Metal Mouth Message Board

I haven't read all the responses, but I tend to disagree with the reasoning of the OP from the first post. I am also 25, just got braces last month and honestly if anything it has boosted my confidence. Before I was kind of embarrassed to smile, I don't have horrible teeth, but I have pretty big gap...

You will probably get bite turbos to make sure your top incisors don't hit the lower brackets. They are definitely annoying at first, but you get used to them and they will also speed up your overbite correction (hence the name bite turbos).

I've had top braces for a little over a month now and I just accidentally applied a bit of pressure on my archwire between my back most 2 molars and I noticed the wire bends and moves freely through the back most molar's bracket, leading me to think there is no ligature on that bracket. The same thi...

Hi, I just got bite turbos 2 days ago to correct a slight overbite. All was good the first 2 days, but my back teeth on the left side just "figured out a way" if you will, to touch each other, not fully come into contact but the buccal tips of the teeth can touch each other and exert a fai...