Metal Mouth Message Board

Fantastic smile!

I was going to ask for a bottom hawley instead of the bonded, but the Ortho really stressed to me that they use the bonded because no one ever wears their bottom hawley. It's bulky and it hurts, and apparently the top hawley is "a thousand times easier to wear". I'm not really a fan of how...

To be completely honest, for a while I was really worried about what they were doing to my teeth. They were just straightening and rotating one tooth a bit, but put the braces on top and bottom teeth and I had rubber bands going all over the place and gaps were opening up in places and all sorts of ...

Can these strips be used on your lower teeth if you have a fixed retainer on? I'm just afraid of it hurting the material that holds the little wire in place - I bought a box of them last night and then as I was opening the box this morning that thought occured to me and I thought, "Darn it!&quo...

If they were not flared a bit, they might be clashing with your lower teeth instead of biting together smoothly - perhaps to minimize the chances of your lower teeth getting pressure put on them and possibly shifting/rotating back? At any rate, I think they look pretty darn nifty - what a nice smile...

Wow, I agree - Dazzling is a perfect description! Congrats

What a marvelous smile!
I hope your gums are healed and giving you no more trouble.

Just had an adjustment and it has left my upper hawley kind of loose on the right side. The metal part in the back that usually snaps around your molar is lower and I bite on the metal band. My question is really just if anyone else has had this situation and will it still hold my teeth in place if ...

Is it a Hawley? I asked if I could use the denture cleaning tabs for my hawley retainer and the ortho said no because it would destroy the bonding/sauter (wow, I have no idea how to spell that!) points and something else which totally bummed me out because that's what I was counting on using and had...

Congratulations, BB, and what an awesome smile!

I saw the dentist about a month ago for cleaning, and told him my braces were coming off soon, and he mentioned that I would probably feel the urge to grind my teeth and clench a bit because of the molars shifting. He said most retainers don't hold them all in place, and that a permanent retainer on...

Cissa your teeth look great! Very smooth and like other people said an awesome natural rounded edge and gleam. And wowzers, almost five years! You deserve an award - that's a lot of painful and pokey days to go through... but so worth it, what a dazzling smile

My back top molars have fillings in them (from 1988 when I was just 10 years old!!) and I was worried, too, about the bands coming off those teeth since the fillings were so old, but they're still tip top shape after those things were wrenched off today. They mostly kind of pop the bands off, but if...

Debraced as of about noon today and I'm so very excited :dance: My top retainer will be a hawley and arrives day after tomorrow, but a permanent retainer was attached to my lower teeth very quickly after the braces came off. Honestly it's only been on a couple of hours and I hardly notice the perman...

When I got my Hawley the first time I wore braces (in my case, I had a canine tooth (upper) that kept rotating inward and it was making it clash against the lower teeth, and also made a gap there which I hated, but mostly I hated the headaches from those upper and lower teeth clashing together), I r...