Metal Mouth Message Board

Also, re your hyperbolic message up top: you don't really want to get into a Horrible Stuff Olympics on here. There are people on here, I daresay, who have had it much worse than you, and you don't really make yourself look that good by trying it on. Just so you know that's an extremely insensitive...

I really wanted to post an update but since everyone that has responded seems to look at whatever I say in such a bad way it's probably not worth it. After having probably the worst orthodontic appointment yet I no longer can accept everyone's assesement that it gets easier. It sure as hell doesn't....

Welcome, and wonderful to see another 27 year old on this board! Just got my top braces about 2 weeks ago. I won't be getting bottom braces till my one tooth moves into place on the top. All orthodontist tend to do things differently as far as progression of things. I got my molds, xrays and spacers...

Yeah I've gotten the "I didn't think your teeth were bad" before but it was coming from people I actually look up to and their arguments are somewhat valid. Honestly I never smiled much and on the surface my teeth problems were actually really well hidden but I got to the point( that I fou...

I'm with you there I constantly vent here myself. Heck my entire intro to here was pretty much all venting(see pessimistic about braces). I've only had top braces for maybe 2 weeks now and I hate them and pretty much when I think of food I get depressed and there is no way I don't notice them when I...

catgyrl = Apology accepted. Thank you for the concern though it is appreciated. Some days are easier than others that day happen to be a awful day of course. klobird = Thanks for understanding where I stand and glad to hear that it does get easier to a point. My biggest problem is I'm not a big fan ...

Sorry, but I think your negative attitude isn't going to help you at all during this process I'm sorry but that's who I am if that bothers you I can't help it and I have every right to have a negative attitude just like you having a positive one, Just because it bothers you isn't my problem. Someti...

Update: So without warning I got a power chain put on my tooth in the roof of my mouth which I thought was being waited on till after my vacation. I wanted to protest but I want this damn thing moved sooner rather than later but a warning would have been nice. I wasn't able to take medication before...

Update: So got top braces wednesday evening as planned though I had to go to an appointment with the oral surgeon the day before since I seemed to have developed some kind of infection in one of my lower extraction sites. Was red and hurt to touch and a bump formed on my gum behind it. A week later ...

Seems my top brace day was pushed 3 days earlier than planned and I'm not too happy about it. Instead of a saturday afternoon with a day after to get use to them I have to get them on a wednesday evening and then go to work the next day and somehow figure out how to eat soft food at my desk. It's ei...

I'm kinda worried after reading this thread about eating. After going on a soft food diet for getting teeth extracted and then get spacers less than a week later(which is more painful then teeth pulling for me mind you) I haven't been able to chew since getting just 2 spacers I'm afraid after gettin...

I'm 27 and just got 4 bicuspids pulled about a week ago and will be getting upper braces in a few weeks. It's scary and I was a wreck the entire time leading up to it but once it's done and starting to heal it does get better. As far as looks go I was worried about that too and in my case I had a ba...

Update: Went to ortho today and got two more spacers on the top but just 2(still painful though and I was just feeling better today). I also got a bite plate of some kind he just calls it a device so not sure how to describe it just for the bottom teeth. I'm to wear it 15 to 20 minutes a day at leas...

So I'm new, found this site after looking on the net for other adults with braces. I'm 27 female and finally by being pushed by loved ones and friends to get braces. Not because they saw anything wrong with my teeth but because I apparently make a lot of comments concerning my teeth since I was at l...