Metal Mouth Message Board

I have an overbite/overjet and I'm hoping to have it corrected purely through braces (no surgery).
Is anyone else trying to achieve this?

If so post your pics in this thread and if you have before and after shots that would be even better!

Please state whether you had/will be having surgery or not.

P.S: I am getting my hands on a good camera in a few days and when I do, I will post a pic of my overbite and hopefully (12 months down the line) I can come back to this thread an post my corrected overbite

Start posting guys!!.....

Camdog-

I have a 9-10mm overjet, several OD's over the years have said braces and BSSO surgery. So, now I am finally doing it......this OD said if I went the no surgery route he did not believe he could pull my teeth back enough--and eventually over time they would flare out again.....after 5months of braces so far, there is a huge difference, but my teeth still rest on my lower lip--so I see what he means--the lip would just push the teeth out again! I am hoping to have BSSO surgery spring/summer 2010--hoping sooner rather than later....

good luck!

ps-I am 38yo, and have known since I was 22 I needed this done--the overjet has gotten worse over the years, so if you are younger than me, and need the surgery--do it!!

Here is a link to the thread containing my before & after pics. I had surgery to correct my overbite a few months ago.

viewtopic.php?t=33115

Thanks for the responses guys, I'm 25 year old and currently running my own buisness so cant really afford to take any time off for jaw surgery or such which is why I'm hoping braces by themself will cure most of the problem (wont be perfect I know).

Anyway, I managed to get hold of a digital camera to take some good quality pics, see what you thik guys and everyone else, keep posting!


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Hi Camdog, I was wodnering do you also have trouble biting things with your front teeth like say spaghetti?

Vyse... I havent been able to bite into ANYTHING with my front teeth since the braces have been put on, even still to this day (3 weeks on!)

If you mean before I had them on though, then I had no problem at all.

Here's my overjet before and after pics. I did not have surgery, but I had my upper 1st premolars extracted to make space to move everything back. Wore braces for less than 2yrs.

WOW yours look amazing.

yeah, Faerydust thats a great job! Plus, goog to know that such a good job can be done without surgery, thanks for posting!

here's mine

when i started the treatment i only had an overbite, but now i have an overjet too..because my central incisor had to move forward

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/8559/dsc03368tl.jpg

lower-braced 2 days ago, let's hope for the best