Metal Mouth Message Board

Things are going somewhat better. I getting used to the feel of everything. Thanks for all of ya'lls encouragment and advice. Thanks especially to KK and the advice about the curry. I don't eat much curry, but I eat a LOT of tomato products (pizza, sphagetti, lasagna, goulash etc), and many other 's...

:D When I was thirteen, I was supposed to get braces but the ortho told me I was going to have to have 2 surgeries to correct my bite and gap. So my parents said, too expensive you need college instead. So 12 years later, I returned to the ortho just to see if anything had changed with my bite (gap ...

Congrats on cutting deal with your ortho! Mine gave me 25% discount b/c my husband got his braces at the same place. And yes, spacers do hurt, ache, and throb!!! I hope yours are easier than mine; the tech couldn't do it, she had to get her boss to put them in. My suggestion...ibuprofen and REALLY s...

I got my spacers in on Tuesday, and WOW do they still hurt!!! Each day they seem to hurt just a little bit more than the day before. I really don't mind the 'sensation' of something between my teeth, but the constant ache and throb is just awful. My husband warned me that this would be rough, someti...