Metal Mouth Message Board

Hey Kim, I had my tonsils out when I was 16, and it was certainly no fun. I didn't eat anything for a week. Although your surgeon might be better than mine. My surgeon somehow changed the way my soft pallette acts when he did the procedure. I haven't been the same since. I would be prepared with som...

Optimistically, I will be 23. Worst case, I will be 24. Though the ortho has said that we are at least halfway there and I am 1yr, 3 mos into treatment.

Thanks to both of you for the responses! I am definitely feeling the new wire today. Although if memory serves, steel wires are a whole nother step. It was a lot more difficult to get into the buccal tubes on the molar bands, and I felt the pressure right away. For the time being, I am going back to...

I would like to update my post slightly. I just had an adjustment today. Obviously, my ortho does not like my tongue piercings, and he lectures me every time I go in there. Anyway, he told me last time that he's going to watch very closely just so he can be the first to notice "when" my gu...

Hello everyone, Since I so often post when I am feeling down, I felt the need to post something good for once. I had an adjustment today (I don't know what number as I don't keep track that way). I was given a stainless steel wire on top with 2 powerchains. One is a superchain going from 1-1, and th...

Well, after seeing the first responses to this question, I am not sure I want to speak up. However, in the interest of helping a fellow braces wearer, I will do it anyway. I currently have 3 tongue piercings. I have a central tongue piercing as well as venoms behind that. I payed very close attentio...

Hey everyone. Naz, I was never told that my lower might need surgery. I think if they had told me that I might have just said forget it. As it was, my insurance did not cover the SARPE saying that it was not medically necessary. So, last year, we spent $11,000 on my mouth alone. Not to mention that ...

Hello everyone, I am sure, much like scienceteacher, that you will not recognize my username. I had surgery done 2 days before Thanksgiving of 2006. I expanded, then thought I was finished. In March, the ortho made me expand again. That was painful. I had to break my jaw again as it had started to f...

Haha, KK, I was wondering if you would comment about the grape ones. Now we just need to convince the company to make single flavored packets as well as the mixed one

Jean

Hello all, Well, I have gone through half a dozen containers of wax in a month because of a pokey wire in the back, and I have no way of getting to my ortho to get more. So, I went to Walmart as I had seen mint flavored wax there before. I found the mint flavored wax packages, but there was also som...

I paid out of pocket as my insurance would not cover the procedure. As of November of last year, I paid $6000 for general anesthesia while doing the porcedure in office. My doc would not do local in any way. However, he knew that insurance would not pay so he gave us a bit of a discount as we were p...

Thanks so much for the responses and support from everyone! I am doing much better today :) As it turned out, I had to go and see my family doc the next day anyway, so I explained what happened and asked for some antibiotics just to be on the safe side. I really didn't want to risk an infection in m...

Thanks for reading/responding Meryaten! I know accidents happen even to the best of us. I am really not upset with the ortho at all, I am just in quite a bit of pain right now :( I guess I kind of wanted to warn others who may not have a whole lot of working room like myself. Things can happen in th...

I went in for my adjustment this aft, and all was going well. I was finally fitted for bands on my 2nd molars. Apparently, this leaves virtually no room between the last brackets and my cheeks. The assistant was unable to cut the leftover pokey wire with the usual cutters, so she asked the ortho to ...

Hello all, I just wanted to drop a quick note and let everyone know that yesterday morning I was given my palate back. After 7 months of having the expander in, it's soooo nice to eat without it! Also, if anyone is still having trouble talking/eating after a couple of months with the expander, ask t...