Metal Mouth Message Board

Hi! Chupche: My speech is not really a problem anymore, sometimes after a adj. I notice that I sound a little bit funny for maybe a couple of hours. But other than that I dont think I sound any different. I told some friends of mine about my braces and said that maybe they had noticed my speech, but...

Hi! I was at my 5 th adj. today. I still have one tooth that is being really difficult and is still not attached to the archwire, but they put in a spingcoil today to make room for it. But the ortho said that next time she wanted to set a date for putting on the lower ceramics. In the beginning of t...

Hi! Thanks for all your replies!! To Katia2298, it stopped hurting after about 4 days or something like that, and then it came back for a couple of days in between. But I have seen alot of change, which is always nice :D And for the speech impediment, it was really terrible when everything was so pa...

Hi! My teeth hurt so much after I had my 3 rd adj. yesterday!!! It feels like when I got the braces, as I can`t even eat properly and there is a constant pressure on all of my teeth.... Well I hope this means movement!!! If you want to see photos, I have a blog: http://victoriaschoice.blogspot.com/ ...

Hi!! Sorry for not posting in such a long time!! Thank you KK for your engouragement!! I had my 3 rd adjustment yesterday, and my teeth hurt like h.....!!!!!! She at last attached my nr 2 tooth on my left side to the archwire with some elastic, she also changed the wire from nr 16 to a cobberwire?! ...

Hi Juniperlee! Do not worry to much.... I wanted to ripe the lingual braces off after short time as I talk a lot in my job as a ER-nurse, but you suddenly notice that words come clearer and better after a short time :D I feel with you though.... I only have my uppers, my lower ceramics won`t go on b...

I loved readling your story
You are so creative and positive! Good luck with everything and I really hope you get all the progress you wish for!!

And know that you made me smile and feel more positive by reading your story!!

I am 26!!! 30 is just around the corner (feels that way....)

Congrats!!!! It is so good that you dont have any lisp, and that your tongue isnt bothered to much!! I had a lisp for about 1 week, and my tongue still hurts sometimes (espesially after a night out...), but nothing a little wax cant help. I have had no regrets about this journey and hope that you do...

Hi! I am glad to hear that I am not the only one with a long sentence... If so I would of thought my ortho was doing something wrong. But my teeth are a mess so.... I was told 30 months of treatment time. The lower ceramics will be put on at the middle/end of the treatment. Well I have now done abou...

Thank you lionfish

Hi BlahBlah,
No, I am having ceramic bottoms, and they will not be put on before the middle/end of treatment, so about another year for that I think....

Hi! I have had my lingual uppers for about 3 1/2 months and it has been really easy. A little sluring and my tongue has had some pain... but but... My question is; Sometimes my tongue hurts from the archwire/brackets. I sometimes have to use some wax, but not alot. Sometimes the wire does not hurt m...

:D :D :D Thank you for all your replies! Well, I had my 2. adj. today!! I was looking forward to what the ortho thought of my teeth and the movement. She did not do to much, changed archwire to a stronger one, put on new ligs and lacebacks. But she did say that my second tooth next to my front tooth...

I had braces from the age of 12 to 14, (metall with headgear). Now, at 26, I have chose to do it again, estimated time 24 months.... I hated it the first time around, so I chose to get linguals on the uppers. I will have ceramics on lowers about halfway into the treatment. But I love it now :D I am ...

When I told my best friend I was getting my teeth done, she responsed with: But you had braces as a child - your teeth are fine. But what she did not remark is how terrible my teeth looked now, after my wisdom teeth came out. And they truly look terrible. I have had braces for 3 months, and just a c...