Metal Mouth Message Board

Thank you Meryaten!
Your post was insightful and spot on!

I love reading all the responses, I was going nuts trying to think of every angle of the problem on my own.

waiting2smile!
The penguins are very pleased to hear from you

Okay, that sounds about similar to mine. Of course, I really can't tell anymore with all the orthos saying different stuff.

Thank you Allison! So nice to get sound advice and common sense feed back! :) Well, all three orthos have said that I'll eventually push my upper front teeth out of the gum. I have noticed that they seem to protrude more now than ten years ago, so they might be right. Yeah, Ifell all weird because m...

Yeah, like I said, I'm not worried about the way it looks on a daily basis. Just trying to gain some perspective in this jungle of information and completely opposite opinions! Such as #1 telling me my skull and bone structure does not warrant surgery, #2 suggesting surgery and #3 insisting on surge...

I posted this on the Invisalign/lingual board, but figure I'll post it here as well. And yes, there are probably a thousand similar posts, but somehow they are not turning up on the search. I have an 8 mm overjet and had not really intended to do anything about it since I'm fine with it cosmetically...

Hm.
I'm honestly not too worried about the way it looks, a close friend had Invisalign and she looked great. It's the being able to pop them out if needed is what thrills me.

Alright, there are probably a thousand similar posts, but somehow they are not turning up on the search. I have an 8 mm overbite and had not really intended to do anything about it since I'm fine with it cosmetically. But then, ta-daaah! Suddenly it turns out I need braces now (I'm 34) or in twenty ...