Metal Mouth Message Board

Thank you, DM, for your posts. I have read every one of them and truly enjoyed hearing about your journey thus far. I'm headed for the SARPE shortly and then some other jaw surgery (or surgeries, who knows?) and I have become a little more calm as a result of reading your story. It is a great comfor...

When I first had braces in middle school, I played saxophone and remember well putting a beautiful strip of red wax across my braces to help with the discomfort. I also remember a darling little girl who got her flute mouthpiece hung in her braces. that was funny to me, but I'm sure she didn't enjoy...

Got surprised with spacers in on Jan. 16th, but I won't be in full metal gear until Feb. 1. Guess I just missed it. It probably would have been earlier, but I had to wait for the Jan. 31 payday to find the down payment on this equipment. I get to have a few surgeries in the future, too, so I'm just ...

Now we got a beer thread goin...how 'bout that. Not much of a beer drinker myself...spousal unit tends to frown on it...but carbonization is a gift from the gods. It will be very difficulot to pass on the Coke (I'm in GA, so every carbonated beverage is a "coke".) Just like the way it clea...

Never posted to a board...never kept a journal...but it seems this could be a bit therapeutic, so here goes... I had braces for 4 years as a child, but when the ortho started talking about cutting out a piece of my tongue and breaking my jaw, Mommy said, "No way,"" and the braces came...

I'm right there with ya, Blue. I got the lovely blue spacers by surprise on Monday and have a couple of surgeries looming in the next year or two. First is the SARPE which I'm feeling better about after reading the stuff on this boad. The next is a Le Fort - moving the upper jaw forward. I'm none to...

Hey, MMG! New guy posting here and I had to tell you I had quite the chuckle reading your posts with tina and her "boy"! Happy to hear things are on the way. I'm headed for a little SARPE and Le Fort in the next year or two and love this message board. I wish I had thought about that eatin...