Metal Mouth Message Board

Congratulations! Your braces look great I chose ceramics on the top for the same reason as you. They just suit me best. I hope you have minimal pain for the next few days.

Wow, they are looking great. That is amazing progress.

I'm not sure how to characterize why I'm doing this. It's kind of cosmetic I guess but not because I was ashamed of my smile. My top teeth are slightly turned but when I smiled no one could tell. I never had a problem with the way my smile looked to others. I smile and laugh all the time. My heart a...

Congrats on getting the spring off. I can't wait to hear how much your teeth have moved by morning.

I have 3 springs on my lower teeth. I put wax on two of them. When I had the braces put on the assistant gave me tons of extra wax and said that I would need it because I have so many springs. I took that to mean that it was fine to put wax on them. I put mine just along the bottom edge of the spring.

WOW, that is cool. It saved you a lot of days of thinking about what might happen. They look great.

For adults my ortho recommends 6 ceramic on the front top teeth and metal everywhere else. The cost is the same as all metal. I guess maybe they are a little larger if you look at them closely but they don't feel larger in my mouth. They feel the same as the metal to me. I worry about staining the l...

I worried about losing weight too. Everyone is different but truthfully the braces haven't changed my eating too much. The first 2-3 days it wasn't fun to eat but I did it anyway because I am evil when I don't eat. The 2nd day I chopped up chicken really small and just swallowed it. I do eat less be...

Yikes! That does not sound like much fun at all. I hope the pain subsides quickly.

I am worried about losing weight too. I think so far I may have lost a pound or so that I didn't need to lose in the first place. I was worried I'd lose a lot and worried about my face too. I don't think the braces help the look of a thin face either. I am able to eat now so I am holding steady and ...

Kell -- Hey, you are in NC too! Awesome! I hope you weren't near that big chemical plant explosion yesterday I heard about. I'm going to ask my ortho about the bracket-hitting on my next appointment too (March 21). I'll let you know what he says... if you find out first let me know! The bottom is m...

Congratulations! I hope things continue to go well for you. The second day was the worst for me and then every day after that has gotten better and better.

I hope that you are feeling better tomorrow. I know for me the 2nd day was the worst and then things improved every day after that. Still every day seems better than the day before. I can't put my teeth together either because my top teeth hit the bottom. It feels really strange so I try not to bite...

Congratulations! I like the lilac. I just noticed that you are in NC. That is where I live too. I also wanted to add that my upper teeth hit the brackets on the bottom too. I can't bite all the way down and it feels weird when I try. I've sort of gotten used to it and was going to wait and ask at my...

I have had a slightly different issue.. I just realized that I can't fully bite down without my top teeth hitting a bracket on the bottom teeth. As in... I can't close my bite at all! I really hope that we get used to this or that the teeth move quickly enough to stop these issues... Maybe some non...