Metal Mouth Message Board

As others have shared, it will get better and you'll get used to them over time. I remember that my first couple weeks were really hard and I wondered how I could ever eat anything again with these things on! But now I'm used to them and can eat most things that I could before. I've been lucky with ...

Congratulations to you and I will hope that all goes well! I found this site helpful, too, in providing advice and information when I first got my braces (Oct. 2006). Best of luck!

Hi! I use a Sonicare electric toothbrush in the mornings and a manual one at night, but everyone has different preferences. To clean between my teeth and get food out after meals, I use a Water Pik for really messy meals and Gum Go-Betweens (tiny brushes) on a more regular basis to get in between my...

My shortest interval between adjustments was four weeks. Now, I'm at 8 weeks, but my average has been 6 weeks. It seems to depend on how things are progressing and what my ortho wants to do with them next (different type of archwire, different elastics, etc.).

My ortho pointed out in initial photos that my face sagged a bit on one side. I hadn't noticed it before, but when he pointed it out I could tell. I have ceramics on the top middle teeth and stainless steel on the bottom and back teeth on the top. I had one bottom tooth in front extracted as I had s...

Hi! I'm a 38 year-old female in the Seattle, WA area (Redmond). This is my first time in braces. I got them on October 24, 2006, had one bottom tooth extracted in November 2006, and just learned at my last adjustment that they may come off as soon as January 2008 (3 months early)! Yea! Being good wi...

Hi Sarah! I just had one of my bottom front teeth extracted this past Friday (the 3rd) and now have a gaping hole in the middle of my bottom row. While it was only one tooth and not four, the extraction happened very quickly and was painless for me. I went with a local anesthetic and nitrous oxide (...