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Tooth Removal

  • 28-07-2020 5:02pm
    #1
    carzony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,780 ✭✭✭


    Hi Guys,

    I've just had my first consultation with the Orthodontist.

    My aim was to get Invisalign to straighten my top and lower arches.

    Unfortunately, He has recommended that I get a total of 4 teeth removed to make room for movement, and the old style braces as Invisalign is not an option for me.

    Is removal of teeth for braces a common procedure? I'm not to keen to go that route as it seems quite a severe step.


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  • #2
    Oral Surgeon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,240 ✭✭✭Oral Surgeon


    carzony wrote: »
    Hi Guys,

    I've just had my first consultation with the Orthodontist.

    My aim was to get Invisalign to straighten my top and lower arches.

    Unfortunately, He has recommended that I get a total of 4 teeth removed to make room for movement, and the old style braces as Invisalign is not an option for me.

    Is removal of teeth for braces a common procedure? I'm not to keen to go that route as it seems quite a severe step.

    Very commonly recommended and done...
    If you have crowding then it is one of the best/only ways to make space to align the teeth nicely....

    Google non extraction orthodontics.... often ends in a goofy result as the teeth have to be pushed forward to gain the space to align them... lots of problems with this... stability, gum and bone health, aesthetic failure...

    Ask your ortho opinion again and see....


  • #3
    carzony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,780 ✭✭✭carzony


    Oral Surgeon wrote: »
    Very commonly recommended and done...
    If you have crowding then it is one of the best/only ways to make space to align the teeth nicely....

    Google non extraction orthodontics.... often ends in a goofy result as the teeth have to be pushed forward to gain the space to align them... lots of problems with this... stability, gum and bone health, aesthetic failure...

    Ask your ortho opinion again and see....

    Thanks...

    I have arranged a consultation with another Ortho for next week.. Hopfully tooth extraction can be avoided somehow.


  • #4
    Miharo
    Registered Users Posts: 115 ✭✭Miharo


    carzony wrote: »
    Thanks...

    I have arranged a consultation with another Ortho for next week.. Hopfully tooth extraction can be avoided somehow.

    If it's the upper jaw and crowding is because of a narrow jaw theres also the option of surgery to expand the jaw and make room for the teeth. Your orthodontist should be able to tell you if that's an option or not in your case.


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