Metal Mouth Message Board

omg, you look so great!!! congratulations!
You must be thrilled with how everything turned out

omg I think you are adorable! I especially love your nose. I think a lot of smiles don't really show a ton of teeth... because it's just not how the face is built. Everyone is different. I know that my surgeon had suggested possibly moving my upper jaw down so I could show more teeth, but I opted ou...

I'm a little late to join in on this. My surg date was 1/9, lower jaw only. I am wired for 13 more days... :roll: Can't wait to be done! I have been eating a ton of soups (curried pumpkin or lentil or roasted red pepper and tomato) as well as smoothies (protein powder and peanut or almond butter hav...

Absolutely stunning!!!

yeah... I am pretty sure that food is going to be a painful experience for the next year+ lmao.

Update: I am getting all my braces on April 14th!!! :D I haven't been on the boards in a while... but I thought I'd throw that out there. I guess since 35ksmile and I both had SARPE at around the same time- (November) and are getting braced at around the same time... that should help people know wha...

10mm, but I've heard of some people doing up to 13mm. I think anything over that would be crazy... expanders don't even go past that.

A pizza binge sounds heavenly at this point. Thank you for your replies 35ksmile and foxparadox. Chewing harder foods won't mess up how the bones heal? That's the only thing keeping me from quenching my thirst for animal flesh. Haha. I had braces on prior to the SARPE, which seems to be a little un...

dexter, it took about 5 weeks before my surgeon told me i could chew again. it sucked but i got used to it. and totally pigged out on pizza when i could chew again. :) anyway, just got banded today --- but only the lowers. no brackets or wire or anything on my uppers, besides the RPE. my orthodonti...

So I had this surgery 4 days ago and I'm dealing pretty well with it so far. I feel a little sore in the morning, but that's about all the pain I've been experiencing. Just out of curiosity, how long did it take before you guys were allowed to chew again? My surgeon told me to avoid chewing, but he...

hey! small update. it's now been nearly 2 months since my surgery. the gap got to 11mm at its widest, and is about 8mm right now. im getting braces on my bottom teeth on jan 12th, not sure if my orthodontist will do anything to my top teeth - he mentioned before that he wants them to move naturally...

I figured I would post an update too. :) My ortho put two braces (clear self lig. ones) on just my front two teeth and a power chain/rubber band between them, and they have straightened out and my gap has gone from 10mm to 5mm, thus far. it is moving about 1mm a week. It is a very slow/gentle moveme...

yeah, I had surgery nearly a month ago (November 8th) and I am still pretty tired. haha. Then again... I'm a grad student and I skip meals like crazy and am always super, super busy... so maybe that has something to do with it. :roll: I'm not too sure. One of my teachers told me that it normal to ex...

I'm confused. Why are braces needed one year before jaw surgery can be performed? I don't think they always are. I was told that I'd need braces for a year before getting SARPE... but then they changed it and thought that there might not be enough room in my mouth to move my teeth into place, so I ...

small update... as of half an hour ago i've completed all 40 turns (10mm) of expansion. 0.5mm in surgery, 9.5mm over 19 days expanding. all i can say is so far i'm really happy with the results! my face is a little fuller and it almost seems as though my upper jaw moved forward a bit and slightly c...