Metal Mouth Message Board

Greetings and WELCOME to this forum! Good for you for wanting to improve your life! If you have any questions, just ask, we are here to help. Remember : hydration, wax, Bonjela and Kenalog. and it's all worth it in the long run! :lol: Painkillers before an adjustment, and employ your sense of humour.

Well, I found these two threads... Hawley Retainers -- Color Choice Typical? http://www.archwired.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=19363&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=45 and Share Your HAwley Colors http://www.archwired.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=20023&postdays=0&postorder=asc&sta...

Glad you found us here bracesonfebruaryfirst2008 ! We are here for support and advice, (but remember to use the "search function" before you start a thread, as your issue/thread topic may have already been answered/started! 8) ) As Miss Smilie posted, go to My Braces Stories and post your ...

The toothbrush is actually called "Oral B Triumph".

We were talking about Electronic Toothbrushes here http://www.archwired.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=23795 and here we were talking about Oral B Orthodontic Brushheads. http://www.archwired.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=23314 and http://www.oral-b.com/au/products/products/power_triumph.asp is the website...

I've always used Kenalog at night and Bonjela during the day. Kenalog is Triamcinolone Acetonide 1mg/g in emollient dental paste and Bonjela is Choline Salicyate 87mg/g. Using these products, the ulcer has always healed up in 2-3 days. I would still get another appointment with your dentist, as you ...

09 Aug 2006 - 11 Feb 2008. 19 months. I'm lucky that I haven't had wisdom teeth extracted (that was when I was 19!) or extractions or surgery, but, mouth ulcers are annoying. But, you just learn to deal with them, and get over it. Hydration, wax, salt-water rinses, Peroxyl, Kenalog (@ night over the...

pearls , have you ever thought of extras acting work? I had extras acting gigs in 06 & 07. I signed up with my agency first, and told them I was getting braces 9 months after I signed on with them. They didn't have a problem with it, & I was still getting work. I wouldn't put off having bra...

river wrote:yes after three years and 4 months of braces im going to be free monday 11 feb

my 1st appointment is at 9:00 and the 2nd is at 4:45 same day , wish me luck x

APPLAUSE!!! and CONGRATULATIONS!!

That's also the same day and time as my de-banding...ooooo freaky!!

Anyone else had any ligatures pop off? Yes, and I've had metal ones break off in my mouth as well. Does it affect treatment at all? Nope. As soon as it happened I called the ortho's office and they put me in straight away to get it replaced. I always drop everything and get my tail into my ortho's ...

Mee tooooo! Can I say I feel the same way? Like you have something else attached to you, and just want the BLOODY things off you, and your teeth feel soooo heavy. The only relief I get is pulling a whole strip of wax off and stretching the moulding the strip across your brackets/arch-wire. Sometimes...

...and it's another one starting on a journey of self improvement!!

It was great for you that you didn't need any extractions or surgery.



Please give us updates and pics as it's great to hear about what everyone else is doing. Remember, ALL of us are here for help and advice

That's another one of us packed off!!

Enjoy your new life naked!

Kodius Champion , you have come SUCH a long way!! That would have been such a surprise for you! Your teeth look FABULOUS!! Thankyou for posting pics of retainers, as when I get mine off on 11 Feb (YIPPIE), ortho will take moulds and make retainers for me in his surgery. That's what they look like.....

And your journey is ALMOST over!!!