Misunderstanding of orthodontics

Clinically, not only many patients have misunderstandings about orthodontics, but also some other stomatological doctors sometimes have the same misunderstanding. This paper makes a summary and analysis to really eliminate people's misunderstanding of orthodontics. Only everyone knows that this is a great achievement of medicine.

Myth 1 is too old to correct.

Tooth movement is a process of bone remodeling in life, so orthodontics is suitable for all ages. But different individuals have different problems, and the time to start correcting them is different. Children as young as three or four years old and elders as old as eighty or ninety years old may become the target group for correction. Whether it can be corrected or not should be answered by a professional orthodontist.

Myth 2: Teeth will loosen after orthodontics.

Teeth themselves cannot stay in the same place all their lives, but are in a balance of stability and movement. Correction is to temporarily break this balance and move the teeth through external force. Bone remodeling caused by correction brings physiological movement of teeth, and it is normal to have a certain degree of loosening temporarily during the movement. When the tooth moves to a new position, it will naturally regain its balance and stabilize again.

Myth 3 orthodontics will lose teeth when you are old.

Many people think that getting old is a normal physiological phenomenon, but it is not. Healthy teeth should accompany one's life. At present, periodontitis has become the primary cause of adult tooth loss in China, that is to say, the so-called waste teeth are mainly caused by periodontitis, and the key pathogenic factor of periodontitis is oral plaque microorganisms. There is no relationship between periodontitis and correction.

Myth # 4: Buckteeth or dentition are uneven, and seek a 7-day quick correction method.

The so-called beauty crown rapid orthodontics, known as a new technology of tooth beauty, is essentially to grind teeth down to make porcelain crowns for beauty, which is harmful to tooth health. The correct plan to change the arrangement of healthy teeth is to wear braces, which usually takes about two years. The physiological movement of teeth is a slow process, and correction must pay the price of time, and there is no shortcut.