Metal Mouth Message Board

well today is my 1 year brace anniversary. :lol: Can't believe it, seems like only yesterday I started all this with the tears and the trauma (I still have those sometimes on my down days I have to admit). Hopefully I only have 6 months to go. On one hand it doesn't seem like there is long to go, on...

Hey, Today was my 12th adjustment. The Ortho said its looking nice. No changes on my upper arch just new ligs. On my bottom arch my Ortho removed the auxcillary wire that I had resting on the top of my brackets along with several springs (only have 2 springs now) and elastics ties - it feels amazing...

Hey,

Thanks for the support. Elastics haven't been too bad yet, so hopefully they will continue to stay that way.

Lau xx

Hey, Well today was my 7th adjustment. Nothing done to my upper arch just new clear ligs. On my bottom arch he bent the second wire that i have resting at the top of my brackets a little, so now it feels tighter, and he repositioned by elastics ties that I have, and changed my ligs - so now at the m...

Welcome Mike,

Its nice to have another UKer on the board and an all ceramic one at that.

Lau xx

I drink a lot of things through straws to prevent staining, I always have a supply with me, it brings no end of amusement to my mates when I reach into a bag and produce a straw for my drinks no matter where we are! I have an open bite, which is due to an upper tongue thrust and some mild crowding o...

I have read a lot about slower treatment times etc but my ortho never mentioned this to me when he showed me the options, full metal, full ceramics or the lingual braces. He just said that it was up to me to choose. I would have like to go for the lingual ones but it they were way out of my price ra...

Hey Drama Queen Daisy (Great minds think alike!) :) It is incresingly unusual to find someone with ceramics top and bottom, I was never offered anything different so I assumed if people choose cermaics that had them on both arches! I am finding the cermaics top and bottom fine, apart from the usual ...

Hi,

Nice to see another UK person in their 20s taking the plunge with braces. I am 26 and currently 9 and a half months into my 18 month sentence with ceramic braces top and bottom.

Hope the xrays and stuff go ok

Lau xx

Hey, Well today was my 10th adjustment. My ortho said that there was improvement. No major changes, just took off the elastic wire I have attached to my bottom arch spring things and tied some new wire on. Still have to wear the elastics that I was told to wear at my 9th adjustment, and as usual the...

Well today is my 9 month anniversary and if all is going to plan I should be at the halfway stage in my treatment. At the moment it feels like I am now standing at the top of the hill and the next 9 months I will be slowly climbing down to the bottom and when I get there I will be braceless!

Lau xx

Hey, Well another month has flown by and I am coming up to (what I hope is) the half way point - on 25 April I will have been braced for 9 Months - on one hand it feels like an eternity and on the other hand the months have just flown by. Anyway todays adjustment - No changes to my bottom arch. The ...

Hi, Just got back from my 8th adjustment. Not very eventful. The Ortho just tied some elastic wire to my bottom arch to move a couple of teeth, changed my top ligs (I really wanted my bottom ligs changed too, but as there is so much wire and elastic wires down there he said it wasn't possible. They ...

I drink everything through a straw whether it be tea, coffee, fizzy drinks it is great as I don't stain any of my clear ligs. I always carry straws with me when out and about. And it appears that it is not just brace wearers that do this - the actress Billie Piper also drinks her coffee through a st...

Hi, Audition went ok, I think, didn't even think about my braces while I was doing it - so thats good - just gotta wait and see if I get picked to go on! All the new stuff on my bottom arch isn't as bad as I thought it would be, it was just me being my usual drama queen self, worrying about things w...