Metal Mouth Message Board

Over the weekend I started having a lot of pain from wires poking me in the cheeks. I got completely fed up with having a mouthful of wax yesterday, so I gave the office a call to see if they could squeeze me in today for a little wire snipping. Fortunately for me, they had an open spot at 12:45 pm....

I will be turning 30 in a few weeks, so I decided to get myself a rather unconventional birthday present - braces! This is my story. :D Even though my smile isn't "that bad" (as people have told me for yeeeeears now), it has bothered me since I started losing my baby teeth! The very first ...

Thank you all SO much for your responses...they really cheered me up and gave me the encouragement to hang in there! :mrgreen: Things have improved a lot. I'm getting faster at flossing and the throbbing tooth pain has greatly decreased. I've also *gasp* been able to eat a little bit of non-total-mu...

I don't think I fully comprehended what I was getting myself into! I am feeling regretful and quite grumpy (due to hunger) about braces right now. It hurts to suck things through a straw, it feels like it takes about an hour to floss, and I just learned the hard way that I think I'll have to give up...

I'm getting ceramic braces on the top in 8 days and have already been enjoying foods I know I will have to avoid when the brace goes on. I absolutely adore Curry and it will be the food I miss most. Any heads up from others on foods that stain that we should avoid? From what I've read, it appears t...

I ate tons of steak in the weeks before getting braces. But turns out I can still eat that anyway. The thing that bothers me the most is not eating tortilla chips! Oh noooo, I'd forgotten all about tortilla chips! :shock: They are now being added to my dinner plan. It doesn't exactly go together, b...

I am definitely planning on having one! I will be getting clear braces on top and metal on the bottom, so I intend on eating a boatload of curry the night before I get braced. It would be nice to avoid this top staining offender during treatment, so I hope to get any cravings for curry out of my sys...

Glad to hear that this is the worst part of having braces.

I am counting down the hours until 3:00 on Friday (when they come out) at this point.

I am so with you on this!! I got my spacers put in last Friday and I cannot wait to get them out. Despite taking ibuprofen quite diligently, my mouth is still very unhappy. I feel slightly cheated because I had to start my "soft boring foods for braces" diet early since it hurts to chew. A...

Just in case anyone was curious...

I received a call back from my ortho's office this morning, and they said it was okay that my spacer broke! I was told that it was unnecessary to come in to have it replaced, and we would just proceed as planned with my appointment on Friday.

Hello all, I am getting my braces put on this Friday. As I've read, it is highly recommended that you go into this appointment with a lot of lip balm/chap stick on your lips. Do you have a personal favorite or a trusty stand by? Please let me know as I would definitely appreciate this information be...

How do y'all get your tooth brushing gear into the restroom? Do you just carry everything in your hands or do you have a little kit, box, etc.?

Later this week I am getting braces as a present to myself for the big 3-0!

Most people think this is a little odd, but I know that the gift of a wonderful smile will truly make me happy.

Hello...I am new to this forum. I will be getting braces on September 2nd, and in preparation for this event, I received spacers yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately, later that evening, one of the spacers broke (there is an actual hole in it!) and worked its way out from in between my teeth. How bad ...