Metal Mouth Message Board

My ortho said that I could do the bleaching overnight, but that some people are sensitive to it and if that is the case just do it for a few hours a day. I think I will prob do that as I dont fancy waking up in pain again, I have had enough of that over the past 20 months! I am sure yours will look ...

Here are the pictures - Before - http://img387.imageshack.us/img387/3139/teeth1lj2.th.jpg After - http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4162/teeth2cv1.th.jpg I am really happy with the result. My open bite has been closed and all my teeth now touch. I am going to whiten them soon, have to wait for my c...

Hey, Yeah I am really pleased with the way my teeth look now and I am still smiling. everytime I pass a mirror I have to look at them. still cant believe that it is over. People at work today keep saying that I look different today, but they cant work out what it is. I am feeling happy and positive ...

Hey, Well after 20 and a bit months the braces are finally off. I just can't believe it, it feels so wierd and I cant stop smiling. I was in the ortho's chair for about an hour and a half. I have a bonded retainer top and bottom and I pick up my clear retainers next wednesday. The removal wasnt as b...

Well in about 20 hours time the braces should be off! I dont think I have been this nervous about anything in my life, just a bit scared that my ortho will change his mind (ever the pessimist me!), I dont think he has any reason too, I am happy with how my teeth look now, I just hope he is as happy ...

I had an open bite which was mainly to do with sucking my thumb as a child and also because I have an upper tongue thrust. None of my front teeth met when I closed my mouth only two of my back teeth met and I was able to stick my tongue out of the gap at the front (quite a party trick!). My open bit...

hey, Thanks for the good luck ken Mik3y - Yeah I am really excited but I dont think that it will really hit me until it is all over! Bekah - Thats really good that those dreams prompted you get your teeth looked at, it will all be worth it in the end - good luck! I havent had anymore dreams about my...

hey Ken,

Yeah I hope those dreams don't come true either and were just dreams and not premonitions!

Finger crossed that by this time next week they will be off!

Lau xx

Well 9 days to go until they come off. Seems so close yet still so far away. Today was my 20th brace anniversary. I am still really worried that I will turn up on my de-bracing day and he changes his mind, I am even having anxiety dreams about it! I had a dream that I turned up at my ortho and he tu...

2 weeks and 3 days till they come off......feels like the longest 2 weeks and 3 days ever!!!!!!!!!!

Lau x

Hi Joney,

Thanks! Fingers crossed you get your removal date for May soon. Yeah it is a nice feeling, but still can't quite believe it, dont think I will until they are finally off. Am still scared that I will turn up and he will say he has changed his mind! I am so pessimistic!

Lau xx

Hey, Lionfish - thanks for putting my mind at rest about the bonded retainers, I scared myself a little by reading people's experience of bonded retainers (some werent good), but I am going to take your comments on board and hopefully it will be the same for me. Bracedagain - Yeah i will deffo make ...

Hey, Just got back from my 20th adjustment today and it was good news! He looked at my teeth and he said the "time had come", he said that they weren't perfect (then again who is in life!) but it was the best they were going to be (and I can tell you I can feel a lot of difference since th...

Hey, I know just how you feel. at my last adjustment my ortho said it was nearly done and that said that if all is good at my next adjustment (beginning of march) they can come off at the one after that, so hopefully that is the beginning of April. By then I would have been braced for about 20 month...

I have ceramic uppers and lowers with clear ligs and I drink everything that has potential to stain, including coffee, through a straw. It seems odd at first, but I have been doing it for so long I have forgotten what it is like to drink these kind of things normally. I always carry a supply of stra...