my damn elastic

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/5428/222a.jpg

very difficult to put on, and it snaps when i yawn

How long do you have to wear them for? That must be annoying when they snap! They must be quite tight then.

Hi I have had my bace on no for nearly 12 months and am nearly finished! I went to the Ortho yesterday and there are still 2 teeth that are cross biting. Unluckily for me, I have had to have elastics on both sides. The ortho had to stick a new bracket on the inside of 2 teeth and connect the band to...

Hi
I know this message probably has got to you too late...
I am from Birmingham UK and nearly at the end of my treatment at Brackenwood Cosmetic Dentist in Birmingham city centre. Would def recommend if you still have not found one you like.