Metal Mouth Message Board

Good Golly! This whole "forever" thing kind of makes me wonder..... How about this as an alternative to braces if your teeth are just crooked and it's mainly a "it's to make your teeth easier to clean" issue: Just go out and buy $500 or so of high end dental equipment at the stor...

Hi! Nope, still haven't been braced yet, but my final consult is tomorrow! I have to decide by then, and I'm still doing research and asking questions. And in that research, I read in the braces FAQ on archwired.com that the retainer used at the end of the braces phase is used for several years! I h...

I just noticed something curious as I was reading "Stories from our Readers" on the archwired.com site. As I was checking out all the stories people wrote, I noticed the vast majority of writers are women. I'm a man at 34 years of age and am considering taking the plunge. But do many men d...

Dear Doctor: I have an eye tooth in the lower front that overlaps a tooth behind it, making for hard cleaning and now a small cavity that the dentist says he can't work on because of the tight space. My other front teeth are crooked too, so braces would benefit me cosmeticaly, but I'm 34 and am not ...

KK: Thank you too, for your advice! (And my apology to everyone for that double post). Oddly, my Mom and brother (who had braces when younger, and since had his teeth pulled for being too brittle) advise me NOT to get braces. They say it's not important enough because it's mainly for looks. True, I ...

Evelyn: Thank you for your words of encouragement! I really need it right now! But you said you've been in braces for 37 months! My dentist said 24 for me. This kind of goes back to what I said in my original post about the times being longer for most people. I'm gonna be asking my ortho about his t...

Evelyn: Thank you for your words of encouragement! I really need it right now! But you said you've been in braces for 37 months! My dentist said 24 for me. This kind of goes back to what I said in my original post about the times being longer for most people. I'm gonna be asking my ortho about his t...

Well, thank you everyone for your encouragement. I had already gotten the x-rays and everything done and was really having second thoughts. Lately, I decided to forget the whole thing, but now I might reconsider and go through with it. It sounds like it's not quite as bad as I had expected. My bigge...

Well, I've been to the ortho for an initial exams and x-rays which I haven't seen yet. Then I thought I'd look on the 'net to see if there was a message board on the subject. Bingo! Here I am! After reading about all the pain you people have suffered through, and some of you sounding like you wish y...