Be it a kid or an adult – everyone can get braces. Your oral health contributes to your overall health, and if your mouth isn’t feeling good, chances are your entire body won’t feel good either. People who require braces often see the benefits that they provide.
For instance, braces can help you achieve that picture-perfect smile and a great body posture while preventing potentially serious health issues such as mouth breathing, habitual snoring, clenching and grinding of teeth, amongst others.
Teeth crowding is a condition in which neighbouring teeth overlap one another to a certain degree, creating a crooked appearance in the dental arches. The lack of proper arch form or crowded teeth can affect the way the jaw closes or deviates and can strain the TMJ. It can also narrow the space for the tongue to rest. Braces are one of the most commonly used treatments for correcting teeth crowding.
However, additional treatments like Myofunctional Therapy and/or Orthopedic Appliances may be required to correct jaw growth and underlying causes of teeth crowding, such as mouth breathing, incorrect swallowing pattern, etc.
Teeth crowding also makes it difficult to clean your teeth thoroughly, leading to tartar build-up, which can cause tooth decay. Thus, while braces can correct teeth crowding, you need to consult with an airway-focused dentist, who will suggest appropriate orthodontic or orthopedic appliances. This will help straighten your teeth and correct & improve the jaw, TMJ and airway structure.
TMJ is short for temporomandibular joint. You have this joint on each side of your jaw. It attaches your jaw to the bottom of your skull. The muscles near TMJ open and close your mouth. If this joint is compressed or unable to move correctly, you can suffer from TMJ disorder which causes TMJ pain.
Traditional braces and aligners often push the teeth, jaw and the TMJ behind in a compressed position. Gneuromuscular Orthotics followed by adult braces using concepts of Gneuromuscular Orthopedics and Airway Orthodontics are one of the most common and effective treatments for TMJ. If TMJ pain is the result of problems with your bite, straightening your teeth and aligning your jaw with braces is the perfect solution.
If TMJ pain is caused by teeth grinding or jaw clenching, Gneuromuscular Orthotics followed by adult braces using concepts of Gneuromuscular Orthopedics and Airway Orthodontics can help, as teeth grinding or jaw clenching is mostly caused due to misaligned teeth and incorrect body posture. Even if your teeth are straight, you can have jaw alignment problems which can be solved by braces as well.
Adults with airway obstruction usually benefit from oral appliances that guide the development of their upper and lower jaws. If you experience mouth breathing and snoring, then Myofunctional Therapy in conjuction with braces using concepts of Airway Orthodontics and Orthopedic appliances can help widen your mouth, thereby improving your airways, which can help prevent/treat mouth breathing and snoring.
Myofunctional Therapy, Tongue Posture and braces using concepts of Airway Orthodontics and Orthopedic appliances are the primary steps to treat obstructive sleep apnea caused by misaligned teeth. Braces and Orthopedic appliances slowly but methodically move teeth and jaw out of their incorrect positions and into positions where they won’t block the airway. These appliances can be used to treat children’s and adults’ sleep apnea.
There is one more way of solving your dental problems, and that is Airway orthodontics. Unlike traditional orthodontics, it focuses beyond the teeth by including a thorough examination of the throat, face, nose, neck, and muscles of the tongue to render appropriate treatment.
To achieve this, the orthodontist uses:
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