Metal Mouth Message Board

for me it's been an uphill battle with these torture devices! I currently have an upper RPE and a lower expander---I am fed up with dealing with this in my mouth-especially since it's been 1 1/2 years and counting and have no idea if they'll ever come off. I'm with heybartender-hate dealing with thi...

Hi, Has anybody had to wear their expander this long or as long as I have to? Just wondering if anybody is in my miserable club! Every post that I have read has been on for less time than mine.

Renee

I totally agree w/everyone-ask your Orth-they're the one's with 13 yrs+ training and schooling. I'm lucky enough to ONLY have my Orth work on my mouth-the assitants just hand him tools, wires, brackets etc.

good luck-
renee

I'm starting to feel pain from 4 elastics that I'm wearing right now...owwww! I was happy after my Mon. adjustment that it didn't feel that bad-but they take a while to "kick in". Today is the day that they're kicking in full-force. Any suggestions on how to keep less oww in my day? I've b...

thanks for the info. heybartender! I'm glad to hear it's not as major as putting it on-which I remember was no fun at all!

shoegal-I actually started a list of words that I'm going to say when it's off! It'll be a great day

Hey=that's such great news that you got that the X was taken out!! I still have mine in 1 1/2 years & counting(upper & lower)-that's so great! I will be doing a double happy dance when mine is FINALLY out. I cannot wait to have the roof of my mouth back too and eat those foods that get stuck...

I totally smile more! I used to have this habit of covering my mouth everytime I smiled or laughed. I was so self conscious of it-someone actually pointed out to me that I have braces now and don't have to cover up my mouth anymore-that I should be proud of it. Also I have to showoff how much I'm pa...

I'm so envious of you guys that have skiid Colorado and Canada!! I'm hoping to visit both places! I'm closer to the moutains of NH and VT-probably practice hills for you guys! I did notice that my mouth was more sensitive to the cold w/all this metal...but no tongue getting stuck or anything & t...

Hi doc, just wanted to let you know I got an answer to this from my orth-he said they do pop off at night & that's normal. He joked & said as long as they don't pop off and fly at someone then I'm good to go. lol!

Renee

Hi everyone! I wanted to give an update as I went to the orth's today. I asked some questions and found out that I am "along schedule to getting my braces taken out in august" That's great news! Also found out why the RPE has to stay in so long-it's done doing it's expanding job but is act...

Hi Doc! I've been having my elastics pop off at night-I check them before bed to make sure they're on right and they are on right-but when I get up in the middle of the night they've popped off! I have a tricky elastic config. where I have to hook (hook looks like a butterfly) the elastic behind the...

Hello everyone! I really wanted to thank everyone for their responses-which were wonderful! I just got off of the phone with the orth's assistant and she said that it would be no problem at all to come in to my next Mon. appt. and bring a list of questions. I didn't even have to setup another appoin...

Hi Haas, welcome! I have a RPE expander in which I think is a different kind of expander than yours. I had my braces put in 1st then about a month later the X (nickname) went in. Yes, you will get a big gap in your front teeth. Depending on how much room they need-the gap might be bigger than usual....

hi, I had 2 springs on the bottom for quite a while-probably 3-4 mos. or so-they didn't seem like they were doing anything-but then he took them out so they must've done their job :) I had 4 extractions and he was trying to move teeth into the space where the teeth were pulled. Pretty amazing how it...

Hello, I've had my braces on for about 1 1/2 years now and I'm at the stage where I'm pretty much fed up with this whole process! I see progress and I do see that certain things are getting easier like brushing and flossing. I'm at the elastics stage in my treatment and have no idea if that means I'...