Metal Mouth Message Board

Careful what you wish for! LOL I said the exact same thing until my last appointment. I bragged to my ortho and staff that I never had any pain following adjustments. :oops: Well all that changed with an upper arch wire change and "chain" to close an IPR space on the bottom arch. The first...

I'm always so excited about my appointments .....one step closer to the end. I'm usually a little nervous too, worried things aren't going as well as planned or that I'm going to have to have some new and weird things done to my poor teeth. LOL So far I've not had any power chains, elastics, TADS or...

I found this site before making my initial appointments. The site definately was a huge factor in making my decision to get braces at the tender age of 49. I'm very grateful for the support and information generated from this site.

Congrats! Pictures are gorgeous

MJ, Definately get a 2nd opinion! I came very close to not going to my second opinion appt. but I'm soooo glad I did. I really liked my first appt. Doc and he gave me the same treatment plan as the ortho did when I was 13 yrs old (never did end up happening though) He wanted to pull 4 teeth. My seco...

Thanks for your support and advice everyone. :-9 I ended up coming home a little early. :-(( I called my Ortho on Thursday, she was on vacation too but left someone on call for her. I tried that number but they were at lunch. So I said the heck with it at that point, but by Friday AM, it was driving...

You can say that again. Back to a soft diet as well, which provides it's own set of challenges while away from home.

:-+ Here I am away at the beautiful beach for a much deserved vacation. My problems began last night I noticed the wire on my lower arch felt funny.... sure enough the end of it came out of the hole in the last bracket. Now today a bracket on the other side of the lower arch came off. It's still att...

I think I'm obssessed. I always wonder why so many famous people don't have their teeth fixed.

AWESOME

#4 for me. I was really afraid I wouldn't be disciplined enough to keep the trays in. I think I made the right decision as there are so many times I've thought if I could take these braces off for awhile I would. I also work for a Physician who had them and had to have metal braces put on the bottom...

Absolutely beautiful!!!

Congrats! Your smile is my inspiration

Good Luck Tomorrow!!!! Not as bad as I thought it would be.

So, I asked the Doc if there was anything I should pickup before brace day on Thursday. I took her advice, I had steak and crusty bread for supper tonight and a baby ruth for dessert. I'm getting so excited and alittle scared too. :shock: I was happened to be in a local discount store today and foun...