Metal Mouth Message Board

The end is near as my ortho had told me. He said I might get the braces off before Christmas. But I still have concerns about my teeth and would like to get some opinions on here. You all have been a very helpful resource during my journey. Everyone here is very educated on braces and might see some...

Haha I had similar experience. It was almost 2 yrs ago, I started seeing my current bf he's a wonderful guy. But like 2 months into the relationship he said he had something important to tell me but he didn't know how I would react to that. Well I was thinking were he married or divorced with 5 kids...

You can try to apply for CareCredit. It's kinda like a credit card. It can be used to pay for healthcare expenses up to $5000. When I had it it was no interest if I pay it off within a year. I got it to pay for my dental expenses.

Double Post sorry

Hey FluffyBottom, your experience sounds like mine. And also others who had commented on having similar treatment plans. I'm more relieved now. I have serious deep bite. No noticeable overjet. My ortho started on my upper. And then after like 7 months he braced my bottom as well. And right now the o...

Thx for stopping by my story, wow so much movements in 2 months, now I'm jealous lol. Good for you. You must be happy with the results so far.

Somehow I think my ortho is taking his sweet time. I dunno. Just my opinion maybe I do need more work done than others.

Lisa65 Thanks for the reply. I hope the ugly duckling stage will pass soon and I can show everyone my choice is right. gingerprince Thanks for telling me your experience. Did you have extraction like halfway during treatment? or right at the beginning? I just had the extraction like 7 months into t...

wow It has been almost 8 months since I had upper braces on. I honestly don't how good my progress is. I read a lot of other peoples' stories but every case is unique so I can't compare. The one thing that bugs me right now it's the increased overjet in my upper arch. And some friends made comments ...

Hi everyone, I have deep bite. Before braces my deep bite was like more than 100%. But no serious overjet. There was some degree of overjet since the upper were covering 100% the upper had to be like 2mm from the lower. Since having braces my upper teeth were clearly protruding forward like 10mm. An...

2 premolars extraction this afternoon….now I’m scared… I haven’t dealt with my wisdom teeth yet. My general dentist does not push to have my wisdom teeth taken out because they do not bother me. My ortho did not push to have my wisdom teeth taken out as well. So here I am at 25, and never re...

I am getting ceramic uppers and metal lowers (I'm going to ask for pink ligs on my bottoms!). Me too! So getting the pink ligs on my bottoms!! I have ceramic uppers too. I think the ortho staff only ask the metal patients to choose the lig colors. Coz my bf has metal braces and he gets asked to cho...

Long time no writing my own story :( No more whining...when I wrote my last post, I was desperate to see changes. And then time flew by. Until one day I realized...omg....how did the changes take place without me knowing? The setback tooth...is coming out too. When I still had the springcoil to open...

As far as movement goes...NOPE...NONE...

A tiny gap between my 2 big front teeth...that's about it...
At this tiny rate to open up spaces...guess i'll be in braces forever.

I know I am not the best candidate for braces. I am a very impatient person.

Last wk I was in my bf's car...driving around (gas price is like 4 bucks in LA now...CRAZY~ I yawned and then my jaw got a bit stuck. And then I tried to close my mouth and a loud crack sound and a bit pain came from the joint. The left side. I never experienced anything like this. My TMJ are not th...

No braces pic yet. But here is my pre-treatment record pic. Yay! I didn't think my teeth were that bad. Not picture perfect teeth. But not super vampire or not super buckteeth or anything. That was the reason why I didn't get braces when I was a kid. But it was very hard to keep clean. Anyhow, byeby...