Metal Mouth Message Board

well, now i don't even notice my brackets! yay!!! i forget that i even have them on. and just when you start to get comfortable..... i'm scheduled for extractions on monday, yikes! a little nervous but i'll be asleep - thank God. i'm hoping since they'll remove premolars instead of wisdom teeth that...

well, nothing new really happening. i'm scheduled to get 4 extractions on the 17th and then get my wire on halloween! my mouth finally got used to the brackets after about a week but on the second day one popped off while i was eating. it took two weeks to finally get in to get the bracket replaced....

well, i just got my brackets on, without the wire. i'll have to wait for my extractions before they put the wire in. my appointment for extractions is in 13 days. getting the brackets was completely painless. nothing to worry about there. the metal is really doing a number on the inside of my mouth....

thought that i'd post some -before- pics before tomorrow. front: (looks pretty normal outside of my mid lines being off) http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/3269/81105front8zr.th.jpg left: (this side is pretty ok minus the overbite problem) http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/1737/81105left3tz.th.jpg ...

and i'm eating every crunchy, sugary, hard thing possible!!! it's 10:30pm and i'm still eating. i have a feeling that i'm not going to feel like eating anything tomorrow. my appointment is at 10:35am and now i'm.... hmmm terrified, excited, nervous, anxious. once again, 29, grad student, correcting ...

well, i've seen two other orthos and of the 4 i've seen, i thought that the last one was really great. great office, great staff so i'm going with them! they are also FAST. had my initial eval today (called 2wks ago) as well as my molds. john doe: yeah, i decided not to go with invisalign since the ...

:shock: - when i saw my little sister's mouth after a year and a half in braces (the 1st in our fam to get them) to correct her overbite. beautiful! amazing! totally different! :?: - started wondering if i could get similar results for my overbite. i have straight teeth, i'd just like to move them a...