Metal Mouth Message Board

39 years and 10 months :)

I made some melon and prosciutto for a picnic, thinking that the soft, ripe cantaloupe and thin ham would be easy to eat with braces. It was good, bit I ended up with strings of fat wrapped around my wires for the rest of the evening since the only facilities were porta-potties :-)

I have brackets on all my teeth except my 4 wisdom teeth. My archwires currently end at my first molars. My ortho said that she won't connect the second molars until I have thicker wires. At my first adjustment (8 weeks post braces) she said that the second molars would probably get attached at my n...

Thanks!

Hi everyone, I've been slowly becoming addicted to this site and decided to finally join you all. Like many on this site, I needed braces when I was a kid, but we couldn't afford it. I was a poor student for a long time (4 years undergrad and 6 years graduate school) bad then I lived abroad for 7 ye...