Metal Mouth Message Board

Hi habzburg, Thanks for your input. I have seen ortho since this post and it turns out I had an infection and the skin had also broken down and showing some bone around the device which is causing the pain. Also I've been advised that it's too difficult to tell re uneven expansion as there's still m...

Hi there - newbie here, I'm from London and here in the UK we have a bolt type of Sarpe expander rather than the cemented onto molars version (Hyrax???), so I'm not sure how relevant this is to you but any advice will be greatly received. I had my sarpe surgery 12 days ago now and was just wondering...