Nowadays, with the improvement of living standards and the enhancement of people's awareness of health care, dental health has become a fashionable topic of concern. However, ordinary citizens lack a correct understanding of when to correct their teeth, and often miss the best opportunity for treatment.
With the summer vacation coming, there is an endless stream of patients consulting the orthodontic Department of major hospitals. More and more young children or adults suffering from 'buckteeth' and 'Di Bao Tian teeth' and other oral deformities have joined the ranks of orthodontists.
Experts suggest that from childhood, if a person wants to have a pair of neat and beautiful teeth with perfect function, he must have regular examination; if he finds any abnormal problems in the development of the gums or the arrangement of the teeth, he should be judged by an orthodontist. Because of the influence of heredity or environment, the development of gums and teeth has great individual differences.
For example, for general dentition deformity, the more appropriate time for correction is about 12 years old (all the deciduous teeth before the first permanent molar have been replaced), but some people's teeth have been replaced earlier, and all the deciduous teeth may fall off when they are about 10 years old. For some people, the rapid growth of puberty lags behind, and there may be residual deciduous teeth when they are 14 or 15 years old. Then the time for these two types of patients to start treatment will be three or four years different .
According to the characteristics of a person's tooth, jaw and face development, the "reverse occlusion" deformity of the anterior teeth in childhood is commonly known as "Di Bao Tian". If it is found early, the simplest appliance can work in one or two months; After the 6-year-old tooth changing period, the growth of the lower 1 / 3 of the face is slightly later than that of the middle and upper parts of the face. Therefore, for the yellow people who are prone to mandibular hypoplasia, some patients' facial deformities can be corrected by special 'orthodontic' measures - functional correction (usually implemented at the age of 8-10). If the treatment is delayed until the age of 12, the effect of facial correction will be greatly reduced.
For many adults who have missed the best opportunity, but want to improve their facial beauty or oral function by orthodontic treatment, please rest assured that the gums of teeth can move under the traction of external force all their lives. As long as the orthodontic treatment is scientific and regular, the goal of reasonable orthodontic treatment can be achieved.
In addition, another extreme case is a serious facial and dental deformity caused by heredity, such as' huge Chin 'or a small jaw like a bird's beak. The fundamental problem can not be solved only by orthodontics. Such patients can only wait for adults to do facial plastic surgery.