Metal Mouth Message Board

I ride horses and I have a persistent, nagging fear that one of them is going to whack me in the face with their head. Of course, it has happened before, but never while I had braces. :P 5 or 6 years ago, a friend of mine had her braces go completely through her bottom lip when her pony stopped at a...

What I don't understand is why the ortho wanted to extract NINE teeth when your ealier treatment had managed to get such good results with keeping all your teeth? That just sounds really excessive to me. It sounded excessive to me too!! I have a vague recollection of my original orthodontist wantin...

I've always had bad teeth. Well, thats not true. When I was really little, my teeth were perfect; I suppose that all of those teeny baby teeth fitting together perfectly in my mouth should have been a tip off to my parents that the adult teeth sure as heck weren't all going to fit. I had orthodontic...