Metal Mouth Message Board

I'm so sorry to hear about your experiences so far. That must be terrible. Hopefully the worst is behind you and once you finally get braced and start to notice improvements you will feel better about your treatment. Just remember that's why this board is here - for support through this process. Goo...

I'm in week 5 right now. I first noticed a little bit of movement at around week 2, but the most noticable movement came during week 4. For a couple days there, I was seeing changes every day. Hang in there, and like the previous poster said, don't get discouraged. Everyone is different, and I know ...

I had the first adjustment yesterday. It went well, they reattached all the brackets that fell off and I finally got my full wires! I'm happy because I saw a lot of improvement on the uppers in the final week before my adjustment. :D Here are some progress pics... (Sorry if I gross anyone out with t...

Whoops, I mean I tried NOT to pass out ....

I'm so glad you wrote this! I also had four premolars extracted five weeks ago. I had a very similar experience, except with me I lost it after they took out the first tooth. I felt very faint, and started to black out, so they had to bring out the oxygen mask and let me sit there for about ten minu...

Ok, I was finally able to take a picture of my new braces. This pic is about two weeks after the wire was put in. My front teeth are still a little sensitive, but it's not stopping me from eating! The only movement that I can notice is that the bracket on my right lateral is no longer sitting up aga...

I also got the Rotadent from my ortho and I love it. The brush heads that are made specifically for braces work soooo well, they get into all the spaces under the wire and work very well to clean my crowded lower teeth. As a plus - my husband's dentist recently recommended that he use the rotadent, ...

I am finally braced! :D I went in to the ortho on Monday morning, and after waiting in the waiting room for over an hour, they brought me back and bracketed the bottom teeth. The ortho started to sit me up and said to come back in another month and they would put the wire on. I protested because the...

Update.... Sadly enough, I didn't get my braces on when I thought I would. They just fitted the molar bands and then sat me up and said I was all ready to go. I was confused because I thought I was going to get the whole shebang, but no such luck... So I sulked back up to the receptionist, who made ...

Good news! After multiple frustrating calls to the ortho's office (which is also my dentists office - they just do ortho on Fridays and certain Mondays). I finally got a hold of a sympathetic receptionist. She told me I didn't need to come in to have the bracket replaced since I don't have the wire ...

Ok, here are my before pictures and my lonely brackets... these are kind of embarrassing! They seem to look a lot worse in the pictures than I thought. I guess I got pretty good at hiding the crookedness when I smiled. :) http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/7302/1001626small3ow.th.jpg http://img81.im...

Thanks for the reply. I'm now dealing well with the brackets rubbing my mouth. Just a little wax on the front two at night. It's good to know they're worse without the wire. I made an appointment on Friday to get the fallen bracket re-attached. I'm calling them later today to see if they have enough...

Hello I just got my top brackets and spacers on Friday (two days ago!) and it has been quite interesting... A little background: I'm 23, recently married, and working in a hospital as a health educator. I was one of those kids who always wanted braces. Every time I went to the dentist, they would tr...

Me too! I just registered here - seems like a great support group. I went in for my consultation on Feb 10th, and once I agreed to go ahead with the treatment, they scheduled me for my next appointment on Feb 17th. When I asked what was going to happen at the appointment, the receptionist said "...