Metal Mouth Message Board

Well, the day is tomorrow, and I am feeling slightly aprehensive and am so grateful that I have piner08 there and going through it the same as I am. It is really helping me to know that someone else is going through it within the 24 hour period. The finality of it hasnt really set in that I will be ...

good luck, and keep us posted!

Dont hit me, but for surgery AND braces, it cost me 550 dollars

I am booked in to have lower jaw surgery on the 30 March. Would anyone be able to give me tips and advice for how to deal with the physical and emotional aspects of the surgery as I am truly scared and am terrified of pain? Even little hints would help http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/d/4;14;4/s...

I am booked for surgery for the 30 March 2007.

Would anyone be able to give me tips and advice for how to deal with the physical and emotional aspects of the surgery as I am truly scared and am terrified of pain?

DONT take it off, that happened to me, but it was a saturday and the monday was a public holiday! keep it relatively clean until you can make an EA (emergency appt)

Welcome to bracehood, Hope it isnt too painful for you.
LOTS of icecream, Thats what you need.

Corn on the cob is a nightmare, but thats all I can say.

Mine go from top Canine teeth, to top back Molar. it is so much easier going top to top than from top to bottom, well thats my opinion anyway.

I haven't lost any, but I don't need to, and I can't really lose any more, as if I did I would look anorexic, LITERALLY.

I eat just as much as I did before, Just softer foods now are on my list (I was a sucker for Preztels and Corn Chips, I still eat them occasionally, but they hurt.

My friends were like, you have braces now.. for the first week, then its just become the norm... except for one of my friends, she is bummed that she didnt get to wear braces (she loves them and is very strange), so everytime I see her I have to show her my braces.

I had an RPE and I found that after I had eaten, I inhaled/sucked the food out from it. It was tricky with museli as it got caught in my throat when I sucked it back.

Talking should return to normal soon.

This is all the help that I can offer, as I didnt use any other method

Time sure flies by, it has been 7.5 months actually

So I guess I had better give you the details on my metallic-story. I had an overbite of 13 mm, which will have surgery sometime in the next 6-8 months. From October 2005-March 2006 I had an RPE on my upper jaw to widen it. November 2005 I got my bottom braces March 2006 Got the RPE taken out then af...

I am having my wisdoms taken out during the surgery, so I will be ignorant as to which hurts more.