Metal Mouth Message Board

Haha, maybe when I have awesome teeth, I can be an extra or something in one of these filmings! Sadly, the turbos remain. I thought I'd cry (big baby) when I found out, but the assistant who did most of the adjustment is so sweet. I got a new top wire, which appears to be the thickest I can have, ju...

Second adjustment tomorrow, and I am excited/nervous! Turbos, rubber bands, what's next? (I really don't know, my ortho hasn't laid out a treatment plan, and I am always a bit too distracted by the stuff going onto my teeth to ask while I'm there.) The combination of the rubber bands and these thick...

The things that are bugging you sound just like mine! The bottom midline is way off and the whole thing feels crooked, bigger gap between jaws on either the right or left, depending on how I shut my mouth. My front four bottom teeth feel and look like they were pulled up way too much in relation to ...

Thicker wires and rubber bands, that's what came. My ortho seemed to have a tough time getting the new wires on, ouch! The rubber bands are in a square shape, from the back molars to the front bicuspids. They really emphasize the crookedness of my jaws, which is what I was going for all along. Oh we...

First adjustment tomorrow morning, 6 weeks in! I am way too excited. I have no idea what's coming. My wires are pretty much straightened out except that the top one still swoops a little in the front. I guess intrusion of those front teeth is the biggest challenge besides overbite correction. I hope...

I hope you're not having too much pain with the new wires! My first 6 week adjustment is this week too (tomorrow). I don't know what they plan to do yet, though. The "doors" on your brackets are nice-I keep coloring my ligatures, so on top of the discolored glue areas, I have nice yellowis...

Your upper arch looks like it evened out a lot in just 6 weeks! I got ceramics top and bottom two days after you got your tops. It's awesome how quickly they can move!

Thanks for visiting! I agree, the younger ones can be a little flip about those retainers and should have to be warned by us, demonstrating their future return to orthodontics. . . For examples of those who could have been warned, see: my husband, my baby sister (who was lucky to have bad enough tee...

I am 27 and I got braces last month. Big step, awkward step. I live in the city and have yet to see another person over the age of 12 wearing them (although, believe me, I look!) My ortho told me that up to 50% of her patients are adults, but I love to make my visits at 8am when no one else is in ye...