Metal Mouth Message Board

I have ceramic on top and bottom, as for purely cosmetic reasons I didn't want the metal ones. Being the person I am taking the plunge to be braced at 25 was a hard enough decision and I wanted them to be less noticable as possible. Most people i interact with on a daily basis have said that they di...

Congratulations - that is such good news!

Laura

Hey new metal, I was told at my initial consult that I had short roots on my two front teeth, not sure if this is the same as small roots. He said that we had to be careful with them because if anything went wrong the roots could die and I would loose my front teeth!!! how reassuring! I have no idea...

I had mine for a week, though it felt like an eternity!

Lau xx

I had spacers for a week before I had my braces put on and I have to say they are deffo the worst thing about this whole journey - so bad in fact I even considered giving up with the braces as i felt that if it was going to be this bad for the next 18 months I didn't think that I was going to cope. ...

I go for my second adjustment in 3 weeks time and have been told that i will be getting elastics to deal with my open bite.

Lau xx

Hey, I have been braced for a month and 7 days and when I first started on this journey my main problem was "what are people going to say" and will people refer to me as " you know that girl in braces!" I never gave a second thought to the cost or even the pain (though after my f...

Hey, Well I have just come back from my first adjustment. The Ortho changed my lower archwire to a silver one (which is a bit of a shock when looking in the mirror when i have had a nice white one for the last 5 weeks!), he changed my ligs top and bottom and put a wire tire on one of my top teeth. H...

I will post again once I have had my adjustment on Wednesday!
Lau xx

Hey Well I have been braced for a month now, and so far it hasn't been too bad, there have been a few sore days but that is to be expected. Had a bit of a shock when one of my brackets broke off, but after a lot of crying and panicking (you can see why i am such a drama queen!) and an emergency appo...

I have been braced for nearly 2 weeks and I had my first braces dream last nite, I was eating pizza and then suddenly my brackets and some of my teeth feel out and then the whole top set of braces including the archwire and the molar bands just fell out - I was so relived when I woke up and found th...

Good luck - hope all goes well!

Lau xx

I have ceramics upper and lower apart from the metal molar bands at the back.

Lau xx

Hi ShinySharon I am 25 from the UK and have been braced (for the 2nd time in my life) for a week now. I had a spacers in for a week too and they are deffo worse than the braces. I still feel a bit self conscious about the braces and am sure that I have a lisp, but it does get easier day by day. Good...

I am 25 and have been braced for 5 days now and feel self conscious. I am single at the moment and am worried that blokes will be put off by my braces. It wouldn't bother me if a bloke i liked had braces, cos i could see past that, but some blokes can be funny about things like that. My mates say th...