Metal Mouth Message Board

Hey Neptune and BracketRacket, I can't believe you two have premolar baby teeth as well! I seriously thought I was the only one that had a baby tooth. The reason why I thought it was so rare is because every time I would go into the dentist all of the assistants would be totally wowed by the tooth, ...

Hey alimommy, thanks for checking out my story. I would definitely say that the internal bleaching helped, but I still notice quite a bit of graying to the tooth. My dentist and ortho told me that the fact that a bracket was hiding the majority of the tooth makes it difficult to gauge the results of...

I just got back from my Ortho, and the day I have been waiting for has finally come. I got my de-banding date scheduled!!! The official day is Wednesday, October 20th, at 1:00 PM. 78 days and I will finally be brace free. That would put my entire treatment time at 20 months and 18 days, shy of the o...

Hi Lewick, thanks for checking out my story, and thanks for the comments. I had an adjustment two days ago and things are looking pretty good. My ortho moved the placement of the elastic that I am wearing right now. I am already on my largest wires, but this time around my ortho made some very sligh...

Wow!! Your teeth look incredible!! Congratulations!

Thanks, Goki! I appreciate the compliment. I am nearly a month in with my largest wires and I think I am making some really great progress. The gaps in my bite have really closed up quite a bit. I have been wearing my one elastic on the right side pretty consistently. My ortho wants me to wear it 24...

Hey Lewick,

I have been following your story. Wow! What tremendous movement on your uppers and lowers. I believe your smile will be incredible when this whole "ordeal" is through haha.

Blake

Hey Kayleigh,

How are things going with your braces? You and I got them on around the same time so you must be showing some great progress! Did the ortho ever tell you that he could have them off in May?

Blake

Update: I went in to my ortho about two weeks ago for an adjustment and got bumped up to my largest wire. I am not sure the specs of the wire, all I know is that it doesn't get any bigger than this, and man I can feel it. The assistance that was "handling" me must have been new because she...

Progress is looking great!!

Tom, Yeah, big time bummer about the canine. If the internal whitening doesn't work then I am definitely going to get a vaneer. Thanks for the comment about my arches! Soooo an update...I was supposed to go in for an adjustment last week, but I got super busy at work and had to re-schedule. I took s...

Catfish: Thanks for the complement! Yeah, the canine thing was kind of a set-back, but oh well. I had an adjustment a few weeks ago, and let me tell you, it was the worst one I have had. The pain was excruciating. I felt like my teeth were made of glass, and were going to shatter at any moment. I co...

Tom, I am not going to lie, but I am extremely jealous!!!!! You and I both got our braces around the same time, and here I am applying wax to my back molar bracket, and there you are bracket free! I agree with you that following the directions is the best thing to do. I was making amazing progress w...

So, wow, it has been a long time since I have updated this. I thought I would drop in a talk a little bit about how I am doing. I am closing in my 1 year mark with braces in about a week. So far the journey has been interesting, to say the least. My teeth have made tremendous progress in my eyes (wh...

About chewing gum...my ortho assistant was pretty adamant about not chewing any type of gum, but if I "had" to then to chew sugar-free gum. I quickly went straight to the store and bought sugar-free gum because I am a gum addict. Do not chew any gum with sugar in it because it will still t...