Metal Mouth Message Board

I'll make sure to book a cleaning then :) Thank you for your insight. Today is not a good day. I slept for 10 hours (pain always makes me very tired) and I can't do anything. I'm hungry but already tired of smoothies and soups. I don't think I can bite into pasta... I hope it gets better soon. My de...

Your smile looks so good with braces! It's almost like jewellery instead of braces

I soo get what you mean about the ceramic brackets being bigger than expected. I had had metal braces on high school, and so I kind of thought I knew what to expect this second time around. WRONG! I've got ceramic on the top (the social 6) and metal everywhere else, but it took me a LONG time to ge...

I've just been to my first adjustment! I also got my bottom self-ligating ceramics fitted. It feels as though my lower lip doesn't quite fit the brace. My lip keeps sliding down when I smile, which annoys me because then it's more obvious I have braces. I wasn't prepared for how thick the brackets w...

Omg, the pictures are very big! These next pictures show how my smile looked from the side before getting braced. I have a very pointy arch, I think my ortho called it something fancier, but I can't remember what it was. I also find it very difficult to post these pictures :oops: http://i61.tinypic....

I decided to start my own story. Reading other people's stories was very helpful for me when I started considering braces. I'm soon 27 years old. When I was 12 the dentist told me I needed braces. Stupid as I was, I downright refused. How I wish I could go back and tell my inner 12-year-old to shut ...

Morning and evening: 1. Electric toothbrush 2. Waterpik 3. Sometimes interdental brush between some teeth (there's not enough space between most of them) 4. Mouthwash with flouride After lunch, dinner and snacks if home: 1. Electric toothbrush 2. Waterpik After lunch, dinner and snacks if away from...

Thank you all! This forum is amazing sometimes I decided not to call my ortho, but to wait with my worries until my first adjustment 22/1. I feel calmed hearing from you.

I'd love to see some photos of your progress, winwired! Maybe you're not comfortable with uploading pictures, but I just had to ask

So I just notice that I can wiggle the wire that sticks out of my back molar tube. I guess that's pretty normal considering that this is my first and very thin wire. What worries me though is that I'm able to wiggle the wire between my back molar tube and the closest bracket. Isn't the wire supposed...

Thank you all for your replies. I think it's rather brave of you to hold speeches and talk at work in front of lots of people when newly braced. I guess it's different for everybody how the speech is affected in the long run. I'm glad to report that my speech has gotten BETTER although it is by no m...

Congratulations!

I got braces a week ago, at 26 (soon 27). They tried to put braces on me when I was 12, but I refused. If I could go back to my inner twelve year old I would tell her to shut the f up and get braced.

[quote="chell"]I have the first kind (self-ligating). I believe I even have the exact brand. If I were you I'd probably go with the self-ligating ones. I don't think they are that much more visible than the ones with clear ligatures. Also, you're only getting them on your bottom teeth that...

Oh, just have to tell something funny. Yesterday in class, we were supposed to be divided into different groups for discussion. The professor asked us to say a number out loud 1-6, and as we went around the number would decide which group you ended up in. As my classmates started to say the numbers,...