Metal Mouth Message Board

Yup, the darn food gets stuck in your darn brace and you cant get the darn thing out without poking it with a toothbrush or sometimes something as small and pointy as a needle!!!! ever get that!? GOD it drives me insane!

MY WORST THING HAS TO BE CASHEW NUTS....NO, NUTS IN GENERAL!

guys, i bet your'e all thinking i'm a ditz when it coems to dental terminology but what do you guys mean when you say overbite and underbite etc? i guess the dentists and orthodontists in the states use the proper terms with their patients and that's why you all sound like proffesionals to me. lol i...

SAVOURY: Mashed Potatoes, Lentil Soup

SWEET: Ben and Jerry's cookie dough...or any ice cream for that matter!

Cristiano Ronaldo the manchester united winger who's hot as hell had braces done sometime laste yera. he only had them briefly then they got taken off. he had a tooth that was hidden behind another tooth that needed to be braught to the front. :) so that's another celeb over here in England that som...

thanks guys your responses have been great! the only thing is i dont have teeth behind other teeth, i've just had my teeth spaced out because of extractions and now they all need to be pushed in because whilst the doc was spacing them out they protruded a little. so i guess i have the springs to nea...

what do you mean by reverse curve archwires? cos i think i might have them... i'm just not very familiar with all the technical terminology for treatments? can anyone post apicture if they have them so i know what it looks like? thanks
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hi guys, ok let me explain to you my situation.... basically in august i had 4 teeth extracted two from the top and two from the bottom, because the overcrowding was causing my teeth (particualrly the top ones) to protrude slightly, almost goofy like lol yeah sad but true, so anywayz i got the extra...

To be really blunt, and I know I will get grief for this, in many cases to the ortho you are just a mouth. That there is a live person with feelings and thoughts attached is not in their mindset when they whip off 60 patients a day. i know exactly what you mean. when i was doing my sociology degree...

i think thats what theyre called. cos i have like this wiring that the doctor twisted and twisted and twisted so that they looked like springs and i have one on the left and one on the right of my bottom jaw. just curious. i think they close up the gaps right? cos i have some gaps in my mouth from e...

this might be a really dumbass question since i'm wearing braces but maybe they use different terminology in the UK for powerchains what are they and if you guys have any pictures that would be great!
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hey there. i got my braces fitted in late august and before that they pulled out two teeth for me from the bottom and the top, so 4 all in all. now my teeth were fairly straight and in good condition but they were slightly goofy ansd protruding top and bottom, but more so on the top, so my doctor s...