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listerine has little strips that melt on your tongue. They are sugar free and I have found that they are working great for my dry mouth. Plus for .99 I get three packets in little plastic cases that fir great in my pocket so I always have them.

My ortho said that it was imperative to make sure that the wax, bracket and tooth surface must be dry before the "wax" was applied. It really helps a lot.

I was diagnosed with both an open bite and cross bite, and I'm currently undergoing treatment with only braces and elastics. My orthodontist did tell me that if I prolonged treatment it would get worse, and I would have to have surgery. Like you, I have to wear my elastics in a triangular shape to ...

Yeah, i am pretty sure it is silicone. Wax or silicone, it works GREAT!

I actually have gotten used to it already. I frequently find myself placing my tongue under the spurs in order to go back to my familiar tongue thrust position. When I realize I am doing, I place my tongue where it is supposed to be. If I didn't have the spurs, I wouldn't be reminded to move it. I n...

Okay... I pasted your link on my FB and asked all of my friends to vote for you! Maybe all of us with Facebook accounts could post your link and we would blast everyone else out of the water!!!!! YAY

Oooo..... that is exactly what I am getting! Please post pictures. I can't wait to see them.

Wow how sad is this lol? I dreamt last night that I was at Costco trying to find a Waterpik...

Hi, I am wondering if this is what I will be getting... they told me that I would also have a TAD placed in the roof of my mouth. On my paperwork it indicates that I have an extremely narrow pallet and then it says "skeletal". What exactly does that mean? Does anybody know what effect this...

I'm going for it... I am not sure if it will happen before the braces go on or at some point after, but I will let you know what it's like.

Good Morning, Thanks for the good news about your progress! Yes, they even showed me a picture. There will be an expansion device placed in the roof of my mouth, but instead of the kind that you turn with a key, this one has a single tad placed in the center. I was slightly horrified and when I comm...

Oh thank you! I am 45 and just starting all of this (round 2-braces as a teen). That is wonderful to see.

I went to the ortho today to get evaluated. I had braces as a teen but my teeth moved back so quickly that after a day at school my retainer wouldn't fit back in my mouth without major pressure and pain. So now at 45 round two. The first orthodontist I went to said surgery so I went and had the eval...