Metal Mouth Message Board

Thank you all so much!
It's made me feel so much better for you guys to say my teeth are looking great. As you can see, I have gaps that still need closing up :/
I also forgot to add, I'm 16 >.<;


Yes, my username is from the Dir en Grey song; KRCube ^___^
Thanks again! *huggles y'all*

I've decided to come out and show you guys just how well my teeth are coming along. Unfortunately, I have no pictures of my teeth before I started my treatment, but to paint a brief picture, I had a 7.5mm overbite, 1 inwardly turned/twisted lateral and a gap between my two upper front teeth big enou...

Believe me when I say things will get much better! :D It might not feel like it, but give it another day or so, and you'll be fine and dandy. I recently had elastics and powerchains put on last Tuesday, and I thought the pain would never go, until it had eased off completely on Saturday morning. Jus...

As everyone else has said, I got no stitches with my molars when they were removed, but they've healed up just fine. The only bad thing that happened to me, was that the dentist had left a tiny fragment of bone inside of the gum, so I ended up with a rather angry looking gum/extraction site. In the ...

All I can say is, if you can deal with having wisdom teeth removed, then I think you'll be just fine with pre-molars! :D I had 2 pre-molars, and 2 regular molars removed in one go. Sure, it felt a bit achey, but nothing I couldn't handle. You may want to get some gauze or something though, because m...

I got mine 6 months in, and some people get them on day 1. I was also pretty nervous about elastics, so what you're feeling is pretty normal. They've worked a treat for me, hope they do the same for you. They take a bit of getting used to, but on the whole I've not found them to hurt. They certainl...

Wow, am I glad I found this forum! And I'm so darn glad to have read that having elastics put on usually means that you're nearing your time with fixed braces :D I'm having elastics put on tomorrow, and I'm kinda worried... do they hurt? I'm sure they'll be a bit uncomfortable with the all pulling/t...