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Orthodontics

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Many people still think that it is in orthodontics using braces or surgery to be purely cosmetic measures. This is wrong: a Orthodontics is primarily even a medical procedure because only teeth that are the best set of teeth to each other and attack each other perfectly when closing the mouth, can also achieve an ideal Beißleistung.

But not just the digests food here is in the foreground, but also the development of the dentition on the life cycle. Missing an upper tooth, for example, have settled down partner, this tooth bites into the void. This lack of the opposing results in the tooth slowly moving further and further down until finally he has not sufficient support in the jaw or very wrong to grow.
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How is placed and maintained a fixed appliance?

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The placement of the fixed appliance requires great skill on the part of the specialist, but there would be no discomfort for the child.

In regular visits, usually made over a year to reach final alignment of the teeth, it is changing the relationship of the various components to regulate the action of the device.

1 .- After carefully cleaning and drying the surface of the teeth, the dentist paste clamps that make support for the wire with a special cement that attaches firmly to tooth enamel.

2 .- On the slots of the clamps is fixed steel arch wire that gradually imposes the shape of the teeth and small loops of rubber or springs to approximate or separate the teeth in the regular sessions appropriate modifications are made to adjust the machine and vary its action as the misplacement be corrected.

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The Importance of Orthodontics

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Orthodontic technique is based on the use of devices that have a slight but constant pressure on the teeth, so moving and be placed in the rightful position.

The devices can be of different types, and always tailored to the needs of each case and the “strategy” decided by the specialist: ensure proper alignment, separating or approximating teeth others, which are twisted turn, pass those are deflected inward, and so on. Are sometimes used removable appliances that can be removed and easily put back are made of a plastic plate that covers the roof or floor of mouth, which are incorporated fasteners, springs or wire ties made pressure corresponding teeth on the other cases are made in stationary positions that are left for a longer or shorter period and can only attach and remove the dentist.

They basically consist of a series of clamps that attach to the teeth and on which is fixed steel archwire that exerts some tension on certain parts.

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Tips for Malposition teeth

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When initiating treatment?
The correction of the malposition of the teeth is much easier and effective in childhood or early youth to adulthood, when the mobilization of teeth using braces is more difficult and even more upset.

But neither should be started at very early ages, while still not completed the replacement of deciduous teeth by permanent, or the jaw bones have completed their development. Generally, treatment is initiated when the specialist decides the most appropriate time after studying each case.

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Malposition of the teeth

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For a denture is considered ideal, it must meet several requirements: it must be proportionate to the dimensions of the jaws, and its component parts must meet the same level, in a uniform position, not interbreed and arranged symmetrically on both dental arches, so that the top lightly cover the bottom when you close your mouth. There are many requirements, and therefore it is difficult to see perfect teeth. Instead, it is quite common for teeth to be diverted, or grossly separated, however, overlapping, crowded.

These are common forms of malposition, although not unique because the defects can be very different and more or less marked. Apparently this is a cosmetic problem, but in reality the malposition may involve some serious problems. For example, there may also malocclusion, ie an abnormal contact between the teeth of the maxilla and the mandible, which produces difficulties in mastication or speech, or conducive to the retention of food and dental caries or periodontal disease, inflammation, etc.. Therefore defects should be corrected tooth position, and this aspect is concerned the field of dentistry called orthodontics.

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