Metal Mouth Message Board

Hi Betty Bat, Me too! Missing upper canines and (at a later age than you, now 45) found out a year ago that the roots for the baby teeth were giving up the ghost and a decision needed to be made. I went with the implants, hence the braces (as I didn't have any other reasons) to make room for the imp...

I have fake teeth on both my upper canines. Braces off in January, implants in February and I should have the replacement teeth attached to the implants at the end of May/beginning of June. So, about 3 months. Even though my huge gaps are pretty much in the front, I have ended up taking my retainer ...

I didn't have my braces for too long (this time around!), about 10.5 months for tops and 9.5 months for bottom. I got retainers for both in January (earlier than I was expecting) and my Ortho said we'd finish everything up with retainers. Just had another check-up today and I have to say my retainer...

I am missing those lateral incisors as well so had braces 30+ years ago to move the canines into place, leaving the baby teeth canines in place. Flash forward to now when the roots for those baby teeth are disintegrating so I'm back in braces to make space for implants in the canine area. I have to ...

I had all four wisdom teeth extracted one week before getting braces and had no problems. The extractions went fine, no problems in healing and getting the braces a week later was no problem. Just a lot of soft food for several weeks (to avoid aggravating the extraction sites).

I have been with Dr. Richard Jacobson in Pacific Palisades (310-454-0317) since I started in February 2006. My dentist (in the South Bay) had recommended him even though he is pretty pricey and not necessarily convenient for me, but she thought that given my circumstances (trying to create space for...

Hi Always Hungry, This is my first post (lots of browsing and lots of good advise and thoughts), but I wanted to chime in since you and AttaGirl2's note were similar to mine. Like AttaGirl2's neighbor, I was missing laterals and so 30-odd years ago I had braces to move my eye teeth forward into thos...