Metal Mouth Message Board

well i got my braces off yesterday, on my 24th bday! it was fantabulous! i wore damon3's for about 16 months. my ortho really thought i was done with treatment back in may, but i kept wanting him to fix things. overall, im very pleased with my smile, although it's not really drastically different th...

i'm going to go out and say that yes, it's possible that going to a busy ortho may extend your time in braces. for example, i should be going in this week for my last appt before I get my braces off the following week. However, there were no open times for this week, so I have to keep my braces on l...

i have had damon 3's for over a year. when i first started, my ortho had completely switched to damon3's for their speed and all that jazz, but he has seen so many problems with the gates and breakage that he has discontinued using them. i haven't had alot of breakage, but my gates are hard to open ...

...could you tell that they were in a different position? I just had mine repositioned on tuesday and to me, they look like they're exactly in the same place as before. Perhaps an inperceivably small difference can make a large difference in how the tooth lines up? I'm feeling frustrated b/c my orth...

well...i printed out the pictures to take to the ortho...let's see if I actually have the balls to show them to him next week! Joanna20, as for the flaring...if you mean the angling of my teeth...I'm pretty sure that's because I had an underbite, and with no extractions, my upper teeth had to be pul...

Hi all. I have posted only once or twice before, but I read the board regularly. Anyways, a year ago today I was braced and I feel like the time has flown by. I was Class III, but my teeth compensated for it so it never looked as though I had an underbite, and had some mild to moderate crowding. I w...