Metal Mouth Message Board

You've had a lot of movement in your first 1/2 year - you should be very happy! Congratulations!

They're so pretty and white, they'll look fantastic once the braces come off. I see what you mean about your bite, though - I have a similar problem. I'm sure your ortho will fix it at your next adjustment. Keep us posted!

I think you can see that my front uppers have straightened out in the past few days, although I think the right front upper still hangs down a little further than the left front upper. My bite seems like it's lined up better, but the only upper tooth that touches the bottoms is the tooth on my left ...

Your teeth look fantastic, and so does your profile! I've been following your story for a while, and it's evident you've come very far in the past year and a half or so. Congratulations!

You're right, xtreme - I live with my teeth 24-7, and also I tend to obsess over them, so I am going to notice more about how my teeth look and minor details that bother me than anybody else will. I'm just struck with what-if doubts - what-if I hadn't mentioned that my tooth was sticking out too far...

I just got back to work from my appointment. My ortho at first tried to rush me through, he spent about 20 seconds looking at my teeth and then gave instructions to the assistant. But I brought up all my concerns, and made him listen: 1. upper two teeth not even: fix with a bend in the wire, should ...

I have my 6th adjustment tomorrow, only 1 month after my 5th (normally I go 2 months between adjustments). My ortho mentioned at my last appointment that I'm entering the home stretch. I have a hunch I'm getting elastics tomorrow. The photos aren't that great, I had to act fast b/c I'm all out of ba...

Your teeth look wonderful! We got braced at almost the same time - I was 12/5/05 - but your teeth look much further along than mine. I hope your de-brace date is soon!

Best of luck at work with braces! I remember when I got mine on I was really nervous because I was new to my job, I look a little young for my age/job, and I didn't want people to think I was an intern. But hardly anyone noticed - they noticed that I was kind of drawn and tired and in pain, and I mu...

You have had so much movement over the past few months! It's incredible!

Thank you everybody for your kind words. It's hard to get good shots of your own mouth! I had to fiddle around with my camera & the bathroom mirror for a while. I had my 5th adjustment this morning at 8:15. It's now 11:30pm & the gap between my top front teeth has completely closed! My ortho...

I had my wire put in at the same appointment as my brackets. There was maybe 1/2 an hour between when I got the brackets & when the wire was inserted, and I remember feeling like the brackets were going to fall off. They weren't, of course, that cement is hard! But it felt like that. But I'm sur...