Metal Mouth Message Board

Oh wow, I know how you feel! It's like you want to go to sleep and not wake up until the surgery date.. I'm still waiting on a confirmed date for my BSSO and it seems like it's never going to be here. It's so hard not to put your life on hold until it's over. You just have to remember that your teet...

If you have a lot of swelling after your teeth are out, try to sleep with a lot of pillows so you're kind of upright.. It REALLY helped for me. [...] Hey Luella, I have a small question (since you're so experienced in the subject!). After wisdom teeth are taken out, are antibiotics usually prescribe...

I'm bad, I still eat caramel.. Snickers and Milky Way mostly. I haven't knocked off a bracket or gotten a cavity yet (knock on wood), but I think I'll try those instead next time so I don't mess up my braces TOO much.

What is Toblerone? The greatest chocolate in the world! Ever since I got my braces on, I've been seeing corn on the cob EVERYWHERE. I was offered some just last week! I don't think anyone has ever offered me it before I had braces on, it's like they know... :roll: I could probably cut it off the co...

Hey, thanks! I was hoping on leaving 1.5 - 2 months between the travel and the surgery, so I guess if all goes well I should be good. Of course, now I have a new question. This one is purely curiosity really.. When I bring my lower jaw forward so that my front teeth are where they should be, it seem...

I'm lucky enough to not have had elastics yet, but my ortho says that he's gonna have me in a TON of them soon. Isn't it hard to remember where to put them, especially if you have quite a few?

Hello, I'm new here. :) Sometime this year (ortho's prediction is August or September) I'll be having jaw surgery to correct my huge overbite. I've had my braces on for about a year, and had 2 extractions before I got the lowers on. My teeth are pretty straight now, the front ones only miss each oth...