Metal Mouth Message Board

JennieLee, Buy it once. A fellow brace wearer toldme that tootpicks will be your best friend. A proxy brush has also been a great help. This is kind of like a hybrid between the two. The toothpick part is narrower and fits in better between the teeth. The other end is very flexible and will get chun...

I met a wonderful lady in the mall and we started talking braces. Hmmm, how did we get on that subject-she had an attractive metal smile-haha! After a while about talking about the normal stuff it switched to food getting stuck and things like that and she pulled out these toothpicks. www.brushpicks...

An Alternative to thread floss:

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Well, I ws trying to be as diligent as possible with flossing, but I was just not cutting it. I just found out about shower floss. It is available at www.showerfloss.com It is great! I have not used a waterpik so I don't know how to compare. It is easy to hook this up to your shower and I have used ...

Tessa,

Great to have you with us. That was a great post-sorry you have to go through it again. It will be well worth it. I have found so much information ans support here, it is wonderful!

Mine were just put on Tuesday for about 2 years.

Hang in there and keep in touch!

Hey B, Great to have you here. I am a relative newbie here but like you have found this site so informative, friendly, caring, and also blunt at times when people need it. I am joining the brace crowd earlier in the month of February 2005. We will have close dates of entering the "family"....

Chris, AttaGirl2 and Dodger, Thank you sooo much for your support and comments. It is such a welcoming feeling knowing that there are people out there in the same situation and want to talk about it. Someday maybe there can be a big Archwired reunion. It would be great to get to know some of you guy...

Hi all, First off, I wanted to thank Lynn for her ongoing support of us all and everything she has done to create such a warm family sharing the same concerns. This is such a great place-thanks again, Lynn. I have been reading for about 2-3 weeks now and there are some great regulars who offer suppo...

Debi,

If you go to the member list, you can see everyone who has a website. Some may not be a braces website but you can sift through them. I found a few other sites very helpful.

Steve