Braces...

what about your braces?

Okay, well the pain does settle down [i absolutely promise]

Your jaw bone will be turning like jelly at the moment and I totally appreciate your pain.

If you're in a retainer, DO NOT take it out unless you absolutely have to, because it hurts like a mofo putting it back in.

Best stick to soft foods until the pain calms a little. Maybe take some ibuprofen to soothe it a teeny bit.

it's not the pain. The problem is that I really cannot chew. My lower jaw hits the brace long before my back teeth makes contact. This meant that I can not chew stuff (any stuff) to bits smaller than the size of about a marble.

Have you got an overbite?

Braces are a horrific ordeal. But if you had buckteeth like mine, then the two years are worth all the tightening and the dental cement in the long run.

Yes. A very very big one. The orthodontist said that my overbite led to my lower teeth almost hitting the upper gum.

it's not the pain. The problem is that I really cannot chew. My lower jaw hits the brace long before my back teeth makes contact. This meant that I can not chew stuff (any stuff) to bits smaller than the size of about a marble.

Ahhh, so your lower teeth are hitting the braces on your upper jaw, rightio... Hmmm... I had a slight underbite and it got corrected pretty much straight away, I think you just have to concentrate when eating on pushing your lower jaw backwards, so your bottom teeth come to the inside of your upper teeth, if that makes sense. Is there no way at all that you can get your back teeth to meet?

I had the same problem. Eat soup for about two weeks until it gets better.

what about your braces?

how exactly could it get better?

how exactly could it get better?

i had braces fixed and retainers for two years. my overbite was as bad as yours sounds. its really enoying trying to eat with a mouth full of plastic and metal, i sort of lernt to chew using the help to the plasic, its hard, always will be but as time goes on you'll adapt to it and find a new way of chewing your food. i had hell when i got fitted with fixed baces, eating after having them fitted and tightend was a nightmeare. do you have to have 'traintracks' (fixed braces)?

i had braces fixed and retainers for two years. my overbite was as bad as yours sounds. its really enoying trying to eat with a mouth full of plastic and metal, i sort of lernt to chew using the help to the plasic, its hard, always will be but as time goes on you'll adapt to it and find a new way of chewing your food. i had hell when i got fitted with fixed baces, eating after having them fitted and tightend was a nightmeare. do you have to have 'traintracks' (fixed braces)?