Metal Mouth Message Board

With braces, I guess I am unsure of what is best?! Pre braces I always used a pulsating battery operated tooth brush but now I use a plain ole brush full of bristles (none of those weird plastic "it will clean your teeth better" add ons). What do you guys use? Has your ortho recommended an...

Ok so I'm having a mental breakdown here and I'm calling my ortho immediately in the morning...please tell me if I'm crazy here!!! I haven't posted here in awhile. I would post a pic of my teeth but I'm on my phone and I can't crop my face out and that's not allowed sooo.. Boo. But anyways. My story...

I'm surprised no one said mustard!

I have a tooth missing (needing an implant or something) and the pain never went away. My ortho put a little silicone tube around the wire between those 2 teeth and I haven't had a problem since :) Oh my gosh tobilei!, I am so going to call and ask them about that. I've just had enough of it and ha...

I am missing an upper premolar and molar (right next to each other) on my upper left side of my mouth so there is just the wire going across that missing area from the teeth in front and back of it. So 2 weeks ago my cheek started getting really irritated. It looks and feels as though my cheek tissu...

Thank you anna5 :) I don't know that I'm unhappy...I'm very happy and thankful for my braces :) more so just crabby that my mouth hurts so bad! Everything is still very sore today. Throughout the day I ended up taking 1,200 mg of ibuprofen (4 200mg tablets around 7am, another 2 200mg around 1:30-2 a...

So a lot of changes since my last post. I had my first adjustment in February and they put in thicker wire and put a power chain type band between #11 and #12 as a gap formed between those two. They also took the bracket off #32. Pain the first day but was fine again after that. Today was adjustment...

I can't tell if the ortho assistant is just a B or what. So my ortho office has 1 ortho and seriously 10 assistants. I've been stuck with the same girl the past two times and I'm seriously going to request someone else if I get her again. Last time the ortho came around and looked at my mouth and st...

I'm dying to see the pics!!!!

So today is day 3, obviously nothing's moved but I swear some of my teeth are loose! Eating is so annoying :roll: and I just went out to eat for the first time! Olive Garden is totally braces friendly! :tingrin: I don't really need anything for pain it's very tolerable just again... Annoying lol. I ...

Thank you all!!

I did get SOME expansion but not what we were hoping for. One side moved faster than the other and started tipping too far so we had to stop turning. Unfortunately they did not take it out today and I'm not really sure why. They did tell me that due to the expander not working as much we we'd like a...

Sooo I haven't posted in awhile but today I am getting my palate expander taken out and I am finally getting my braces on! I getting ceramic self ligating. I've been so excited up until 2 days who when I started thinking "oh my god what if I hate them!", "what if they look so bad!&quo...

So my ortho told me last week that he wants to use self ligating braces due to me having short teeth roots (however I'm so confused on this after I went home and looked at my X-rays from my dentist..) Anyways, I'm getting ceramic and I've always wanted pink bands at least once lol just to experience...

Catwanabee- you must have self ligating ceramics. My orthodontist showed me the difference the other day and he wants to use them on me as well. The self ligating have the metal on them but the regular ceramics don't and use rubber bands to hold them together.