Metal Mouth Message Board

hi guys, what do you do to relieve the cheek pain from the elastics rubbing ? You cant put wax on elastics . I am due for elastics soon and after reading these posts am beginning to think its not going to be much fun

Hi all and welcome to the braces club for those who are about to be "braced" . I am 55 and have only had mine a few months . I wish I had done it when I was young like you 30 years or so ago . The first few weeks I was so self conscious and I spent hours in front of the mirror trying to br...

Hi breel.. :-1 you are in good company in this forum .. I am 55 turning 56 this year and only had braces for 2 months. I was glad to hear about the smooth extraction as i am lining up to have 2 teeth extracted later in my treatment plan so it was encouraging to hear its not so bad . Thanks for shari...

Hi tinc , when I went for my braces appointment , the ortho told me that he could see I had been grinding my teeth quite badly . I had absolutely no idea I had been doing that .In order to prevent me from breaking the brackets etc from grinding in my sleep , he has put a little bit of cement on a ba...

Hi tinc , when I went for my braces appointment , the ortho told me that he could see I had been grinding my teeth quite badly . I had absolutely no idea I had been doing that .In order to prevent me from breaking the brackets etc from grinding in my sleep , he has put a little bit of cement on a ba...

thanks sirwired and tjm for your feedback . That sounds like a fairly painful process you went through tjm :cry: what are the chances of recurrence ? I am finding that there is crowding in the floor of my mouth now from the tori and I notice that my tongue is presses against my top teeth when I wake...

I have been told I have tori ( along the inside lower arch) ... I am hoping for some technical help on whether they are caused by or contribute to malocclusion Class II please ?

Hi oldwbraces .. thats good news, I am sort of lining up for the same thing , braces on but the prospect of 2 teeth being removed , depending on how well they move .. I am no spring chicken ... I am probably v_oldwbraces http://www.archwired.com/phpbb2/posting.php?mode=reply&f=9&t=41267# wha...

Welcome to the braces club :jump: well done . I hated the first 3 days , and used loads of wax to help my poor cheeks and lips in the first 3 weeks . But at 4 weeks it felt a bit ok and suddenly at 6 weeks I forgot I had them in . They told me my cheeks would toughen up and they did :D Be kind to yo...

this might sound a bit silly in view of the above posts .. but doesnt the ortho do the adjustments AND his hygienist do the cleaning ? All at the same place ? What is the reason for sending you back to the dentist for the cleaning ?

my smilies arent working anymore ! que ?
I mean the emoticons , not my teeth

thanks everyone for the information on calicification http://www.archwired.com/phpbb2/posting.php?mode=reply&f=13&t=41106#. Here is my next question after reading all of the above ... I am wondering if you have porcelain brackets do those disclosure tabs stain them http://www.archwired.com/p...

what is decalcification please ?

Hope your brace day went well Braceface 74 . :D .I have almost everyone of my teeth filled with amalgam and 6 porcelain crowns and 2 veneers . I have a banding on one back molar and brackets on the rest . One bracket came loose from one of the veneers in the first month and was quickly replaced with...

Anybody else had this experience ? I have had regular migraines for 2 years :| and the day the braces went on the migraines stopped . :shock: Thats been 7 weeks now .That wasnt one of the reasons I needed braces. The reasons were overbite and overjet and crossbite. My ortho did comment on braceday t...