Straighten Your Teeth: MALALIGMENT of your teeth can have a huge impact on your self-confidence. It may decrease your social activities as you may feel uncomfortable smiling and laughing socially and have an impact on your self-esteem. not only appearance but functions like chewing and speech are also affected due to malaligned teeth. The patient facial profile is also affected.
Tooth Malaligment may be due to skeletal abnormality or adverse habits such as thumb sucking, mouth breathing, and tongue thrusting.
Several ways have been introduced in dentistry to correct Malaligment of teeth.
4 ways to straighten your teeth:
- Orthodontic Braces:
Metal or ceramic braces (Regular Braces) are applied on the tooth surface and a metal wire of a particular gauge is passed along the brackets. These
applied forces cause your teeth to straighten in a minimum of 1 year. There may be a necessity to extract some premolar teeth according to the condition of your tooth position. Straightening your teeth using proper orthodontic forces is by far the best way to correct your bite.
- Dental bonding:
Dental composites are bonded on the tooth surfaces in case of any fractured surface or crooked or chipped surface. Dental bonding is usually used to correct front teeth anomalies such as diastema closure.
3. Dental Aligners:
Aligners are transparent retainers customized as per the patient’s requirements. An intraoral digital scan is taken and a transparent retainer set is provided to the patient. The patient is asked to wear it for 22 hours a day except while eating. The major disadvantage of this is the entire control of the patient is in their hands of themselves. Usually, as soon as patients start feeling pressure on their teeth some tend to discontinue the treatment. Also, this is an expensive treatment for straightening teeth.
4. Crown and bridge:
For mild to moderate tooth malalignment crowns or bridges are given to the teeth in such a way that they appear to be in alignment. For this, the involved teeth have to undergo root canal treatment as sometimes more portions of the tooth need to be trimmed in order to achieve alignment.
Why should you straighten your teeth?
Crowded or crooked malaligned teeth often tend to cause gum diseases in the future. Hygiene is very difficult to maintain in such areas. Further gum recession,
bone resorption and tooth mobility follow.
So straighten your teeth with the Best Cosmetic Dentist in Pune and build your confidence.
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