Metal Mouth Message Board

hey jennicole98! It's much better--after about week 4, I felt I could talk normally-ish. Still though, sometimes I feel people can't understand some words/sounds over the phone. The only issue I've had with it is I had some kind of ulcer/inflammed taste bud that just kept rubbing/getting iritated by...

Good Luck on Thursday!! When I went in for the bracing, the assistant was like, oh you seem excited, I don't get many people like that! I said I was ready to get this started, of course by the end I was ready to run the hell out of there and rip the damn TPA out, lol! Where are they putting your TAD...

Well thankfully talking has improved a bit. My SO says I sound much better, but I still feel like it sounds like I'm slurping through a broken straw when I talk. The upper wires are a little pokey right now, especially since all the last molars are not wired. So you have the rough brackets rubbing o...

I've had a headache steadily growing for the last few hours, now I notice that the front of my cheekbones are throbbing . Ouch. I suppose that means the intrusion is working already. All my teeth are super tender, and I don't think they even put in a "real" wire (well, it had no bends or s...

One of mine did that after a week (although I ended up with two different sets in for 5 weeks total--and they didn't have any problem). I wedged it back in with two pieces of floss it was pretty easy. I read it somewhere on here: loop two pieces of floss through to spacer, pull it apart with the flo...

Day 2 of sounding fraking ridiculous. It's maybe 1% better. I waxed half my mouth up to sleep last night. I think that helped. Spent half of today waxed too. But then I had to eat...eventually. Ouch ouch owie. I can already feel the hurt in my molars from the intrusion TPA. Everything else is sore b...

Okay, some pics (hopefully). Keep in mind that the majority of my orthodontic work (and money) is going to behind-the-scenes improvements. I realize my crooked teeth on the bottom are not too bad, but the TPA (with TAD) is doing all the heavy lifting (or counter-leevering, I suppose). Befores: http:...

Current Mode: :-+ OMFG WHAT THE FRAK DID I DO??? :-+ Pain: 2/10 Discomfort: 10/10 Lisping/Difficulty Speaking: 100000000000000000000^10/10 Summary: There is a huge fraking thing in my mouth and I am barely understandable when speaking. Damn, this TPA is much lower than I thought it would be. And I'm...

So I realized that my problem (or one of them) was because a spacer was jammed up into the gum...ouch. I managed to fish it would with some floss. Everything felt loads better afterwards. Finally brace day tomorrow. I'm oddly curious and excited to see what the frak this device thingy is going to lo...

Holy crapola. My teeth still hurt with these blasted spacers in. I know I needed to make more space than normal because I have fillings in-between those molars...but damn they still hurt. It's like they'll be okay for a few days, then BAM! they'll hurt again. I should mention it's been nearly 5 week...

[quote="MissRed"][quote="amelie82"]Hey ya! I think we might almost be brace twins, lol. I'm getting my on Feb. 12, and a TPA secured with a mini screw (and coil springs to intrude the molars and such). Because of your open bite are they going to intrude your molars at all? I don'...

Went for my appt for molds. They put on two upper molar bands temporarily to take the impressions. My one cheek was already cut up just from the 10 or so minutes it was on. That doesn't bode well for the future (although if I recall correctly, I always had lots of rubbing/cut up cheeks from when I h...

Hey ya! I think we might almost be brace twins, lol. I'm getting my on Feb. 12, and a TPA secured with a mini screw (and coil springs to intrude the molars and such). Because of your open bite are they going to intrude your molars at all? I don't have an open bite--mine are being intruded for tmjd c...

Congrats on the braces! I keep reading new braced stories and getting sooooo ready for mine already. :tingrin: I had a choice of all metal or metal top/clear bottom. But for the extra $350 (or something) it didn't seem worth it. When I talk/smile my teeth show evenly to slightly more upper teeth, so...

Congrats! I'm getting molds/imaging tomorrow (if this supposed snow storm doesn't cancel it all). And then braces Feb.12!! Eek, I'm impatient and hesitant all at once.
I'm debating quiet colors first or going all out How do you like the silver ligs?