Metal Mouth Message Board

Worst has to be headgear, hands down. As bad as some of these appliances look and feel, at least they are contained inside the mouth. To me the worst part of braces so far has been having to wear headgear. Fortunately I don't have to wear it to school or anything like that, but I still have to wear ...

I used the Crest white strips too, about a month before I got my braces, they worked really well.

-cass

This might be a weird question, but does anyone else here go to an ortho where there is more than one chair in the room where they work on your teeth? My ortho has 2 different areas, one is a room with only one chair, the other has 3 chairs. I don't know why he has it laid out this way but when I go...

15 1/2 or 16, depending on if I get them off on time.

Hmm, well I can't imagine having to wear it all the time, but I usually wear mine for 14 hours a day, and that already seems like a lot to ask. It's hard to get 14 hours but you have to remember that 7 or 8 of those hours as spent sleeping. The rest of the time I'm usually just at home -- after scho...

I took mine off in the middle of the night a bunch of times when I just got it but once you learn to sleep with it through the night it doesn't really bother you at all. It was a nuisance at first and I just felt like I couldn't sleep with it on. But after a while it just feels normal and you have n...

Looking around on the board I'm getting frustrated. Not that I'm not happy for all of you who are seeing the results of braces, I think its awesome to see some of you whose teeth are moving so fast!! It's just that I'm looking at pictures of people who have had braces for 5 months and their teeth lo...

Cool, I didn't know there were that many people the same age as me here, I don't see that many post. :D Well picture day is over and I survuved. I have no idea how it came out but I smiled a little, not as big as I would without the braces but I guess I never really used to smile that big anyway. I ...

bbsadmin wrote:Cassidy91, your avatar is great!

Thanks I liked this one, I thought it was perfect for the site.

Thanks for all the opinions, you guys, I really appreciate it. I am not looking forward to tomorrow (picture day is always a pain) but we'll see how it turns out. I'm never really happy with the way they come out so no matter what I'm going to hate it, lol

-cass

Good luck, what colors are you getting?

Sometimes I'm not sure if all the little things they do to my teeth are necessary, I wonder if sometimes he is experimenting with new things just for fun....

Hi all, I was wondering what your opinions are on people smiling/not smiling in pictures. Monday is picture day at school and Ihappened to mention to my mom that I won't smile in the picture (this will be the first school pics since I had my braces put on in December). Now she is insisting that I sm...

thanks

Thanks you guys :) Yep it is my canine teeth that are impacted. I have an appointment on June 27 so they can cut open the roof of my mouth to expose those teeth and then the ortho is going to pull them out from the roof of my mouth to where they should be. I do NOT want to be awake for it, I'd rathe...