Metal Mouth Message Board

Okay, time for a comparison. My first pics: http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j176/momofbrock/IMAG00222-1.jpg A pic I took today with a really bad camera phone but you get the idea... and sorry it's upside down!: http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j176/momofbrock/topteeth2.jpg And the bottom: BEFORE ...

I got a retainer to fix one tooth. Fixed the problem really fast. Maybe that would work for you!

Wow. Sugar free chewing gum? Do you have any problems getting it off when you're done with it?

I woke up today with a very nasty cold so I didn't go in to get my wire snipped. Since I don't feel like eating or talking it's not so bad today.
I'm gonna have gums of iron when all this is over with.

Well I have been wondering how it's possible that my teeth have been moving around like crazy but I've never needed to have my wire shortened. Well ouch :cry: Saturday night I noticed my cheek was getting a little chewed up but didn't think much of it. Woke up this morning and I could feel the wire ...

Well thankfully I just started talking to a lady at work that works an opposite shift as me but was staying late..... she has had every possible thing done to her mouth (the poor dear) including 4 trips to the oral surgeon. She said the little twisty tie things are to hold those teeth in place so wh...

Okay, I have a question! Well, two........ here goes..... I just had another adjustment. This time before putting my ligs on, the assistant put something on the brackets that looked like little tiny miniature twisty ties. She only did that on 4 teeth on the bottom and ONE on top. Anyone know what th...

I dont' think it's photobucket, I think the HTML imgsrc= and then the pic and then a > works for my online diary but not on this site. Can you somehow post what the HTML is that you use to put your link in? Yeah, for some reason all my pictures that I take close up are blurry or there is a big glare...

:shock: Well, it finally happened.... had to make an "emergency" trip to the ortho... I was eating steak and my wire snapped out of my molar bands and was just floatin around in the back not attached. And, of course, it happened while I was on vacation in FL!!!! Oh well, I just kept pushin...

Ooookay, I finally got on a computer! Yay! For some reason my regular HTML that I use to post pictures in my blogs doesn't work on here so I'll just post the link to the pictures: front view of raging pink ligs: http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j176/momofbrock/braceface.jpg Notice I can finally tou...

Wellllll a lady at work told me to just leave it alone and it'd wear off eventually.... said if I scrub or scrape at the glue I could have a bracket come off. Being so self conscious about my teeth I didn't listen. I scraped at it with baking soda toothpaste and a little plastic thing I had layin ar...

Hmmm it's very noticeable between a few of my teeth so I thought for sure my ortho would bring it up. Instead she looked in my mouth and said I have been doing an excellent job cleaning my teeth. :shock: I can see the line where the glue stops and my tooth starts and the staining stops at the line, ...

:x uuuuuuugh you just never realize how much you do on your computer until you don't have one! My four year old fried my motherboard so I can only pop on here at work very briefly and can't upload any pictures from my camera. :roll: I have a question! Before they put my brackets on they coated my te...

Hmmm reading your post I was just thinking "I haven't noticed my jaw pains since I got my braces on" I hadn't realized until now!!!!!!!!!

Maybe it's just cuz all my teeth hurt so I don't notice my jaw. ha ha

I've never understood what a little rubber band connecting a few brackets could do to move your teeth.... but I also can't understand how it is that my two teeth next to my extraction site are moving into my gap.... how does a hard wire make teeth go sideways???? This is all confusing and fascinatin...

I've had my braces on for 7 weeks. Not long, I know, but I'm impatient. The first step is admitting you have a problem! :lol: I'm 26 and amazed how many people (mostly my parents) say "why now all of a sudden? Aren't you a little old to be getting braces now?" :shock: I figure why go anoth...