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Let’s guess! Your teeth don’t meet correctly when you bite because they’re crowded or crooked, and you need a permanent solution to this, right? You also might be worried about damaging your teeth and find it hard to keep them clean. Well, let’s introduce you to braces or orthodontics, which hold the key to ending your struggle!
Orthodontics is a specialty of dentistry that aims at improving the alignment of crooked or crowded teeth and treating bite problems or malocclusion. Such problems can arise out of injuries, bad habits, or hereditary reasons.
The orthodontic treatment depends on using orthodontic devices, which can be fixed (such as braces) or removable (such as aligners, headgear, and retainers).
Orthodontics carries both therapeutic and aesthetic benefits. The treatment leads to better chewing function and improves the appearance of the mouth. In short, the treatment can grant you the following benefits:
Dentists usually suggest orthodontic treatment for people with fully developed teeth. For children, this happens around 12 or 13 years. Your dentist may suggest orthodontic treatment for you in case you have one of the following problems:
Orthodontic treatment needs around 18 and 24 months to be completed, depending on the complexity of the problem. The steps of the treatment involve the following:
The first appointment involves the placement of braces. This process requires time and patience and starts by providing a place to cement on the brackets to prepare the surface of the teeth and place the first wire. Based on predetermined positions, your orthodontist cements the brackets in place after priming your teeth.
To insert the first wire, your orthodontist cuts the right length of the wire and may insert bends into the wire to encourage faster movements for the teeth into the new positions. Furthermore, they place the wire into the brackets and close their doors.
After 3-4 weeks, you must visit your orthodontist again to do the right adjustments. This process involves shortening the wire, inserting a new one, or bending it again. Patients usually need to visit their orthodontists repeatedly to adjust the wire to manipulate the teeth’s position in a different way as needed.
Once your teeth occupied the right positions, your orthodontist finishes the treatment by removing the braces. Brace removal is usually simple and doesn’t involve any sort of pain.
Orthodontic treatment provides great advantages, but it also has some disadvantages that you need to be aware of. For instance, not all people get their desired outcome from the treatment. In addition, orthodontic treatment contributes to the following risks:
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– The best age to start receiving orthodontics depends on the type of abnormalities or deformities that need treatment.
– But the child may need to see an orthodontist before he reaches the age of 7 years to start treatment if necessary.
– The earlier patients are seen by a doctor, the more likely they will receive easier and more successful treatment.
– The length of treatment varies depending on the type and severity of the jaw problem and the age and collaboration of the patient.
– The treatment period lasts about two years.
– The patient visits the doctor every 4 to 6 weeks on average.
– Avoid chewing gum and sweets.
– Chew food and fruits into small pieces and use the back molars to crunch them.
– Avoid using your front teeth to chew foods such as fruits, pizza, toast, apples, cucumbers, and cabbage.
Tooth sensitivity occurs when the gums recede from the teeth or when gum tissue is lost and the tooth root becomes exposed below the gum.
In this case, the severity of jaw problems will increase and the patient may need to extract their teeth or undergo jaw surgery.
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