Metal Mouth Message Board

Just wanted to update with some pictures. It's been two months!!! Hate these torture devices but they are pretty amazing!!

I have to say its so fun knowing that so many other people around the world are in the same shoes that I am. It's really reassuring when I look in my daily life and see no one going through the same thing I am that is the same age. Whenever I feel like I'm alone I come here and know I'm. To!! Good l...

Welcome to the club Kevin!! Good thing about getting braces in high school is I'm sure you have a big pool of friends to ask all your questions! Good luck!

I just got my extractions done 4 days ago. I was completely put out in order to do mine. I'm so glad I paid the extra for that. Two impacted wisdoms teeth and two pre molars. One side looks and feels great. The other was much more complicated and I'm still swollen and black and blue. It's all relati...

I'm 4 days post op from all of my extractions. One side is healing very very well and almost had no pain from the procedure. The other side is a completely different story. My impacted wisdom tooth on the right was so far up and at a crazy angel as he put it was very difficult to get to as well as g...

I purchased mine today online and can't wait for it to get here!

When my lower brackets were rubbing on my lip I used the wax at night but not during the day. I found that it healed better that way. I sometimes had to durning the day if it got really bad but remember that if you wear it all the time your mouth will never get used to it. But I'm sure you already k...

I'm here three days into my two year long journey. I'm feeling pretty good today. It was a easy first day and hard second day. The process of placing my bands was very difficult. I had the spacers for a little over a week and even though they hurt like crazy they did not create much room for the ban...

Hi I'm 34 years load and a stay at home mom to two wonderful kids. My braces journey started when I was 10 years old. I had a horrible experience which led to extreme anxiety with anything dental related. A few years ago my daughter started her journey with braces and we were in a holding pattern wi...