Metal Mouth Message Board

I was inspired by my 10 year old daughter. She had a pallet expander with prongs for tongue thrust put on almost two years ago. After the space was made, they put brackets on her 4 upper front teeth to bring them in. The process lasted 9 months. She'll need more braces after she loses all her baby t...

I am dying to give my husband a big fat kiss, not just a peck on the lips. I did try to eat stuff I would miss the day before my braces, but I didn't think to give my husband one last great kiss :cry:. I can't wait to get these off so I can do that. Food wise, Ritter Sport with hazelnuts without bei...

I have ceramics on the upper with clear ligs. After reading all the staining threads, I was paranoid about it. I love my coffee in the morning and I drink red wine with dinner almost every night. I also drink green tea during the day. It has now been four weeks since they came on, and I would say th...

It was $500 more than regular braces. If it truly cuts the time from 24-30 months to 12-14 months, it is definitely worth it to me. I did look into invisalign but were told by two orthos that my end result would not be as good. I have two teeth tilting inward and invisalign can supposedly only move ...

I had my brackets put on last week, ceramics upper and metal lower. The wires and metal bands came on today. The naked ceramic brackets were pretty hard to deal with for me since they are bulkier and I felt like they stuck out so much more than the metal. I kept thinking that I should have gone all ...

They do a 3D scan of your teeth and make a computer image of your mouth. Then the ortho can move your teeth on the screen to where he and you want them. The computer then figures out how to get from here to there. Then this all goes to somewhere in TX where a robot makes all the wires needed. It is ...

I am 39 years old and has needed braces since my mid twenties for crowding. I grew up in Sweden where braces were not really used unless you had major problems. My teeth were fairly stright until my wisdom teeth started to move things around (early twenties). It took me until this past December to f...