Metal Mouth Message Board

It's certainly an interesting treatment path that you've been down. Excellent work on getting this far! You have me both anticipating and dreading my near future, which will be a Hyrax style expander at the age of 38. More anticipating, to be honest. I'm excited to get more of the planned treatment ...

Thanks! Yeah it's been ups and downs, as I'm sure most people here know. What's really 'no bueno' is the bottom back brackets hitting my upper teeth. One wrong bite and not only is pain radiating out of the teeth that hit, but also any teeth they are connected to that also pick up the impact through...

38! Would have loved to have gotten them earlier, especially since my angled wisdom teeth made the crowding much worse over the adult years, but c'est la vie. I'm 2 weeks in to 2-3 years... trying not to think about it. :)

1st adjustment today even though it's been just a week. The intent was to add the final brackets to the bottom, fit upper molars with metal molar bands, then take a palate mold so that the palatal expander can be custom fabricated. Unfortunately all but one of the rubber spacers that were making roo...

Hello! I'm one of those folks who probably needed braces as a kid but came from a family that couldn't afford it. Man... It's taken me close to 40 to feel confident spending the time and money to fix things, but I'm finally doing it! I had numerous consultations, and here was the general consensus: ...

I imagine the generally strong societal emphasis on appearance for adult women has a lot to do with it too. I'm a middle school teacher and I see braces pretty much across the board in the 11-15 age range regardless of gender, but when it comes to "adult braces" I'd say probably around 4 o...