Metal Mouth Message Board

Quite embarrasing to ask :oops: , but I'm not sure if anyone here had such experience before - I'm going to have a LASER treatment to remove the tiny hairs above the upper lip this saturday. I am not sure if the laser treatment will have some bad effect on the braces or hurt my teeth/gum cos the las...

I have been put on braces for ten days. The extraction of teeth before bracing and the braces did not cause any pain, and I do not have any problem of lisp. The major problem thath I've encountered is chewing/biting of food. I still stick to soft food like sponge cakes, ice-cream and congees, but I'...

Dramagyrl, I have full metal braces. I have decided to use the metal one from the very beginning cos my ortho says that it is more effective than ceremic or clear one (in the sense that the latters can be broken more easily), thus the time for bracing may be shorter for metal brackets. I don't think...

Hello everybody, this is Eva from Hong Kong. I'm really grateful to have found this website and the message board - they give me loads of info to prepare for the (hopefully) 18-month work. This is the third day since I put on my braces. There's no pain, but the little hooks from the canine braces ru...