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Considering this forum is pretty much the only forum on the internet that is exclusively about braces - the idea of "alternative" orthodontics spamming this board with advertisements disguised as patient horror stories is pretty lucrative. It's free, its pretty much guaranteed that anyone ...

I had a crossbite similar to yours on one side. I could see the difference after about a month, and after 3 months my ortho said he was "satisfied" with the correction. As far as surgery - if I could go back and do it again I would have done the surgery (if money wasn't an issue). SARPE is...

Obviously its not the aesthetic ideal - but its not unusual. It could be caused by difference in the gumline, or a mandibular can't (jaw not perfectly horizontal), or one tooth more erupted than the other. Whether or not you can fix it depends on the cause, but I certainly wouldn't worry too much ab...

You aren't committed to one person just because you have had x-rays. If you paid for the x-rays, then that office is obligated to release them to whomever you ask them to. If they took them for their own diagnostics (as in, you didn't pay for the consultation) then you can ask them, although if they...

It sounds to me like you would have a difficult case as from what you wrote you can't necessarily attribute the cause of your other dental problems to your orthodontist. He can easily blame poor hygiene on your part as to the cause of your teeth continually becoming infected.

I had a similar experience. One side of my bite would easily "collapse" when elastic pressure was placed there. The other side of my bite refused to even budge - my left lateral incisor actually refused to move during my entire treatment, and we ended up taking the braces off with less tha...

Honestly, I hope she is a spammer, because I feel terrible for her daughter. It can't be easy having a mother telling you how messed up your face is when it's hard enough just being a 13 year old girl... First of all, I don't tell my now 16 year old daughter how messed up her face is. I talk to her...

I'm pretty sure that momonamission is just a cleverly disguised spammer. Every once and a while this board gets spammed with people using overly exaggerated stories about how extractions "ruined their life" and then go on to talk about how functional orthodontics is the "new age"...

I only briefly looked at the clinical trials but one thing that stuck out at me that should make you skeptical: None of the studies actually evaluated the change in total treatment time from bonding to debonding. The studies limited their quantitative evaluations to only the "tooth movement&quo...

This is completely normal. They have to move teeth into weird positions in the process of putting them in their final position. It isn't as easy as just lining the teeth up in one shot.

I'm not saying he needed to lose weight, im just saying you could achieve the same effect by doing so. Getting full orthodontic treatment will change your facial aesthetics. The change is very subtle, but its definitely there. I honestly didn't realize the changes until I was finally finished with t...

Looks like a unilateral crossbite.

Hard to tell if surgery is needed b/c we can't see your molar relationship.

What you are doing by lifting your face up is simply giving your jaw more definition and making cheeks appear fuller.

You can achieve the same effect by losing weight.

Am I the only one who was instructed to wear plastic retainer full time for 3 days then just nightly?

Studies were performed by "American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons." That is basically like saying "a series of studies performed by the association of Montsanto and other food monopolies show that humans who don't consume genetically modified foods are associated with...

If you are referring to the canines on the bottom arch - I think its a lot harder to intrude those teeth because of the anatomy of the lower jaw. They can level the bite plane, but the bite is leveled through tipping of the anterior teeth rather than intrusion, so the gum lines will stay relatively ...