Metal Mouth Message Board

I get my braces off tomorrow (for sure); it will be interesting to get some tips and whatnot.

I swear the worst thing ive had to endure in my over 2 years of braces has been rubber bands; ive had them since day 1 and it always feel like the 1st 2 or 3 days of different elastics/rubber bands; or a new way to put them on is like getting attacked by the animal on the bag. This time its a silly ...

Well theres quite a different variety of different "less obvious" brands/materials of brackets; so i think staining would vary as well. But anywho; pretty much everything else is very likely to stain at some point anyways; so i think that kinda nullifies "less obvious" brackets a...

I've also got a bit of an overjet, will elasastic help that too? also, what about invisalign? I had a slight overjet before and it got fixed without elastics; though i have had elastics to fix a lot of other issues (crossbite of teeth in top right and left was first). Pretty much the overjet got sl...

Hopefully it doesnt have a negative effect because the broken part is on the bottom row of teeth on the right side and not towards the middle of my bottom row of teeth (where i actually had a small gap); it shouldnt do much because it happened today and i go to my Orthodontist tomorrow right? 1 week...

1. Yes you could stop treatment mid way; you would just need to request treatment to stop and depending on how far you got there may be money forfeited to the ortho for their time/effort up to that point. 2. There should be; but im not an Orthodontist. 3. Im unsure. And yes you can post pictures; yo...

The most important thing to realize here is that most people wont care that you got braces. Sure a lot of people will (probably) notice; but they wont be drawing attention to you for it or mock you or anything like that. So; you should decide whats most important to you; clear often has bigger brack...

Debrace date is November 6th. There isnt much that i absolutely hated about braces; just lots of tiny annoyances. More than anything im looking forward to not having food stuck in between the wires and my teeth; which i really dont have time to clean out of my teeth until lunch on my workdays. I may...

Ive had them for 8 months; they rebuilt them a couple timrs, and then they got rid of whatever didnt just wear off over time.

Go with one you will feel good about staying with; with a good amount of experience wiuld be good too.

You are lucky if you can avoid elastics for a while; ive had elastics for as long as ive had braces; like literally since day 1.

Is there a usual time you ask when your de-bracing date is? I'm only just a month in and my treatment is estimated at 16 mths (i know hahah) but I guess I could ask as early as 6 months like yourself? I You could ask, but so early they would probably just be guessing; first mention i heard of setti...

Pretty good results for only 6 months; im supposed to be debraced in about 1 month; but thats only the half of it for me (financially) because i need 2 Dental Implants as well.

I will definitely get the 2 implants; just that same as before finances are an issue; but hopefully things go well.

Cant say that i was bothered by much except for sharp ends of wire on a few occasions; once was particularly bad and resulted in a very painful cut; but it healed quick once i got it clipped. So try to make sure you dont have any sharp ends before i leave after any appointment; also sharp ends can s...