Metal Mouth Message Board

Hi Rhonda, welcome to the club and I hope it all works out for you. I'm sure it will get easier for you as time goes by. I can sympathize with you as I'm 45 and it's usually only kids who are in the office with me.

Hey gang, been a while since I posted but here's a little update. It's been five months and five updates. The underbite is being corrected - it's not easy to tell from the pictures but it is getting better. Plus, the floss goes between the teeth easy now. There's a big gap opened up on the right sid...

Glad to hear it's going well! Give us an update when you can.

Hi and welcome to the forum. Here's wishing you good luck with your treatment! :-88 There are a couple of threads in the "How Do I" section that talk about taking pictures and placing them in the forum: http://www.archwired.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=11746 http://www.archwired.com/phpbb2/v...

Hi Polgara and welcome to this forum. Here's to everything going great in your process! :-88 Take some pictures if you get a chance. Even if you don't post any they're great to be able to look back on and see the changes and improvements. I also broke a couple of the rubber spacers and they ended up...

Congratulations, Kim! Your bottom teeth look great.

Welcome to the forum!

You've come to the right place - lots of good information here. I'm sure this will help you on your journey. Good luck and let us know how it's working out.

Congrats! any pain from the first adjustment? Yesterday there was a little pain from one or two teeth but fortunately they don't hurt today. The upper teeth are fairly straight already and the treatment so far is just to correct the under bite. When I get the lower arch I'm likely to have a bit mor...

Just a quick update: had my first adjustment today. All they did was put a stiffer top wire. Took about 10 minutes which was a lot less time in the chair than I spent driving and waiting in the front room.

May it always be so easy!

Hey Karen, you should get a sticky post at the top of this forum with info about the salt water rinses. Then you could link to it and save yourself some typing.

Hey Steve, your 102-day progress looks great! I hope my lower teeth do so well.

At least the currency values for Australian, Canadian, and U.S. dollars are in the same ballpark. I get $4000 Canadian to be $4300 Australian and $3400 U.S. Oh, and good luck with whatever treatment plan you choose, eternitybc. Your teeth don't look too bad at all, but then I'm an engineer not an or...

Hi Patricia. Congratulations on starting your ortho treatment. I'm sure you're going to like the results. At least your teeth already look nice and white! :D We'll look forward to seeing your progress in the months to come. I've read about metal spacers here, so people do get them. Not sure about th...

Will: I wasn't expecting this, but there's nothing on my second molars. Only my first molars were banded. Is this pretty normal? Hey Will, good luck with your treatment! Your story sounds a lot like mine as I have bands only on the second molar, top and bottom. http://www.archwired.com/phpbb2/viewto...

Thanks for all the responses. It's great to have a forum to discuss these things. :-88 ... Also soft drink was fine ... as long as I followed it with water and didn't brush my teeth straight away. That's an interesting comment. Soft drinks are OK as long as you DON'T brush right away? Why is that? I...