Metal Mouth Message Board

I ordered the SonicBrite and the sonic cleaner. Figured it would be easier to just bite the bullet. My Hawley is cleaning up fine with gel toothpaste, but my Essix is getting a film on it...probably from the crappy water we have where I live. I should have it Monday. I'll post a review as soon as I ...

jbj, I usually went for adjustments every 8 weeks, but I went thru a period where I was chomping off lower brackets, so those ortho visits turned into non-scheduled adjustments. :) Also, expect some FAST movement in the first 3 months. The archwires will move and you'll probably have excess wire nea...

hollywood smile!

Wow, really? Thanks! After being so self-conscious of my crooked teeth, I am still getting used to my new choppers!!!!

HOW are they so white without the zoom whitening yet? Not sure how they got so white! I am being "Zoomed" this Monday the 26th, so it will be interesting to see how much whiter they become. My theory is that the orthodontic glue really made my teeth look dingy and having crooked teeth att...

Frances,

Here is the link to my pics post! I wore Damon3 braces for 17.5 months.

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Kitty

I have had problems with the doors opening, though. Mostly the problem was the tech. being a complete ditz. If the ortho or tech. working on you isn't experienced with the brackets then they're not going to work well for you. Dittos on that. My tech was always afraid to ask the ortho or another tec...

holy smokes you turn into a whistling fool when it's retainer time OMG you are NOT kidding! The first time it happened to me my husband burst out laughing and said "WHAT was THAT?". Has something to do with the Hawley retainer. When I was braced, I couldn't pronounce "k"'s, as i...

Wow, sorry to hear that you've had so much trouble with the order! Disappointed that you don't think it's any better than the Efferdent too. :( I was surfing archwired.com today and went to the how they make retainers link. They sell retainer supplies and cleaners. Theirs is called SonicBrite and co...

Echo, 2 weeks DOES seem long. I got my braces off last month and they did the molds for the retainers and made me "temporary" plastic Essix type retainers right there in the office while my "real" retainers were being made (3 weeks). I'm surprised you didn't get temporary retaine...

Did your retainer brite arrive yet? I'm considering buying it with the sonic cleaner but wanted your review of it first!

In my 17.5 months in braces? At least 6-8 times...poking wires, broken brackets. My ortho's office encourages it as well. Better to fix the problem immediately than be in discomfort or set back treatment time with a broken bracket. No extra charge for it...included in the treatment cost.

I thought it would be less painful than it is/was! I've been wearing the temporary Truetain plastic retainers for about 3 weeks and they weren't bad. Got the lower Hawley (clear pink with mini glitter) and the upper Essex (Truetain). The upper looks and feels exactly like the temp did, but a bit thi...

Good question! In all of the excitement of being debanded, I THINK I chose a light pink/mouth color with mini glitter. I'll find out tomorrow. It's been 3 weeks since the braces came off and it all happened so quickly that my head is still spinning!

When the tech asks which flavor of impression goop you'd like, don't choose orange. Mine tasted and smelled more like latex paint! The fumes were enough to gag a maggot! :lol: In all seriousness, I was so thrilled to have the braces off that I wasn't too gagged out. It did seem to take forever with ...

I was in a similar dilemma pre-braces. Had just had (another) root canal on a tooth that was already crowned. The endodontist drilled thru the crown to do the root canal and did the post build up. It left a "crater" on the tooth surface, that while in reality wasn't very large, FELT huge t...