Metal Mouth Message Board

Holy cow, U must be THRILLED with the results! Congrats!

Wow! Looks fantastic!

Wow. You must be quite a perfectionist. I think they look beautiful. Before you get yourself so worked up wait and see what the ortho tells you. Hopefully she'll set your mind at ease. Good luck.

Invisibraces - if you have money left in your flexible spending account, you should be able to use it for your ortho - those policies are usually pretty...well...flexible :wink: As long as it's something medical/health related (which ortho is) I'd imagine you'd be good, regardless of where you are i...

Ugh, that stinks :( I feel for you, after 2mos I'm STILL trying to sort out the insurance coverage on my braces. Unfortunately, there's probably not a lot you can do with Aetna - even if the wording wasn't quite clear, they're probably not going to make an exception on an age restriction like that. ...

CONGRATS!!!! So jealous ;)

I'm about 5 weeks into what is estimated to be about a 4mo treatment duration just to straighten out some crowding. I've got metal self-ligating braces (not sure what brand) on uppers & lowers but only the 6 front teeth on both. I had no intention of doing braces because of the $$ and time commi...

Great topic! Just because you have experience with braces (whether as a former metal mouth or b/c you worked in the field of dentistry/ortho) DON'T skeptically question every detail of my treatment and DON'T enthusiastically point out what YOU think my dentist is doing wrong. Trust me, I'm already f...

Wow. Thank you both Ughbraces & VA5. I think you both have valid points and really appreciate both points of view. Now please don't stress yourselves anymore with the back & forth - I'm good and you both should be too ;) I think at this point I'm going to wait for my adjustment on 4/19 and a...

I think the dentist estimated 4 mos b/c my main concern was just the crookedness of the 4 top front teeth (but I got braces on the bottom too just to tweak them while I'm at it), and truth be told, they're not horrible. My bite, although not perfect, isn't horrible and wasn't something I was really ...

Thanks for the responses, everyone! @Chicagogal - I think the doc knew Invisalign b/c it was so much more expensive - he quoted me a price of $1500 for the metal braces and there's no way he could do Invisalign for that. I am assuming that he was just happy to get any extra $ from me and he knew tha...

I kind of wound up in braces inadvertently and now wish I'd have done a lot more research before I made the decision to do this. I went to my 1st check up with a new dentist a few months ago and he mentioned (unsolicited) that he could fix the overcrowding in my top teeth in about 4mos with metal br...