Metal Mouth Message Board

Your right about the pain being individual. I got very lucky in that sense. My braces have never hurt, even when they put the strongest powerchain/elastic combo on. When i have a cavity i dont even get them frozen, the drilling doesnt seem to hurt usually. Id hate to have dental pain throughout havi...

Im not sure what the name would be, but they hook onto my canines and then go around a hook on the back of my bottom brackets. Nothing to elaborate but it gets the job done

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yeah, the past 2 months the gaps have closed at an insane rate. The reason i was so upset for awhile was because they werent moving at all. now theyre almost closed!
I have 3/16" Heavy elastics. They said theyre the strongest ones they have plus the tightest powerchain too

They havent done a thing to my lowers for about 6 months. Same wire, just different ligs at each adjustment. My lowers were pretty good to start, they just needed to be more "arched" shaped. And yes, i can feel the tops and bottoms very slightly when i bite down. Its a very tight but good ...

Thank you! They are literally using every last mm of space in my mouth to move my teeth back. The one assistant didnt think there was any room left 3 months ago, but he said there was and he was able to move the front teeth back a few mm's more. The left side is fully closed, the right side will hav...

ohh one more week for you! congrats

19 more days and im free! Anyone who has followed my story would know i started out enthusiastically, but at the 1 year mark i get extremely sick of them and have been complaining since :P Well, i have 19 days left and theyre off! i was ready to have them taken out in June and just live with the gap...

I never had perfect teeth. Out of 10 they were probably a 6.5/10 but i was ok with it and could handle it. I always wished i had better teeth but it didnt seem worth it to me. One day a bunch of friends and i went out to a bar. Had a great time and on the way back everyone was horsing around. One of...

I hear ya man I was told 12 months, MAYBE 15 if everything went horribly wrong. Im no at 16 months and they "hope" ill be done by the end of August. If i knew it was this long, i'd have never gotten braces. I respect that most people are optimistic about it, and boy my teeth sure do look b...

Im just wondering, im getting so close to being done!! But my gaps still have a mm or two to go. They haven't seemed to move much at all the past few months and even my ortho was surprised. It looks like there is no more room for my teeth to move back either. I know every case is unique, but i was w...

OK, here is some pics from today, March 20th. Definitely getting sick of them to where im almost at my breaking point (see my post in the main forum if you like drama) If you see progress, please let me know! Only do it if you see it though, not just to be nice :) I think i might get them 2.5-3 more...

Thanks for the support everyone! I was afraid after i first posted that i'd get a lot of people telling me i was childish or behaving irrationally. The letter sounds like a good idea, maybe if it is spelled out in front of them like that they will get the hint. Whats funny is i actually had planned ...

i admit i am debating on calling up another ortho and seeing if they will take me on. Im sure some of them can see that people want these off ASAP and dont want to spend "the best years of their lives" with braces. Despite how this post looks, im actually a very even tempered person. This ...

i tried too. They have their place set up like an assembly line with about 8 chairs together for people to be worked on. They get you in and out extremely fast so i actually brought in my mom with me to stop them and make them talk. They still rushed her to the point she couldnt get a word in. Every...

Ill keep this short When i got my braces on, they said a year, 15 months tops. In december, they said by May at the latest. Ive been getting antsy because theyre still making me wait 6-8 weeks just to have my powerchain changed. Today i went in and asked if maybe we could shorten the time between ap...