Metal Mouth Message Board

We're starting treatment at about the same time, so I'll be following your progress! My estimated time in 21 months. It will be interesting to see how close we both come to the estimates! Anyway, hopefully you're feeling somewhat normal by this time. Thanks! I'm feeling some of the soreness subside...

Your pictures are really amazing and inspiring! It's great to have a place like this for positive reinforcement because during my first week I had a couple of "what in the heck was I thinking " moments. However, seeing such beautiful results gives me hope for the future. (Only 103 more wee...

Congratulations on your braces! If your experience is anything like mine, you won't start feeling it until a day later. Although, my teeth had started to ache a bit by the end of b-day. I took that as a positive sign that my teeth were moving. My orthodontist told me to chew a half stick of sugarles...

Hello, everyone! I was delighted to find this site and learn that plenty of other adults are getting braced. This is my first time in braces. Unfortunately, I had a quack dentist as a child. Aside from an aversion to local anesthetic, he told my parents that the gap between my front teeth would clos...