Metal Mouth Message Board

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:50 pm**

Do you cover your mouth when you laugh or do you just let them see all your metal mouth? Me- Hell I just laugh and let them see what they see.
-T.I.

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 1:00 pm**

Nope, I dazzle them with the glint off my metals

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 2:04 pm**

I used to cover my mouth before I got braces.

During braces treatment, however, I smiled big. I figured, hey, they look better now than they used to look!

Now that treatment's over, I'm smiling at everyone. Constantly.

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:52 pm**

Hey Shine On!

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:37 pm**

Yeah my teeth in my opinion pre-braces looked pretty vile, and then I had a baby tooth removed and a flipper put in that looked even worse!!

On Monday of this week I got my braces and I don't even care anymore.. it's GREAT!!

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:42 pm**

I always intend to laugh in a subdued way to reduce the glint factor, but then I forget and present full frontal guffaws. Planning on practicing a discrete, shineless smile for the driver's license renewal photo, though. I'll probably forget, then, too and live with a brace-face ID for three years! (And after living the last three years with the only good photo I've ever had--it even receives compliments. Sigh.)

Nancy

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 7:44 pm**

Hell No!
I laugh a wide as I can so all can see my full metal jacket (grin).

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:08 pm**

If i am eating, and I laugh I cover my mouth

Posted: **Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:19 pm**

Posted: **Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:05 am**

Hmm, I probably always cover my mouth when laughing, I don't like people seeing my braces.

I am a super self-conscious person in general and probably very self-absorbed and vain as well, so I'm extremely conscious about everything involving my physical appearance. Braces is just a small part of that. I always like to look my best and only present myself in ways that accentuate my best qualities. If there is something about me that is unattractive then I downplay that as much as possible.

I'm the type of person that wouldn't let someone I don't know see me without makeup on let alone give them a full view of my braces. That's just me though.

Posted: **Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:40 am**

I've always had a big smile (I don't know why, I always hated my teeth!). But since I have four very prominent extraction gaps, I cover my mouth when I laugh or smile big. It's not the braces, it's the mouthful of missing teeth. Call me shallow! The braces don't embarrass me, so I imagine I'll stop covering up when the gaps close.

Posted: **Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:36 am**

nope not even a little bit , matter a fact WIDER metal is kool and costly, plus it shows off my new green powerchains

Posted: **Fri Jul 27, 2007 5:00 am**

I never cover my mouth. I'm proud of 'em

Posted: **Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:36 am**

I covered them the first few days, not anymore, let them see the braces

Anyway I realized most people don't even notice them ( got ceramics ) or simply don't care.

When I eat .... ouch, that's another story, I cover my mouth until I am done eating and I had at least the chance to rinse off and remove most of the food.

Posted: **Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:49 pm**

When I had my "flipper" in (a retainer type thing with a fake tooth on it..) I would cover my mouth when I laughed. It looked really bad and I had it for almost 1 year. UGH.

Now with my braces on, I am no longer wearing the flipper to cover the hole where a tooth once was.

I thought I would look *extra* bad, but the braces themselves distract folks from looking at alla that.

I'm proud of my braces in that I think they are a direct- yet "indirect" way to say I give a crap about me and I'm doing something nice for myself.

Yeah.