Metal Mouth Message Board

Lip incompetance. That sounds very strange. lol. Not that actual thing that it is, but just the name strikes me as funny. Anyway, I don't have a LOT of lip incompetance, but it is there. As a kid, I used to always be biting my bottom lip just cause that's where my teeth rested all the time. Now it's...

Hmm, interesting. I had the initial 4 molars extracted when I was 10 or 11 years old. Then I had the other 3 extracted between about 3-5 years ago. One has left a very large gap. It would've been the third molar along (just before the smaller tooth, the nearest molar to my more front teeth), and it ...

Hi guys I'm 34 years old and had braces originally when I was 11-14 years old, then a retainer (sort of) for another year following. I had major "buck teeth" back then and although they were straight when the braces came off, there was still a fairly "narrow" smile / jawline and ...

So I'm 34 years old. If you read my intro post you will see I had braces for 3.5 years when I was 11-14 years old, and since then my teeth have shifted back to a point where I am VERY unhappy with my overbite / overjet and smile in general. Anyway, so I'm just curious...were I to get traditional bra...

Does anyone have braces just on their top teeth, not the bottom? My bottom teeth are fine. It's only the top that are bad. overbite / overjet, and very narrow sharply angled bite. Only the frontmost 4 teeth are visible when I smile and my lower face is not very full anymore due to there being no &qu...

When I was younger and originally got braces (age 11), I had to have 4 molars removed as my mouth was over crowded. I never had any wisdom teeth (seems I'm not very wise. *a tear falls* lol) Since then (age 34 now), I've had a further 4 molars removed due to well...cavities. Oops. *sheepish* Admitte...