Metal Mouth Message Board

Blankets.
Sometimes I wake up in the morning and have fluff from my blankets in my teeth. The synthetic blanket causes a fingernail-on-chalkboard effect.

I mentioned the snap-crackle-pop and my orthodontist told me "They can't move if they don't come loose"
It's a minor amusement now.

I got my power chains on day 1. The main reason that I'm getting braces is to close some gaps so that made sense. I'm in month two now. I have the powerbands around my front top incisors. After my first week, my 2nd incisors were moving, I could feel little pops and crackle sounds when I wiggled the...

Greetings, Are you your orthodontist's oldest patient? They tell me that I'm not, but I've never seen anyone else in the office older who wasn't a parent of a patient. I'm 43 and just got my second go-'round with metal-mouth on 12/6. My son has had braces for nearly a year and I had braces when I wa...

I drink a lot of coffee and my powerchain and ligs get yellow especially when I drink it black.
My wife suggested that I rinse my teeth with hydrogen peroxide. I know that it's a bleaching agent so it just might work but I'm wondering about the mouth of foam or damage.
Has anyone else tried it?

That's nice, where do I sign-up for a lunch and learn with Oral-B? The list price is $140! The street price is $90 at Amazon.com. I'll sit through a lunch for a crack at one of those. I took a look at the toothbrush ontheir web site and it looks nice, nice flash graphics also. I was wondering how it...

And I'm interested to hear about your shock because I've been experiencing something almost like that ocassionally when I rinse with cold water. I'm not sure what it is, but I'd assume its normal. It's not so much a shock as an electrical tingle. It's caused by the dissimilar metals of the fillings...