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Crowding of the teeth
Patient started treatment at age eleven and wore braces for
twenty-six months. He loves his new smile. |
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Openbite: Front teeth don't
touch
Patient sucked her thumb as a young child. She started treatment
at age thirteen. She had braces and a special appliance — called
a crib — to retrain the tongue, for twenty-eight months. Now she
can bite the lettuce out of a sandwich. |
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Deep overbite: Lower front
teeth bite into palate
This adult patient (age twenty-five) required braces and jaw
surgery to correct his severe overbite, with treatment taking
two years. His problem could have been corrected without surgery
if he had been treated before he was a teenager. |
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Missing lateral incisors
This patient's lateral incisors were congenitally missing. She
had braces for twenty months to move the teeth into the correct
position, then the missing teeth were replaced with bonded
"Maryland" bridges. |
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Underbite: Lower front teeth in
front of upper teeth.
Patient's underbite was causing her jaw joint discomfort and
excessive wear patterns on her teeth. After thirty months of
treatment starting at age thirty-two, she now finds smiling and
chewing much easier. |
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Spacing of teeth
Patient was bothered by the spaces between his teeth. Braces
closed the spaces and gave him an ideal bite in twenty-four
months. Special glued-in retainers help keep the spaces closed. |
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Overbite: Protruding front
teeth
At age ten, patient had a big overbite with the top teeth
protruding beyond the bottom. She had two phases of treatment.
The first helped her jaws to grow more harmoniously; the second
aligned her teeth and bite. At age thirteen, she was proudly
displaying her new smile. |
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Non-braces treatment
Sometimes braces are not needed to get noticeable improvements
in tooth alignment. This patient was first seen at age seven for
crowding of the lower permanent teeth. A procedure was performed
to reduce the width of the adjacent baby teeth and the permanent
incisors aligned on their own in nine months. |
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Phase I
Patient's parents were concerned about both aesthetics and the
health of the erupting permanent teeth when they brought him to
the orthodontist at age eight. The lower front teeth were
crowded and they touched the palate, and the upper front teeth
were extremely displaced from their normal positions. After
twenty months of Phase I treatment with an expander and partial
braces, patient's appearance and dental function was vastly
improved. |
