Metal Mouth Message Board

ack! I'm am getting grafts done today at 2:30 and I am so scared!!! I am having 4 bottom teeth done!! i had the surgery done about five years ago. now of course it does hurt AFTER the surgery, like the night of, but the procedure itself isnt too bad. they used local anesthisia so i was awake the wh...

well, now i feel stupif. this just reveals how clueless i am. i think ive confused overjet with overbite. it's the overjet that's been changing most. my two front teeth have been crowded by the other teeth and have been moving forward. i remember my orthodontist measuring the protrusion and saying i...

well i had buck teeth when i was a kid, but that was corrected when i had braces as a teen--but then i failed to wear my retainer and now, 20 years later, my teeth are messed up again. the last two orthodontists i saw said four teeth would need to be extracted (one in each quadrant). i have a cousin...

thanks, and all the best for your surgery! actually, now that i think about it, currently, this is the FOURTH time i am going to visit the orthodontist again, since 2001. ive KNOWN i need braces all that time, and as recently as last year, braces was the treatment prescribed. one orthodontist did sa...

i had 4 wisdom teeth yanked. youre awake one minute, they knock you out, and it seems like two seconds later youre awake again and leaving the clinic.

it was painful for the couple of days following, but nothing that was horribly unexpected.

When, why, and how were you first told you needed jaw surgery? Here's my story.....kind of long..... I have an overbite that has gotten bigger over the years. I had braces as a teenager, but the overbite came back.....I didnt follow through on wearing my retainer. Im 35 years old now. I saw an ortho...