How do I know if I need orthodontic treatment?
Only your dentist or orthodontist can determine if you need orthodontic treatment based on diagnostic elements such as full dental and medical history, clinical exam, plaster models of your teeth, x-rays and photographs. In accordance with the diagnosis, your orthodontist or dentist will decide if you need orthodontic treatment and develop a treatment plan that suits your needs.
If you have any of the following conditions, you may need orthodontic treatment:
* Overbite: The crowns of the maxillary anterior teeth almost completely cover the crowns of the lower teeth.
* Underbite: The patient has an aspect of “bulldog, or lower teeth too far forward or the upper is positioned too far back.
* Crossbite: is when you bite normally, the upper teeth do not fall slightly ahead of previous lower or slightly outside the lower teeth later.
* Open bite: space that occurs between the biting surfaces of teeth when from somewhere above the rest are closed.
* Misplaced midline: Occurs when the imaginary line that divides in the middle to upper anterior teeth are not aligned with the lower teeth.
* Spacing: separations or spaces between teeth as a result of missing parts or teeth that do not occupy the entire space.
* Crowding: When teeth are too large to be accommodated in the space provided by the jaws.