Metal Mouth Message Board

Right now I only have top braces (bottoms in approx. 2 months). I'm just wondering if anyone likes playing with their hooks attached to their brackets? I do!! Sometimes I'll sit in class and rub my tongue on them. My hooks are on my canine's I think..? I'm excited for when I get elastics so that my hooks don't just sit there. I just want my bottoms on now!!

I find myself idly tonguing my brackets all the time, to the point that I've had to consciously tell myself not to do it because I was rubbing my tongue raw. I'm guessing that in a few months, it won't be so intriguing to my tongue.

Just wait until you get elastics (assuming you do get them that is) and you'll start plucking tunes on them . My cat gets completely fascinated when I do this and will stare at my mouth so now it's gotten to the point that I do it just for my cat's reaction. I also rub my tongue on my elastics too since they're right towards the front of my mouth.

um no, but that's ok. really. btw, KK, is that a dancing tube of toothpaste? or do I need my glasses rx changed?? or is it just Monday?? and I'm imagining all this, but it's not really happening.

My ortho said I will prbably get elasatics to bring one of the jaws forward... I forget which one but I do have an overbite... If that helps!

Ok so I USED to play with my hooks but not with my tongue, just my bottom lip. That was up until the day I stabbed the inside of my mouth with the hook. Everytime I tried to talk the hook would keep getting caught in the wound and just irritated it more and more . Needless to say I go out of that habit very quickly.

Ok.. looks like I'm one of few... I must be strange!

Lol... I do it too...your not strange ilovemacs. I run my tongue along my braces quite a lot but sometimes I forget I have them already! I have heaps of hooks on my bottom brackets. I can't wait til I get elastics too!!

Yay!!

I have both, but I only have them on my bottom teeth. Does that mean, I will need elastics?

-mariah

Never but my hooks sure like to play with me.

its nice to see that other people have rubbed the tongues raw by playing with their braces. I couldnt figure out why my tongue felt like i had burnt my tongue, it was cuz i unconsiously run my tongue over them all the time. its been better though. And good luck with the elastics guys.

For a period I coudn't stop touching it and was so overly concious about it, and well.. I found a picture taken off me when not knowing, and it didn't look good with me touching my braces lol..to get out food I guess haha..toothbrush next...
anyway, now I'm like KK(I think she wrote it), I forget I have them...

Sometimes mine feels burnt too!

Maybe it's a Macintosh-lover's thing, but I, too, find myself constantly messing with my brackets! I have favorites, like the very back left one where the wire hooks in, or a spot between brackets where I like to mess with the wire itself. I'll probably get in trouble for it at my adjustment!