1. when is the best time to correct teeth
orthodontics is a very effective and direct method to improve congenital tooth deformity, so when is the best age for orthodontics? Let's take a look.
first, deciduous teeth stage: early correction, the age of treatment is about 3-6 years old, and it can be corrected by wearing oral appliances, and the course of treatment is about 6 months.
second, mixed dentition: about 7-11 years old, deciduous teeth lost early, which led to the reduction of dental arch length, and then caused the teeth to be unable to arrange. The dentition was corrected by using movable or fixed appliances and even with external plastic force.
third, the permanent dentition period of adults: generally, the best age for orthodontics is about 12-18 years old. At this time, the diagnosis of tooth deformity is relatively clear, and the correction is fast and stable during this rapid growth period.
Fourth, beauty crown is perfect indefinitely: the best age of orthodontics is mainly the above three stages. If you miss these three best ages of orthodontics, you can also do beauty crown, which is a new technology of tooth beauty, with the advantages of restoring teeth without pulling out teeth and hurting teeth.
2. Precautions for orthodontics
1. When teeth are put on orthodontics, it will hinder brushing. If teeth are not brushed well and food remains between teeth, a large number of bacteria will cause dental caries or periodontal tissue inflammation, which will destroy the whole course of treatment. Brush your teeth after meals.
2. Avoid eating hard foods, such as bone foods, crabs and nuts, and avoid eating large pieces of food.
3. If it is inconvenient to brush your teeth after meals, you can rinse your mouth with water or tea.
4. In the first few days of wearing the appliance, the teeth will feel sore and uncomfortable, and you can eat soft rice or porridge.
Orthodontics must be treated in a professional and regular outpatient clinic.
3. Misunderstanding of orthodontics
Misunderstanding 1: Only children can receive orthodontic treatment
Orthodontics has no age limit. Of course, teenagers have fast metabolism and strong adaptability, and the time required for orthodontics is relatively short. But this does not mean that orthodontics is limited to minors. Adult patients can receive orthodontics as long as the periodontal condition of their teeth allows, and people in their thirties and forties can still correct their teeth. Of course, it is early correction, early end and early benefit.
Myth 2: Corrected teeth are easy to loosen and fall off when they are old.
this is a typical pseudoscience. Confuse orthodontics with periodontal disease. To give a simple example, modern orthodontics has a history of 1 years, and when there was no orthodontics hundreds of years ago, the teeth of the elderly at that time fell more severely, which shows that tooth loss has nothing to do with orthodontics. Undeniably, the loosening degree of teeth will increase due to the stress and alveolar bone remodeling during the orthodontic treatment, but when the orthodontic treatment is over and the teeth are no longer stressed, they will recover themselves, and there is no problem of loosening and falling off in the future.
Myth 3: Orthodontics requires tooth extraction, which will affect health. A clinical study in a Swedish university found that tooth extraction will affect people's memory.
since it is scientific research, we should pay attention to evidence, and one or two individual research reports can't explain the problem at all. Tooth extraction correction is a very common and mature treatment method, and tooth extraction will not cause any adverse effects on patients' function and health. It should be said that tooth extraction treatment is also a last resort. The facial features of orientals are that the nose is not straight enough and the lips are protruding forward. In order to achieve a better facial shape, many patients (6%) need tooth extraction for correction.
Myth 4: Tooth orthodontics takes a long time and costs a lot, and the course of porcelain crown restoration is short, once and for all.
Teeth are different from machines. Tooth movement itself is a physiological process, and the speed of treatment is limited by normal physiology. Adult correction usually takes one and a half to two years. Although the treatment course of porcelain crown is short, dentures are false teeth after all, and the later maintenance and long-term prognosis (it is generally recommended to replace porcelain crowns every five to ten years) can not be ignored, and they are not lifelong restorations as some doctors advocate.
Myth 5: The braces are unsightly, which affects work and life.
Modern orthodontics technology is highly developed, and there are more and more kinds of braces, which can completely achieve invisible orthodontics. Moreover, with the development of technology, the indications of invisible correction are becoming wider and wider. Some difficult cases that were previously regarded as taboos can also be well invisible corrected, which has little impact on work and life.