Metal Mouth Message Board

I have had my braces off for 3 years and still wear my retainer at night,2 or 3 times a week. I will always wear it for as long as I have teeth! My lower retainer is bonded and I take special care to clean around it so I dont develop problems. And my teeth have remained picture perfect! I am also po...

I agree, definately get a second opinion. Your ortho should be able to give you more than one referral. Mine gave me several, and let me choose. My insurance gave better coverage with the one in Seattle,and I was very impressed with how well my ortho and my surgeon worked together even from 3000 mil...

Hi, thanks so much for your post. I had my upper brought forward and widened, and my lower set back . When I woke up from surgery I was numb up to my eyeballs. It took a couple months for it to die down but then a good 8 months to come back to the point it is now. And I was just beat for a couple mo...

Thanks,Lucy, for your reply. It's good to know that there could still be hope. It is true, nerves are very strange. I do get those electric shock feelings across the roof of my mouth if I blow my nose too hard! So there has to be some sort of life going on in there! On the positive side, since this ...

Hi ...I'm new here and have a question. I am 3 years post double jaw surgery and even tho my results look good, I am bummed that I never regained feeling in my upper palate and part of my upper lip. The roof of my mouth and my gums stayed mostly numb,I'd say I have about 15% feeling. I also often ha...