Metal Mouth Message Board

The worst pain hands down was the spacers, the power chain is a cakewalk in comparison.

[quote="Kipepeo"]It's like 2 steps forward and 1 step back. Elastics only work if you wear them, so the longer, the better. Over time (weeks) you will see a difference. I don't know about the 9 hour/1 hour thing, but I understand and agree with the concept.[/quote] Well, I've decided to we...

They have their prons and cons. The water pik is indeed better at getting food out, but it is not as effective at removing plaque as regular flossing. As far as I'm concerned, 1 or 2 years of not flossing and using a water pik is fine for people with braces. My routine pre-braces was water pik 5x a ...

I think I started out every 3 months and the time between visits has been getting shorter ever since.

Like another poster said, I took a photo as soon as I got home. An assistant will likely put them on you, and maybe even show you how its done in a mirror. You won't have to put them on yourself in the office because my first time putting them on took nearly half an hour and I'm sure many other peop...

I returned to talking normally after 3 or 4 days, and the more you practice talking the better you will be. Like Tobilei, I had the opposite experience with my mouth being extremely dry and having to drink water every half hour.

So I've just got my expander off only for it to be replaced with elastics. Of course this is a huge bummer as I've been looking forward to being expander free and instead get hit with something much worse. I was told by my Ortho that the longer I keep the elastics on the better and said 22 hours a d...