Metal Mouth Message Board

I believe I was very lucky. I only paid $895 for my braces, everything, followups, etc. included. HOWEVER, we are paying about $95 a month for a family dental plan. With health, dental, and vision we were paying more in premiums than our house payments last year, and my employer pays my portion. So ...

I sometimes ate with them and they ended up being masticated with the food! Yuck! I always took them off, well, almost always!

So sorry to hear about that. I did not have a problem with them. Only if I went to eat with people and realized that I had not taken them out. Sometimes tried to "pop" them out without anyone noticing, but some times I would be in a meeting and had them in, food was served, but not to me!

It is absolutely wonderful to be without! It has been 1 week and 2 days for me. Yes, it does take a week to make the Hawleys. My ortho said my teeth would move a little, but not enough to worry about in that week. Well, he said they really moved and had to make several adjustments to the retainer (a...

I wore elastics twice with my braces (Off for almost 2 weeks.) and was told to change them once a day. What did the ortho say?