Metal Mouth Message Board

[quote="djspeece"]Congrats and welcome to the club! It will take a couple of weeks for your cheeks to toughen up a bit, but you should use dental wax liberally. My first reaction was to gob it on, but as it turns out sometimes less is more effective in terms of mass. Most of us had difficu...

Two days ago I had braces put in... ceramic upper/lower-excluding metal brackets for the back few teeth. It's somewhat painful to eat anything - chewing particularly hurts. In your experience, when does the initial pain after getting braces subsides? Will eating always be this difficult? I dread eat...

Two days ago I had braces put in... ceramic upper/lower-excluding metal brackets for the back few teeth. It's somewhat painful to eat anything - chewing particularly hurts. In your experience, when does the initial pain after getting braces subsides? Will eating always be this difficult? I dread eat...