Metal Mouth Message Board

Hi everyone on this post - I'm 47 and my ortho has given me two options - and I prefer the shorter one where he takes one of my lower incisors out (where I have more crowding). He does have some reservations about it and seems to be trying to push me to have 4 premolars out (top and bottom) so he ca...

Hi and thank you for your reply and links to the lady who's had this done. Yes my ortho can do IPR on the uppers so I think I will stay with the option of one extraction, as I don't have teeth that stick out (or I didn't until I started with braces!) and the uppers only had one overlapping which is ...

I have had upper braces now for just over two months - waiting for extraction on lower teeth before that goes on so I feel like I've had an easy start. However, I didn't expect my upper teeth to move so quickly or to start sticking out more - I'm starting to get a slight lisp and have to concentrate...

Hi all, new to this site - had braces on upper for 2 months due to buck tooth, mild crowding on uppers, moderate crowding on lowers. All started because lower teeth were aching and all bunching up at front, plus I was told I had crossbite as lower jaw larger than upper. I opted for a compromise solu...