Metal Mouth Message Board

I for one wouldn't care if my braces had to be on for 10 years! LOL! :shock: It's just that I'd like to be told that it might take that long, instead of being given unrealistic expectations beforehand. At the end of the day, it's going to take as long as it takes... I don't want it rushed... but PL...

I only have braces on my uppers because I couldn't afford to have both and my bottoms were perfectly straight. My ortho just gave me a retainer type thing for my bottoms which he called a splint. They are connected to my uppers by elastics and improving my bite (generous of him as theoretically I'm ...

mine was quite unusually probably...and a bit vain. I had terrible teeth as a kid, had braces (for free on NHS) at 14-15. They were so perfect when I came off. Then a few years later one tooth (yes just one) had started to slip back, and in photos it looked as if it wasn't there at all. So I decided...

Anyone else feel like their treatment is never going to end??!!?? I had braces before as a kid and then had a tiny tiny bit of crowding on my top teeth after a few years which I decided to have repaired (expensive but it bothered me) So I went to the ortho that did my braces first time round in July...