Metal Mouth Message Board

Welcome aboard! Isn't that taste something else? The assistant said, "This is going to taste bad" and I told her I'd heard it was horrible. She said, "it's worse" and man, was she right! Good luck with eating! I think at first we all become a little obsessed with mirrors and food...

I think what you're going through is normal, too. I'm a week in and I'm just starting to eat harder foods. It's still sore when I push on my front teeth and they feel like they shift just a little when I do -- it's a weird feeling, but I'm hoping it just means things are working. The first morning I...

If you like crusty bread, don't forget to pig out on it before you can't for awhile! I so miss fresh hot sourdough french bread. Yeah, you can tear it into small pieces and eat it that way, but it's just not the same... :? A week in I'm finding I can chew a lot more things, which is very nice. But I...

My ortho steered me pretty quickly to metal at my first consult. Since I wasn't that concerned about how they looked and didn't want to pay any extra or worry about staining, I just went with metal. When I wore them 30 years ago as a kid, they put bands around ALL your teeth -- so just having the li...

flowertowngal - You get to eat popcorn? My ortho pretty much forbid it! I'm jealous! :D I've got these wonderful hooks on the backs of my top molar bands, so I'm pretty sure that elastics are in my future since, as someone else wrote, I don't exactly plan on hanging ornaments off them. Actually, the...

The first Ortho promised a lot more and had pictures, but they weren't very nice when I asked questions so I am going with the 4th ortho who nicely answered questions, but didn't promise the world. Sounds to me like you picked the best one! It sure wouldn't be good if they promised more than they c...

Good luck! I just went through it last week so the memory is still very fresh! The worst part was the taste of the bonding stuff they use. I'd heard it was bad but it was worse than I heard. Not so much a taste as a sensation that your tongue is being eaten away! The good news was that they let me r...

I just have tops right now, but they put the bottom bands on the back molars on at the same time they did the tops. Like Eaglesoaring, my ortho was concerned about my bite knocking into the bottoms. I was a little disappointed at first because my bottom teeth are way worse than the top, but after re...

My ortho told me the spacers are usually the worst part. They were definitely uncomfortable, and I was always worried about one coming out and accidentally swallowing it. Though thankfully that didn't happen. I was really sore in the back so I had to chew with little tiny bites on my front teeth. Th...

Try ice cream or frozen yogurt or some other yummy, creamy comfort food that you don't have to touch with your teeth at all. I've eaten so much ice cream since the spacers went in, then the braces a couple of days ago that I'm joking I'm going to be the one that gains weight instead of losing it :D ...

Thanks so much for all these great suggestions! Wax and salt water have definitely become my best friends! How can something as small as a tiny hook be as big a pain?? I thought I had enough scar tissue built up from the first time around in braces (30 years ago) and from a bad habit of chewing on t...

Congrats! I've had mine on for 5 days now and I'm so looking forward to that cheeseburger. I took my first bite of food with my front teeth last night (it was soft, but hey, it's the first I've been able to touch anything with the front teeth in 4 days!). I was so thrilled! Wednesday night will be m...

I just joined the braced club yesterday! 42, crowded teeth as a result of losing that retainer YEARS ago. So I'm starting the adventure all over again. So far, just the top wired and bottom rear brackets. Looking at a 2-year sentence, including elastics -- hence I've got a mouth that feels full of l...