Patient started treatment at age eleven and wore braces for twenty-six months. He loves his new smile. Patient sucked her thumb as a young child. She started treatment at age thirteen.
She had braces and a special appliance β called a crib β to retrain the tongue, for twenty-eight months. Now she can bite the lettuce out of a sandwich.
This adult patient age twenty-five required braces and jaw surgery to correct his severe overbite, with treatment taking two years.
His problem could have been corrected without surgery if he had been treated before he was a teenager. This patient's lateral incisors were congenitally missing. She had braces for twenty months to move the teeth into the correct position, then the missing teeth were replaced with bonded "Maryland" bridges. Patient's underbite was causing her jaw joint discomfort and excessive wear patterns on her teeth.
After thirty months of treatment starting at age thirty-two, she now finds smiling and chewing much easier. Patient was bothered by the spaces between his teeth. Braces closed the spaces and gave him an ideal bite in twenty-four months. Special glued-in retainers help keep the spaces closed.
