Metal Mouth Message Board

Meryaten wrote:

Well, the very pretty hot pink ligs pictured above went a nasty shade of drab peach after a few curries I spared you all a pic of that though

Are these ligs after the staining? Because I actually like them!!!
I love the shape of your teeth, by the way!

Meryaten, it stained that bad? I want to try colors but I am so scared!! Seeing all these posts with different lig colors really make me want to be brave and tell my ortho to put color but I am scared I will look even younger!! lol

The pic below illustrates my favorite way to wear two colors. It is hard to tell but I had burgundy and hunter green. My favorite is red and black.

Right now I am all kelly green for St. Patty's day. Shall take a pic and post when I get home.

That looks pretty cool Dulcinea! Would love to see the green ligs for Saint Patricks!

~Hannah




Top braces: 4/28/04
Bottom braces: 11/16/05
Last Adjustment was 2/1/06 where they bonded a bracket to my cuspid, which was impacted!!!! OUCH!
Next Adjustment: February 28, 2006

I just had an appt and I got green ligs too! =) YAY! And my birthday is on St Patrick's day too.

Meryaten wrote:

Well, the very pretty hot pink ligs pictured above went a nasty shade of drab peach after a few curries I spared you all a pic of that though

I'm in black and dark green now - pic to follow later...

I really love the hot pink, I'm considering either getting that or maybe a mixture of blue when I finally get braced.

Here are my green ligs - good progress comparison pic too!

I have teal upper and clear bottom, pics to follow...

I don't have the nerve to try colors.......YET! Sticking with the boring clear on Ceramics [tops] and grey on metal [bottoms]. Since I have another year to go, I'll probably be daring and try colors.....eventually! hahaha

sorry this is so dark...still experimenting with camera.

I have silver on my lower teeth, boring I know but I really like them On the top ceramics I have wire ties. I love, love, love them. I can't really do colors because they want wire ties on the springs I have so they will only do colors on some of the teeth and it messes up the look



I've got the wire ends pushed back now so they don't show any more like they do in this picture.

Got light green today for St. Patrick's Day. Not too bad...but if your teeth have staining (such as mine do...) it does make them look a little dingy...

can't really do colors because they want wire ties on the springs

My ortho told me they could put colors over top of the wire ties.

- Missing Tooth -

Here are my metallic emeralds I got for St. Pats yesterday! And some new 'spiffy' coil springs to add that little bit of bling. I had copper the first month, then silver, and I wanted something different this time. Y'all be good now!!

missing_tooth wrote:

can't really do colors because they want wire ties on the springs

My ortho told me they could put colors over top of the wire ties.

My ortho's office is very stingy with the color ligs. They don't even put them on the side and back teeth. They will just put them on the front six-eight and that's all. I didn't specifically ask them to put colors over the wire ties and they might do it but they wouldn't like it.

I just had an adjustment today and my ortho did a wire tie on one of my teeth, but the assistant easily fitted a lig around that tooth. You can't even tell I have a wire tie. I'm sure if you requested them they could give them to you as well.