Metal Mouth Message Board

Thank you pocketlint and lau! Your suggestions, information and support are so helpful to me - I really appreciate your taking the time to respond to my post. And I'm slowly starting to see the upsides to these braces - I've never been able to fully justify quite this much Haagen Dazs in my diet bef...

Thanks so much for the reply...was very low and in a lot of pain, desperate to get some idea if this is normal. Great suggestions!

Appreciated :)

Hi there, I got my braces on a week ago - they are upper and lower metal braces, self-ligating brackets with ultra light force wires. What I wasn't expecting was the intense mouth pain due to cuts! I expected tooth and muscle aches of course but I also feel like my mouth (which is very small) is a m...