Metal Mouth Message Board

Hi all - I've been searching for this in the forum, but I've been unable to find it. If it's already been discussed, could someone please point me in the right direction. That said... I have a closed bite, and I'm the process of opening it up. In particular, my lower teeth need to move down, as it w...

Thanks to everyone who replied - I'll have my wax ready... 31 March is when the remaining teeth will get banded. I'll ask my ortho about the Spee curvature for mandibular teeth, then. BTW - that's a fantastic piece of info: I really needed to know what the final configuation is supposed to look like...

1) When I started treatment 6 months ago to open up a closed/deep bite, my orthodontist only bracketed from my first molars, forward. That is, all 4 second molars were not bracketed. My wisdom teeth/third molars were extracted decades ago. While the last 6 months of treatment have proved to be benef...

I sing professionally from time to time, and the only thing I've noticed (and that my vocal coach has noticed) is that my 'oo' [/u/] vowel isn't as pure as it was beforehand. It's a temporary thing: my upper teeth are being expanded outward while my lowers are worked on. So, my lip has more distance...

I just got my ceramic brackets on my uppers 2 months ago. My lower brackets and wire go on Dec 9. The ortho is afraid that my bite is such that without further intervention, when I bit, my upper teeth would snap the lower brackets off. So, the doctor mentioned some sort of prevention by putting some...