Metal Mouth Message Board

I had that problem on all of mine. I had a thread about it. 1) make them hammer those bad boys down 2) try Rincinol 3) wax 4) try to get an rx for Kenalog orabase. I put that stuff right over the cleat before bed and it helped heal my tongue overnight. 5) oddly enough, someone joked with me about dr...

Yes! Ceramics on top are worth every penny. Mine are actually the ICE (sapphire) and no one notices them at all. I've been able to appear onstage with no one noticing, and there are people who are just noticing that I have them, when they've been on over two months. I wish I could get them on bottom...

When considering braces v. Invisalign, I wrote to the company to find out if Invisalign uses plasticizers and what material they are made of. Dioxins and other chemicals are released from materials like PVC, etc. and have been shown to cause endometriosis, other fertility problems, and other general...

Ooooh, Neptune, I never even thought of that! I have the same situation, but unfortunately for me, it's only on one side, so there's a big difference between the size of each premolar. I know my bite won't be ideal, but the ortho sees no reason to pull the baby tooth. I don't have my lowers yet (May...

Melissa, it sounds like I got off a lot easier than you!
Sabrina, that one sounds like a LOT more fun than ours!

New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Sorry, you live down here long enough people will convince you it's the "only" Jazz Fest. LOL

Yeah, and I'm getting my new spacers the morning that I'm going to Jazz Fest. Hopefully that will take my mind off of them. If I have cleat problems with the new set, I think I will officially lose my mind.

Melissa, when do you get your braces off? My ortho said 1 year total.

Thank you all so much for your replies. Christopher, you're really going through the exact same thing. I don't know what helices are, but he has not said that word to me, so I'm assuming those aren't in my future. I guess the worst of it is that, darn it, my only comfort when I had the spacers the f...

that's good to know. Congrats on getting your braces off! These bands really just creep me out, PLUS I'm so aggravated that I will have to go through SPACERS AGAIN!!! yuck

I am both pouting and asking for opinion here. :? I have metal bands around 4 molars (and thank you to all of you who helped me through cleat-hell!). The very back molars--I think those are 2nd molars?----now need bands so that he can bring those into line. I am borderline distraught, and I'll tell ...

That happened to me, too. I promptly went to my dentist and had a cleaning and they were able to blast it off with a Prophy Jet.

I never really thought about the idea of pulling it and having my molars moved up to take up the space. Interesting. I kind of wish a dentist would have suggested this when I was younger, and then I could be talking about this retrospectively! LOL

Thanks so much for your stories! It has been SUCH a dilemma. I got 4 dental opinions on this tooth. Like yours, the poor thing is mostly filling, but the roots are still good. I think it's part of the reason I have crowding, as well, because it's a larger premolar than the other side. Still, my dent...

Thanks, Betty! The roots are certainly different, but they're actually pretty good. Implants scare the hooey out of me (and not just the extreme cost! LOL)

I have retained a desiduous tooth (with no permanent tooth behind it) and one ortho was just like, "Oh, don't come back and talk to me until you've had that thing pulled and then we'll have you get an implant once the braces are off". When I told him that's not an option for me, he was lik...