Madz did the expander, and actually may need to do it again. It only took her a day or so to get used to it. Her only issue was no gum. That almost killed her.

Kevy it's an appliance that's basically glued into the top of your mouth that's used to expand your pallet. You have to crank it every day or every other day with this little tool to slowly make the pallet larger.

a friend of mine from the old days had that issue. seemed it was related directly to his consumption of itallian sausage (or whatever was contained in it). bad thing was, he practically lived on the stuff.

so yeah, Im thinking something in your diet. it could also be vitamin supplements you might be taking. B vitamins surely change..uh...certain biological aspects in me...as well as large amounts of garlic

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I wonder if we've had this discussion before.

Poor Madz! Was she able to eat pizza? That's Tori's big concern.

Every time she makes fun of my braces, I make a slow turning gesture with my hand and she goes a little pale.:evil:

I am soooo in the mood for BBQ today...

The turning isn't easy. It's so hard to see in their tiny mouths. I found a dential mirror a huge help when you can't quite get the tool to work right. But it doesn't hurt them even though they try to tell you it does.

Pizza was fine. The things she had trouble with were harder foods. The expander things glue over the molars so you don't have quite the chew power. Apples & Carrots were kind of hard.

She's in waiting mode right now until a few more teeth come out. Her pallet was so small her upper teeth actually fit inside her lower ones. So they may have to expand some more later.

Ya, it does. I had one and it hurt like a bitch. My mom never believed me because the ortho said it shouldn't hurt. But it did. A lot. :(

Well, Tori got a week's reprieve- the expander didn't fit properly and they had to make another impression. Next try is next Tuesday.

Mine didn't hurt either !

I had an expander on my bottom teeth. Right after I got my retainer off, in came my impacted wisdom teeth. My expander was called a spring loaded retainer. It had a spring to push out the tooth that had moved because of the wisdom teeth. It had a screw to force my mouth to make room for the tooth. Everytime I took it off the tooth would make an audible POP and go right back where it was. It hurt like HELL! I finally told my mom I would deal with the crooked tooth and tossed the retainer.