Metal Mouth Message Board

susanss, i got my braces in Encino 9 months ago, and I paid a little over $7,500, so what you got quoted is about right.

welcome bradyfan. I will say everyone is different. From my experience, the first 4 weeks was a breeze. I was eating everything the next day after getting them on (i am a vegan though), and i had no pain....NONE... then the pain hit me & my tongue was raw and scraped up. I wanted to rip these su...

watewate, welcome. speak, sing out loud and say tongue twisters as often as possible. by week 4 my speech had improved drastically (minus many lovely "s" words) from doing this. good luck on your journey to a healthy smile! :-D btw, one of the tongue twisters i used to say to work on that ...

Hey Dr. Strassner,

Just sending out a LA shout out. I too am in LA, and I am being treated with iBraces by Dr. Yu in Encino. Thing are progressing great & I am getting a lot of compliments.

Best of luck to you and your practice.

I had an open bite malocclusion (i think it was a class II) as a result of tongue thrust. Luckily, I didn't have to have any teeth removed.

Hey Gilda,

Each case is different. I had 2 places shaved inbetween my bottom teeth before my linguals where applied. That was 9 months ago.

Luckily, I haven't had any problems (unless you count some O-rings popping off). Also, the only gap I have is the one the ortho created between two of my bottom teeth to create room for the teeth to move. One of them closed already.

Wow! I'm in LA (the valley) and I am the 2nd patient in my ortho's office to get Linguals and I paid less than $7,500 for both upper and lower. $10K+ is what I hear people pay for veneers and lumineers. Never heard that for linguals.

Oh, I forgot to add that I've had mine in for almost 4 months.

Hey AG, Welcome to the wonderful world of linguals. I have upper and lower linguals. I've had them for almost 7 weeks. It took me about 2 weeks to start sounding better. I didn't start to sound completely like myself until the 4th or 5th week. There are still certain sounds that sound a little funny...

Hey Jond4414, Welcome! I've had my linguals for 3 weeks and it will get better. The first day, I was mostly sore from them having to shave 0.3mm in between two of my front teeth on the bottom. So trying to bite down was painful for a week. However, hours after getting them on, I ate some soup, some ...

So today marks the 2 week anniversary of my upper and lower linguals. I haven't really had any pain at all. I only had to take an ibuprofen once. I only used the wax for 1 day. My tongue only rubs up against one side now of my linguals, but it's tolerable. I still can't say any 's' words, but I can ...

I just got uppers and lowers yesterday morning. No pain, really (only pain I have is in 2 teeth where the ortho had to shave in between to make room for shifting). Other than that, my tongue just feels extra fat in my mouth and it's kind of irritated on the sides in the back where the wires sit out ...