Metal Mouth Message Board

So the end is near...Wow hard to believe it has been 19 months since I have been braced! I am due to be debanded this Friday the 29th of June. TWO DAYS!! Exactly 19 months to the day I was initially braced. I am so excited I literally haven't been able to sleep at all this week :roll: I cannot wait ...

Hi Denny, It could be possible that the enamel on your teeth isn't strong enough to hold the glue? At my initial consult with my ortho he did mention that there might be some trouble with the brackets staying on my teeth because apparently some of the enamel had eroded away on some of my teeth. Thin...

aka, I had two consultations before I got braces. My first consult quoted me $4800 for braces with a 5% cash discount if I paid it all up front (which I had planned to do). So I went to see my second consult and told him what my first consult quoted me and he said that he would beat that price. He t...

Hi Nimo, The first couple of weeks I thought I couldn't see any movement at all with my teethe, but then I met up with a friend that hadn't seen me since I got my braces on and he said he most certainly could tell they were moving. I think because you look at them everyday and study them that you do...

Thanks for the replies guys, it is kind of comforting to know that I am not the only in agony here. Well it has been a couple of days since my adjustment and things have settled down a bit, but my left canine is really bothering me and it feels kind of numb. In all of the excitement of my whining I ...

ugh, this kinda sucks :( I thought I had prepared myself for this. You know, I have been browsing this site for a while before I got braced, and I thought "this won't be so bad" but YOWSER, HOLYCOW BATMAN@#! But, the good news is my tech and ortho are great, they totally empathize with me ...

Or maybe it is my head. Ouch. I just had my 3rd adjustment. They are trying to bring my left canine down that was protruding out and OY does it hurt. Wow. the technician took off my wire and replaced it with a new one and as soon as she tightened it like she was tieing a shoe lace my tooth felt like...

thanks for the well wishes karen, my teeth feel sooooo much better today :dance: Jade, I have full metals on all and the main reason I did not go for the ceramics was because they looked to me twice as big as the metals, I just didn't think I could handle all that bulk. I have a very low profile job...

I had my first adjustment today and all I can say is ouch! I have adjusted pretty well to my braces, overall, and things were going pretty smoothly until today :( My ortho took off my wires and the ligs and it felt so strange! My teeth felt so loose, I literally thought they were all going to fall o...

If you are unhappy with the service and treatment you have received I firmly believe that a letter should have been written. Good for you. Bad service seems to be of the norm lately and the reason we get bad service is because consumers don't make it known to businesses that they are receiving poor ...

Hi Marzipan, I just got back from getting my molars banding and owwwww they hurt. Yes they are rubbing my tongue and cheeks, and digging into my gums as well. And I thought the spacers were bad, these are worse! But the upside is the tech who put them in said this would happen, she said they will re...

Well that sounds like a very personal problem. That happened to me once, and I just went to the auto supply and repaired it myself

Hi Shawnie Well I have only been braced for 3 days so I am finding all of this hard to get used to, although I can eat now without thinking I am going to swallow a bracket or something. But yes my uppers are VERY annoying compared to the lowers, maybe it is because the upper front teeth are larger t...

Hi Shawnie, Thank you for your input, I really do like the way the ceramics look also, and tossed around that idea for a while, but in the end I knew I would be just as happy with the metals over the ceramics. I am not really liking the way the metals are pushing out the area above my upper lip (It ...

Munkymann, I just got my braces 2 days ago and I was fitted with one of those "backplates" (I think). It is like a plate that is shoved up behind your two front teeth and mine have two prongs that stick out toward my tongue so my tongue is always catching on it..ooowwww...I have not been a...