Metal Mouth Message Board

Hi all, I am currently digging through the archives looking for information on dental wax. I am about to get my braces pretty soon and is currently creating a list of items I need to order from the US (I live in the Caribbean so many things are unavailable). What I would like to know is, approximate...

Thanks guys....i will be looking into another opinion for sure.

Hi all I am now beginning my braces journey (will do my story when i get them in). I went for a second consultation yesterday with another orthodontist and the two diagnoses couldn't be more different. I have crowding on the bottom, an 8mm overjet and crowding is beginning at the top. My first ortho...

Hi all, went for my first consultation today. Have another one on the 28th of January next year. It was pretty interesting, i won't have to do surgery or spacers or anything really...and thank goodness I had 2 teeth extracted earlier this yr so I wont have to do any more extractions. Yay me. Its cos...

Hey all, I'm scheduled for my very first consultation at the beginning of January, and I'm a bit curious as to what this first consultation is like. Do they do Xrays? Just ask questions? Do you get costings and stuff on this visit?

Would appreciate some feedback

Thanks everyone. So right Caitlin....i cant wait to get it done....i'm taking earlier advice and not tell anyone again, my family are telling me to get it done as soon as possible if i see fit...im so happy for that

It is so frustrating, everytime i confide in a friend that i am thinking of getting braces for my overbite and jumbled teeth, they keep saying, oh no, i dont like braces, your teeth are not that bad are they? do you have to do that? I really...really want this for myself, but as in my last post, im ...

Thank you! I am definitely going to pursue this. I am however getting mixed reviews from ppl i know about getting braces. But I have already made my mind.

Hi all, pretty new to the forum. Im seriously thinking of getting braces. Im 25 years old and have some severly jumbled bottom teeth. I could have lived with that, but i realised recently one of my top front teeth is shifting a bit and its causing some concern. Any advice on this? Im a bit scared it...