Metal Mouth Message Board

I had a pretty big gap between my front big tooth and the one next to it, it was about 1mm wide. Within 6hrs of a powerchain being on the gap was closed. I was so shocked! My front teeth are so tight now! It's getting hard to floss.

Am I the only one who never really noticed any lip change with braces? My lips are naturally full, but with braces i haven't noticed a change at all. I was expecting duck lips or something, but nope. I can make my lower lip stick out really far if i rest it over the upperbraces though.

ugh, i felt the exact same way. I thought people would look down on me and think i had bad oral hygiene or something (I admit i stereotype missing teeth with improper hygiene). Once they were out, though, you really couldn't see them unless i was smiling really wide, or if i brought attention to the...

My appointments are always 4 wks apart. For the first 2 appointments he just changed the ligs. The 3rd appointment I got elastic ties, and for my appointment today I got a spring coil, new elastic ties and a thicker archwire on the top.

My dentist gave me the nitrous gas for my 4 bicusid extractions. It really took the edge off of the whole thing. I was completely TERRIFIED that the novocaine wouldn't work and that I'd end up feeling the whole procedure. But once he put the mask of nitrous gas over my face all my worries disappeare...

I think that's normal. I've obtained a rather large gap between my big tooth and the one next to it (such professional terminology, eh?). Granted, he will be filling that gap with some kind of bonder because the tooth next to the first big one is smaller than all the rest. But needless to say, since...

I had 4 premolars extracted. I stayed home from work for 2 days. I had the wonderful misfortune of having the bottom right extraction site becoming infected (i'm not sure if it was a dry socket or an infection. Either way, it caused my whole lower half of my mouth to be in excruciating pain). Althou...

i'll be either 20 or 21 depending on if they want them on for 2 or 3 yrs.

I had my first adjustment today. All he did was take of the the old purple ligs and put on new pink ones. When I first got my braces on he wasn't able to but the ligs fully on each tooth, but now all of them have a nice pink lig wrapped around the bracket. It wasn't very eventful. I kind of wanted a...

18, Toronto. Braces on for 3weeks