Patient started treatment at age 11 and wore braces for 26 months. He loves his new smile.
This patient sucked her thumb as a young child. She started treatment at age 13 and she wore braces and a special appliance — called a crib — which retrained the tongue – for 28 months. Now she can bite the lettuce in a sandwich.
This adult patient, age 25, required braces and jaw surgery to correct his severe overbite. The treatment took two years but his problem could have been corrected without surgery if he had been treated before becoming a teenager.
This patient’s lateral incisors were congenitally missing. She had braces for 20 months to move the teeth into their correct positions. Then the missing teeth were replaced by her general dentist.
This patient’s underbite was causing her jaw joint discomfort and excessive wear patterns on her teeth. After 30 months of treatment, starting at age 32, she now finds smiling and chewing easy.
This patient was bothered by the spaces between his teeth. Braces closed the spaces and gave him an ideal bite in 24 months. Special glued-in bonded retainers help keep the spaces closed.
At age ten, this patient had a big overjet with the top teeth protruding beyond the bottom. Having two phases of treatment, the first helped her jaws grow more harmoniously and the second aligned her teeth and bite. At age 13, she was proudly displaying her new smile.
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.
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 touching the palate, and the upper front teeth were extremely displaced from their normal positions. After 12 months of Phase-One treatment with an expander and partial braces, patient’s appearance and dental function were vastly improved.