Metal Mouth Message Board

Ok all.. so my full brace day is on Monday May 18th.. YAY!! finally. I will finally be able to choose a color other than grey, and be a proud supporter of all metal braces wearers.. lol.. anyways, i will be sure to post pics of my tin grin, with my dark red ligs... lol!! YAY!!

My ortho gives bob bucks.. and when you get enough you can "buy"things from his case, anything from barbies.. to cd SPAMMERS LIKE ME etc. pretty neat.

I have a tooth that has always been loose, and they actually have to have me bite down on cotton to ease the pain at adjustments. I am assuming lol.. one day it wont be loose anymore. but no worries im sure its just like mine and normal.

I Know you think it may not be worth it, but in the future your bite may cause you other pain. I would do it. I wanted to only gemy top teeth straightened but my bite is off so now it braces on top and bottom. Go for it!!

Im going with A.. and F

If i would have gotten them before I was 18 they would have been free. But my parents never cared to notice, so got them when I was 21 and paid 5400!!! Yikes..

I found your story! I think you should go for the colors on the first adjustment. I was going to try to get a colored power chain but, umm, she just kinda put a grey one on and i didnt have time to object.

Well good luck tom. I cant wait to see how they look!

Oh that is so exciting, good luck tom with your b-day. I cannot WAIT until may 12 which is my official full banding date lol. It is like waiting for a child or something, so exciting. So far this adjustment is VERY painful but i can see movement already overnight which is crazy! Thanks for all the g...

lol try again... youll get it... me and computer discussion boards have our go arounds too, i usually dont win lol

HI there, I will tell you, YES you wil be able to eat. I am braced on left upper side, and it took me a good long time to be able to eat over there, and now I am back at the beginning again since my last adjustment. Its a doozy, my mouth kills right now and I have to sit at work. But it looks like y...

Wow.. now I know to look before I speak when I finally get fully banded, I had no idea that they might do those dots to be able to tell different brackets... what a novel idea.

So, I went in for third adjustment, and I got a stronger wire, and tighter power chain, a blue seperator, that is not serving the purpose that a seperator should, and overall some good news. Until now I have been partially braced, take a look at my blog in our braces stories for pictures, and now my...

Yay New hardware finally http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/521/sesame.th.jpg This is the canine finally going back into place... yay http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/2375/sesame.th.jpg This is what it looked like two months ago or so. http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/1461/sesame.th.jpg And this...

SO, I go in for my third adjustment tom. Have had the partial braces for about four months now, and they have finally started to pull my out of place canine back into its place that was left by the extracted tooth. My question for you all is... are they going to pull it down so that it sits level wi...

Oh but I have something very similar to that.. mine is called a nance. It has a retainer like substance on the wire that is lodged in the top of you mouth and its attatched to the bands on my molars. I had a hard time eating and swallowing also, but after a little while you will get used to it. I st...

Thats frickin awesome... so exciting for that progress.. wish mine would catch up with yours lol!