Metal Mouth Message Board

Is it also wierd that I only have metal Ligs kinda like a twist tie and no elastic ones? I was looking at the post about what colors are your ligs and there seems to be alot of people with them.

Dose anybody have any tips on how to put back on your Ligature elastics if they fall off? It usually take me half an hour to try and get it back on. I only have 2, so my teeth don't chip when I bite down. But every now and again one will pop off. I think I might have ate one last night cause I only ...

nice teeth...I had mine exposed and brought successfully into place in a short 6 months. It is definitely worth it! :shock: Wow 6 months! That's great I've already had my braces on for 6 months and my tooth is down but it's not in place yet. My Ortho said that I have a 50/50 chance of it working. I...

Hi That happened to me to, my bracket on my bottom molar came off and I keep asking them when they will put it back on and they really never get around to doing it. Now when I look at my teeth you can really see that the molar is out of place. I'm assuming that it's not going to affect the final out...

Thaks for the reassurance, I'm so happy I found this site. It's been a big help.

I have alot of pain. I never really use to but at my last adjustment they replaced my archwire with a stronger one and now I'm in constant pain . I know I will get use to it soon so it's no big deal.

Hi Anybody else going through this? They've done the exposure and put something on the back of the tooth kinda looks like a button or something, and they attatched a metal wire from my top arch wire to the button and they are trying to bring it down. So far it has moved quite a bit but so have all m...

Hi I'm a 32 year old female from Toronto Canada, I got my braced in October 2006. I had to get quite a few things done before I got my braces on. First I had to get my wisdom teeth out and I have an impacted canine tooth so they had to expose that on the roof of my mouth and they put some kind of bo...

32 year old female from Toronto canada, braced in October 2006.

Hi I have the blue stuff too. My whole bite is way off. It's annoying but I've had my braces on for 7 months so I'm getting use to it. When my blue stuff started to wear off I was chipping my teeth on my brces, So now I have a chipped tooth. They also had to put 2 rubberbands around my brackets so m...