Metal Mouth Message Board

As a heathcare architect that does planning for hospitals and clinics, I can tell you this came from a clinical model that typically has one doc with multiple patients needing treatment at different stages. Orthodontics is quite different from your day to day dentist work. Typically we provide one o...

A good place to go is the American Association of Orthodontist. They have listed all board certified Ortho by state. Some are diploma members, more of a prestige title but aslong long as they are there they are board certified. That is important since it means they studied it after dental school as ...

Yeah I know especially since he charged 75 bucks for a consult the only one.... Everyone else was no charge. Plus he wanted to do additional records before giving me a price. Like he really could not tell us an estimate based on his extensive experience. His words. I thought my friend was exaggerati...

We had to pay $200 for records which included the xrays( pano & side skull view)moulds and treatment plan. I suppose if your not happy With the ortho you could ask for them if you paid for them. But if you wait too long the next ortho could ask for additional records. Are you not sure about the ...

Well we went to the first ortho and discussed my concerns. He looked at her teeth gave us his thoughts but took another pano. And he said see showed us that her teeth have already come down more compared to 2 months ago. So he explained his philosophy of letting nature work first and then if stubbor...

Well I can say that the orthos that used SL did quote less time than the ones using traditional brackets. And the Damon doc was the shortest amount of time. Of course we will see now but we did the records mold etc and when we went to get the treatment prescribed she felt confident of the timeframe....

Hi everyone, I am new new to the forum. My daughter needs braces so we consulted 3 orthos and it has been interesting to say the least. She just turned 14. She still has her baby molars, premolars are up there roots not complete and her lower secondary molars have not erupted yet but are pushing tow...