Metal Mouth Message Board

Mine are the clear essix retainers. My dentist told me this morning that the retainer should still fit well enough, but I still want to see if anyone else has had this happen and get some other opinions.

So throughout the years my fixed retainer on the bottom has broken several different times. Tonight it broke again. I was told as long as I wear my removable retainers nightly I wouldn’t need the fixed retainer, but my question is, will my removable retainer fit differently now that the fixed wire i...

Mine are essix retainers too. I just don’t understand why they do this. My orthodontist even had me not wear any retainers at all before making the impressions so it should have been made accurate to how my bite had settled. I’m tired of feeling like my teeth don’t belong in my mouth. It’s like the ...

I’ve gotten tons of sets of retainers because I wear them out really frequently. Every time they make me 2 pairs and they always fit different. Especially the top ones. I think every pair just suctions down differently onto the impression.

​Hi, I recently had a few different sets of retainers made and it seems like everytime I wear them during the night, the next morning my teeth feel like they don’t fit together. By the end of the day my teeth move back to where they feel comfortable and the process starts over again. I’ve had 3 diff...