Metal Mouth Message Board

I'm normally a lurker but after my visit to the ortho today, I'm a bit steamed and need to vent and get other opinions... Let me start by saying I've gone through the foster system as far as orthos go (3 in the last 3 years, courtesy of the office I go to, for various reasons). The last one I had, h...

Try Carmex, too... You can find it at a lot of grocery stores and pharmacies, and it's got salicylic acid to help heal and menthol to cool the pain from rubbing... plus it work wonders for lip balm. Just gotta make sure you try to pat-dry the area by the sore before rubbing it on so it sticks.

Mine's been in spurts... the first wires hurt and I noticed a lot of movement, the second ones I thought "gee, this isn't so bad", hardly any pain but hardly any movement, then the third visit they put a wire in my lowers that felt like it was the size of a coat hanger, threw on a power ch...

Got a mouth full of metal and don't taste it at all. (Damon brackets, plus a tongue stud.) I was just recently on an antibiotic that innocently said in the side effects, "bad taste in mouth"... that equaled a very bitter taste that would wake me out of a codeine-induced slumber, usually on...

I'm posting this because I tried to look up this topic in the search, and nothing turned up... Has anyone ever gotten a cracked/fractured tooth from the pressure of the teeth moving?? Mine hasn't, but I'm curious what the chances of that happening are. I broke a bracket off one of my front bottom te...

I second JC and dollface, you deserve some serious credit for being 15 and doing the legwork on prices, types, etc... Speaking from the standpoint of someone who's had both ceramic and self-ligating braces (long story, don't want to veer off-topic with details)... The self-ligating ones (damon brace...