Early Childhood Braces

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Early Childhood Braces

Timing is everything – even when it comes to your child’s orthodontic treatment. “Early” treatment, also called “interceptive” treatment, means treatment that is performed while some baby teeth are still present. The American Association of Orthodontists (AAO) recommends that your child’s first check-up with an orthodontist be performed when an orthodontic problem is first recognized, but no later than age 7. Why age 7? By then, your child has enough permanent teeth for an orthodontist to evaluate the developing teeth and the jaws, which in turn can provide a wealth of information. AAO orthodontists are trained to spot subtle problems even in young children.

There are generally three outcomes of an initial check-up:

  • No treatment is expected to be necessary.
  • Treatment may be needed in the future, so the child will be followed periodically while the face and jaws continue to grow.
  • There is a problem that lends itself to early treatment.

Early Childhood Braces

Interceptive Orthodontics

Space maintainers are orthodontic appliances used to manage premature baby tooth loss. They help prevent malocclusions (misalignment of teeth), overcrowding, and other orthodontic conditions. Space maintainers prevent surrounding teeth from shifting toward the empty socket where your child’s primary tooth used to be, ensuring that their adult tooth erupts properly. Interceptive orthodontic can eliminate or reduce the severity of a developing malocclusion, the complexity of orthodontic treatment, overall treatment time and cost. For more information do visit our clinic. Our expert dentist will provide you proper guidance.

Habit Breaking Appliances

Habits like thumb sucking, pacifiers, tongue thrusting and mouth breathing are common in infants, but if they persist past the first few years of life then they can drastically change the growth pattern of jaw and ruin teeth alignment. When parents fail to help kids kick off such habits, they can take help of habit breaking appliances, such appliances are of two types-removable and permanent.so if you are concerned about any of your child’s such habit schedule visit to our clinic. We will evaluate your kids’ habits and advise the habit breaking appliances that will be beneficial for your kid.

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