Metal Mouth Message Board

I think it's pretty common to have that done while wearing braces... at least that's what I was told seeing that I'll have my braces for 1 year when I get my wisdom teeth yanked! My ortho said a bracket may pop off in the process but he really didn't think it would be a big deal (and there will be p...

It looks like some progress has been made! I go back the middle of next month to get brackets on the back teeth and new wire too... this first "Supercable" like you had in the previous pics wire is uber-flexy-twisty and doesn't really seem to do much. I'll know more about the bend in the n...

LP - here's something you might get a kick out of: Three weeks ago I got my top Speed Braces (I get my bottoms in three months... they want my tops to fill out the arch first I guess to avoid tagging the bottoms). I turn 33 in August! I found those mushroom hooks to be a bit of a pain but I used wax...

Thanks lilsisbet and KK for your replies. The site link is extremely helpful. The end result looks good. My orthodontist uses Speed-Braces so I'm kind of actually looking forward to all this. Wait... I'm 32 and am looking forward to braces?!?! That doesn't sound right!

Thanks again!

Hi and thanks to anyone who reads in advance. I'm going for 'records' this week, top braces right away and bottoms in a few months. My orthodontist wants to extract only one tooth from the bottoms (an incisor), saying that only he and my dentist would know that was the case. Is this a common approac...