Metal Mouth Message Board

Thanks, Kenny! I am relieved to hear that somebody else is having it done this way. It makes me much more hopeful in speeding this process along. Now all I have to do is get my ortho to agree to do it this way! I really don't know why he has been doing it one arch at a time. Maybe it allows for more...

Hi everyone, I have been at this for a very long time and have had a lot of problems (see other posts if you want a back story!). I am now in braces for a third time and to say I want this to be over quickly is an understatement. I am booked in to get spacers on the bottom on the 17th and bottom bra...

So I had my appointment this morning. It went okay. He adjusted some things and said that he is trying to get the bite right. He said next time we'll evaluate if you want to push the teeth back further (it's always 'next time'), but he kind of made a face as if to say that I shouldn't. I then asked ...

Thank you, ArchWired, for your responses. Yes, I'm hoping he will move the back teeth forward as well. He is hesitant to do so since he's never used those TADs (like we discussed in previous posts), but I'm hoping he will concede ;). We did talk about taking the braces off and seeing how I feel and ...

No gap closures yet. I haven't had an appointment since I posted last. Plus he isn't going to even think about closing any gaps until the rest of my teeth have been pushed back to the point they need to be. That makes sense since if we keep pushing the teeth back, the gaps will get smaller, so there...

I don't know what's normal anymore and it's driving me crazy! I am trying to reverse what my previous dentist did i.e., I am trying to push my top teeth back so that my lips no longer catch and stick on my teeth (a side effect of my botched ortho treatment). This Monday I have an appointment with my...

Hi ArchWired, Thank you for your response and for taking the time to read my full story! I haven't yet tried anything to close the gaps, we've been trying to accomplish some other things first. I never thought about him suggesting TADs only because something else might not work. I will check with hi...

I currently have large gaps in my teeth - one on each side, right between my canines and my first pre-molars. It's a long back story, but these teeth were extracted as a child and the gaps were closed with an appliance. I had a different "ortho" (was just a dentist but doing orthodontics) ...

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Hi All, I was wondering, has anyone else had jaw pain throughout their treatment? I originally had braces to fix my TMJ ... long story but the dentist screwed up and I had to get braces on again to fix his mess. The only thing that he did right was I wasn't having jaw pain really anymore. Well, I am...

Hi Blt178, I feel your pain ... I really do. I spent over 3 years with one dentist (who wasn't an ortho ... likely my first red flag) who completely screwed up my mouth to the point where I couldn't smile or speak comfortably anymore. I had the braces off for 6 months during which time I was a compl...

I just re-read your post again and I wanted to add that you need to be very, very careful with lumineers and veneers. Lumineers are advertised sometimes as not being permanent, as in, you can remove them if you don't like them. This is not true, as your teeth underneath are shaved down. Same thing w...

I'm so sorry to hear this :(. I had braces before too and they totally wrecked my ability to smile and speak normally. Mine was a different sort of issue, but I had trouble smiling too so I totally know how you feel. I'm back in braces now trying to get it sorted out. Is it that you are having diffi...

Mine is male ... and I agree, way more males!

I just have top braces right now, but am getting bottom ones put on in ... 1 hour and 10 minutes! Eeep ... I've had braces before (and recently), so I know what to expect, but I'm still not looking forward to this at all. I hate how dry my mouth is all the time already and how my brackets dig into m...