Metal Mouth Message Board

as far as your gums, look up gingivoplasty

i think my elastics are giving me headaches, they are super tight, anybody else get headaches wearing elastics?

i should have my braces off soon, you guys will be the first to see

Lovespain5 wrote:It's an excellent idea! There is a place called The Naked Tooth but you can't find much photos.

i thought this site did have a thread for that already but hopefully this can be one with photos

There is another sub-forum her called "Our Braces Story" at http://www.archwired.com/phpbb2/viewforum.php?f=9 which may help, and also there is a sticky that shows a time-lapsed series of daily photos that one person documented -- really pretty interesting. yeah ive seen that. im hoping f...

FlyByNight wrote:Not that I know of, but we can make this one!
http://a64.tinypic.com/wv1zja.jpg
Result after a year and a half.

they look great! ive had mine on for a while now, i hope they come out nice like this

and this could be a good place to for final results, hopefully it does

is there a place on here to look at other peoples final results? like a thread where people only post a pic of the end result of their journey?

how much does everyone pay for their braces? is anyone on payment a plan? how much do you pay a month? or how much did you pay in all when you got your braces off?

yeah take some ibuprofen and you'll be good. the pain takes maybe a week to stop totally, then it just feels like pressure. and silver is a pretty neutral color to go with

im kinda in the same position my orthos told me that im almost done but my midline is still off center from the rest of my face and one of my permanent teeth is barely slighlty crooked. looking at yours though, it looks fine from what i see. but of course youre gonna see the imperfection cause they ...

its normal, the pain settles afters a couple days

hey, i am also trying to correct my midline. orthos say my braces are almost done but my top midline is still is still off center. my bottom one is cool tho. i have pics in a new thread i posted ive decided im gonna try wearing asymmetrical elastic on one side of my mouth to correct the top midline,...

also, you can see in one of the pics my jaw kinda hangs to one side, anyway to fix that?

the orthos said im almost done with my braces, im on triangle elastics right now, he said those will be my last ones. but my top midline does not align with my nose like it should. the bottom one is ok but the top is way off. is there a class of elastics that fix this? anyone else with this problem....

[quote="strinder"][quote="herefor1thing"][quote="strinder"]I looked recently on this board to see chats about midlines and I only found minimal chats so I'm not sure how many people on here at the moment are resolving it. I'm still very early into my treatment but I'm a...