Metal Mouth Message Board

Hi guysngals, I signed up here when I first got braces, and started a counter [for both upper and lower]. Well I just remembered this site and decided to log in and look at how long I've had this metal mouth and ohmygosh has it been that long!?!? Good news is: hopefully I only have the rest of this ...

I was 28, almost 29, and got them as part of my TMJ treatment. Still fighting the good fight with them, but really looking forward to the day I get a solid date I can take them off!
Some days it can't come soon enough...

You can google it, but to put it simply, it's a messed up jaw joint. My bottom jaw went to the wrong spot when I chewed and stuff because my teeth weren't aligned correctly. Years of that pushed out the cartilage from one of my jaw joints and it locked up on me, prompting me to get treatment... whic...

oh, hey I responded to your other thread so I hopped on over to look at this one. I have to say, I think your deep bite was caused by the same thing mine was... my front teeth were "retro-inclined" and thus pushed back my lower jaw too much! At least you didn't get TMJ disorder as a result...

Ha, two years into treatment and I just finally got my complete lower braces yesterday. Up until this point they had only my uppers on to straighten that arch along with pulling up two lower teeth that were banded. They have been using elastics to pull those teeth up to meet my top teeth [my deep bi...

I had a really attractive person ask me to kiss them because they'd never kissed someone with braces before.

It was awesome. And they didn't get in the way

I have 2 baby teeth on my lower jaw. I've only got upper braces, but that will be changing soon enough. So I've been informed that I have to pull those baby teeth. [one is holding up but the other is not-so-good.] I guess my only advice is this: I'm 29. The baby tooth that's not-so-good lasted forev...

I get that sort of thing with my ligs all the time on the teeth that need to be/ needed to be rotated some.

I just think it pulls it a certain way as opposed to completely placing the lig on all four corners.

Thanks for the reply- maybe I'll try some fluoride rinse that I have to see if it helps.

Hey, I have a question for you nice folk: Did you ever get the feeling that a nerve in your tooth was exposed after a major tooth adjustment or a major move in your teeth was happening? At my last adjustment, I had my last crooked tooth set to be pulled into alignment with the rest of my teeth. It w...

i decided to keep my tongue piercing in through the braces ordeal. i've had braces for however long the ticker says at bottom but no problems have occurred. i'd imagine a labret piercing, however, would be more uncomfortable. my tongue ring sits rather nicely in my mouth, tho, touching the roof of m...

Rosie, I have two things to add:

1. Relax.
2. I like your avatar

RocknRollFun, www.jawproducts.com They should have color elastics. That is where I got color powerchains that my ortho didn't have and he was very pleased with them. I think he is now getting a few of his suppiles from them. Thanks... I've got my first adjustment tomorrow- I'm going to ask my ortho...

i wore my spacers for a week. starting about day 3 is when it was the most tender... i was loving mashed potatoes, that's for sure. one side of my mouth could barely get them fit in, and the other side had one that kept falling out. maybe mine was more tender because they had to keep messing with th...

onny wrote:mine too. bought them my own

where'd ya get them?