Metal Mouth Message Board

I feel your pain Kip! Your gap is so much smaller than mine was. Sometimes I take 400 mg of Advil, along with tylenol and 500 mg naproxen. It doesn't touch the pain! I don't know what else I can do. Weirdly I find the pain is much less if I am lying down. Kind of hard to do at work but at least I ca...

Thanks Kip. I am pleased with the progress but I know there is a long way to go. I think my earliest chance of getting them off is May 2018. The pain is continuous these days with the power chains. I am dreading getting elastics!!!

Here is one more showing my bottom teeth more.

Here is my first day braces ( January 26 2016) and today ( October 26 2016) from the front. My side pictures aren't that great. I hadn't had my extractions yet in the first picture. thumb_thumb_P1260129_1024_1024.jpg thumb_DSC05887_1024.jpg My two front teeth were broken when I was 7 and will have t...

My midline was really off (about half a tooth) but looks pretty centred too me now. I know I will need the dreaded elastics to bring down my left top and my right bottom. These teeth don't touch so I always have to chew on the right.

Your teeth look great! Your overjet looks similar to mine at this point.I am going away for 27 days in December as well. I am going to Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. I am not looking forward to eating rice and noodles since they are the worst! I only had my power chains on for 2 days and I had to g...

Hi Kip I just had power chains put on yesterday to start moving my overjet back. I haven't really noticed it getting smaller yet so hopefully this will help. I hope the pain will subside soon. So intense and back to eating soft things again. I am off to Asia in December for 27 days and am dreading e...

Oh my gosh! Your teeth look so similar to mine before I was braced in January. Yours are moving much faster. Oh the joy of being braced at a younger age.

Sounds like you are progressing fast! I feel like I am at a standstill for the moment. I can't see your pictures yet but will keep checking back until I can.

Any pictures to show?

I was knocked right out for my extractions. It was the most enjoyable part of the journey so far.

Any updated photos? It seems like I am at a standstill. These 8 months have gone by so slowly.

The way my braces are hurting I wouldn't be surprised if all my teeth were in place by tomorrow!

I just had an adjustment today and my spring is gone! I would have been happy to hear I was getting power chains too but no such luck. He said not for 8 more weeks! Still working on my left fang tooth moving down some more. I never really noticed it was up until it was mentioned.

Lucky you! I can hardly wait for my spring to be gone. My tooth still has a long way before it is it it's right place. I will probably need at least one more spring exchange before it finally happens. Things are moving so fast for you.