At Foxxi, people of all ages receive the same amount of special attention and orthodontics nowadays isn’t just the privilege of the youth!
What are our most common tasks in adulthood?
It is an everyday occurrence at our office having a mother follow the treatment of their child and muse what pity it is that nobody cared about these things back in the day. There is no way one can rectify this as an adult, is there?
Of course there is! We can practically offer you a solution for every problem!
By the time we reach adulthood, our bite is already set in a more or less good but at least stable position. In most cases, it isn’t worth disturbing, we merely align the ‘shop window’, in other words the front teeth. This usually means a quick intervention of a couple of months with Invisalign.
More and more people are affected by the silent disease of the teeth, periodontal disease. In such cases, the peridontium slowly painlessly decays and we only notice the problem when the teeth start loosening. The shifting teeth are exposed to adverse forces, further aggravating the situation. In these cases, orthodontics is the one that can help place loose teeth into their required positions relatively fast, then align them. With this method, the life expectancy of weakened teeth can be drawn out by a good few years!
In case speech therapy treatment wasn’t received in childhood and a small tongue-thrust swallowing remains in adulthood, it is never too late to work on it! The combined orthodontic and speech therapy treatments can dramatically improve an open bite and all that comes with it within a short period of time!
In many cases, the best solution for saving teeth in bad condition is giving them crowns. This, however, requires room since the crown will usually be a little bit thicker than the original shape of the tooth. In such cases, we either have to chisel away more of the pillar tooth which leads to performing root canal treatment or we have to make room. The ideal placement of the pillar teeth is made fast and simple by using orthodontic appliances!
Often, the best solution for replacing lost teeth is an implant. In many cases, their placement is prevented by the tilt of the neighbouring teeth but the bone supply may not be ideal at the place of insertion either. The tilt of the teeth can be efficiently dealt with by fixed or aligner appliances, however, in many cases, we can help with the problem of the missing bone as well by tooth movement.
Jaw clicking and pain are common complaints, regardless of the age group. It can have many root causes and the clicking itself may stem from more than one place but we can state that one of the root causes that generate such kinds of problems is the abnormal positioning of the teeth. At our office, we will help you uncover the cause of the clicking or we can rectify the issue with the help of an orthodontic appliance or if there is something else behind it, we can refer you to a relevant specialist.
A special field of orthodontics is orthognathic surgery preparation. These interventions can only be done in adulthood and significant permanent changes can be achieved on the levels of both dentition and facial characteristics! At Foxxi, we deal with surgical orthodontics at a priority level, thus, this treatment trend has its own sub page on our website: Surgical orthodontics
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