Metal Mouth Message Board

It's been a week since the wires went on and the complaint is the scraping on two particular mounts. If she wasn't studying for (and worrying about) an Accounting test tomorrow, we may have gone in for a look-see and maybe some alternative. Those darn canine post/hooks are what is causing the proble...

She wears neither - it was just such a surprise for her about how soon the wires would start to tug and how painful it would be. Four days on, her biggest complaint is the rubbing of the metal inside her mouth, and she's convinced she'll get some kind of infection or else the sores will be with her ...

Hi all - my wife got her braces on Monday. She's 42 and we've been dealing with periodontal disease for over a year. Now that the perio is under control, we got the go-ahead to get the braces. Monday we got them. Tuesday she was in tears from the pain. She convinced herself she was the ONLY person w...

Hello all. I am writing this for my wife who is still in Romania and waiting for her visa to be approved. However, this site has given her confidence to do what she has been told can not be done - get braces at her advanced age of 40(!). She will have questions and I have story to tell, but first - ...