Orthodontics includes a wide range, which usually refers to the treatment process of correcting teeth with irregular arrangement, abnormal tooth shape and abnormal tooth color through oral technical means. There are many methods of orthodontics, such as resin veneer, porcelain veneer, porcelain teeth, orthodontics and so on. We should choose the treatment method according to the actual situation of individual teeth and the type of tooth deformity. , and then combined with personal needs. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages, and different people have their own preferences, so we need to communicate directly with doctors to determine the plan during the examination.

Although the growth and development of adults have stopped and the external morphology of bones has stabilized, the ability of regeneration and reconstruction inside bones still exists (such as healing after fracture). Generally speaking, if adults do not have severe periodontitis, their teeth can be corrected. For 60-year-old adults and 12-year-old children, there is not much difference in the influence of orthodontic force on healthy tooth movement.

Adult orthodontists in Europe and America account for more than 1/3 of orthodontic patients. The number of patients corrected by the author is 8 1 year, and there are many people aged 50-60. What needs to be emphasized here is that the older you get, the more difficult it may be to correct it; Adult rigid maxillofacial skeletal deformities can only be solved by surgery, and simple orthodontics can only solve their dental problems.