Metal Mouth Message Board

TinMan, Man it's been a while since I posted here. I have been in retainers for about 8 months and my teeth still feel a little loose. My son who has been in retainers for five years still tells me his teeth feel a little loose. With that being said, I normally only wear my retainers for half the da...

I got braces two week after I turned 41.

Here is what I did. Throw the floss threader in the trash. Go to the local store and by the pre-cut floss with the threaded end used for floss under dental work. Push the threaded end under your wire and between the teeth and pull it through. Floss like you normally do then pull the floss out from b...

Here is something to try. Put some vitamin E on your canker sore. My son gets cankers sore all the time, one day I was complaining that nothing was taking away the pain and he said he found that vitamin E takes care of the pain. He read it somewhere on the internet. I tried it and the pain was compl...

I've had no problems using my sonicare and I've been in power chains for 8 months.

I had buck teeth before I started treatment 15 months ago. My buck teeth were one of the main reasons for getting braces. The first major movement I notice after getting braces were both my Upper Laterals moved out from behind my Upper Centrals to make room for my Upper Centrals to mover back into t...

When I first got braces I notice right off that I would sleep 2 to 3 hours longer for the first two nights after every adjustment, but after my 6th or 7th adjustments my sleeping went back to normal after my adjustment. Maybe because I am in the fine tuning stage and my teeth done move as much as th...

My youngest son and I have done this all the way together. He is 18 and I’m 42. He should be getting his off in March or April I hope to get mine off someday?

January 6th 2005. Less then 6 months to go.

I don’t believe that power chains come in different elastic strengths. I think different manufactures use different materials that will cause a particular power chain to loose its elasticity sooner, but I think the idea behind them is to hold a light constant force for as long as possible. I have ...

I am a licensed soccer referee and every weekend I see many kids step onto the field with braces and no mouth guard. I was very apprehensive the first time I ref’d a game with braces on but by half time I was not even thinking about them. I do not wear a mouth guard because it would interfere with...

Whitney I too had the buck teeth and I had a root canal done on one of them over twenty five years ago. Like you I was very concerned that something would happen to that tooth if I had it moved when I got my teeth straightened. I have a total of 3 root canals and 4 crowns. Of the four crowns I was t...

I am 10 months into my sentence of 18 months and I never had pain until 2 weeks ago when I had two wedges put in. I have had my finishing wire on top for the last 2 months and should be getting my finishing wire on the bottom in an hour. The pain from the wedges only lasted for 2 days. If you do som...

Mtbrncofn – strange thing happened to me yesterday, I do not come to this site as mush as I use to, usually just before appointments just to check out the latest threads. Yesterday I just happen to read this thread just before I went to my appointment. During the appointment the assistant was putt...

Is it possible to rotate a lower cuspid though its vertical axis if the tooth is located in the correct placement put is angled forward 20 degrees? Otherwise the tooth does not need to rotate around its horizontal axis and the tooth is placed vertically in the correct location but the root needs to ...