Metal Mouth Message Board

Thanks for that first post. Making me feel a lot better about some of my worries!

Thanks, everyone. Just checked back in. Reading all of your stories is really helpful. No news to report, yet. My first consultations will be in a couple weeks. nb78 - it does sound like we have very similar situations and I'm sorry you've had to go through that. Your story is difficult for me to he...

Hi Anna, I read through your posts here, and it was nice to see someone with similar thinking to me. I think that if your bite really doesn't cause you any pain or unbearable functional issues, and the people around you don't even seem to notice anything cosmetically, your only reason for going with...

Thank you goofylook for this post. I've been trying to get a grasp on what all the names refer to and this lays it out well. I'm not sure what type of surgery I'll be needing yet, but I know that my upper palate is too narrow, so I am assuming I will need SARPE. However I also have a skeletal underb...

Thanks, everyone for your helpful responses. I'm moving back home across the state in three weeks to really get a handle on this thing. I already have 2 more consultations scheduled. I will come back and update on what I hear and what I'm thinking. I hope I can find an ortho I really trust, who has ...

Thanks for your thoughtful responses Anna and Tob. I'm glad that I found this forum, as I find it difficult to talk about this issue candidly with my friends. I appreciate that there is a community of people who have all gone through similar things and lived through these very same emotions. I'm sur...

Hello everyone. As you can see this is my first post, so please forgive me if I'm not following standard procedures by making my own thread. I also have no experience posting on message boards. I'm a 25 year old male with a class III maloclussion underbite/crossbite and narrow palate causing an open...