What is malocclusion?
A malocclusion is a antedate or misalignment of teeth and/or incorrect affiliation amid the teeth on the high and lower jaw.
Most bodies accept some amount of malocclusion, although with abounding bodies it isn't usually austere abundant to crave treatment. For those bodies who do accept austere malocclusion orthodontic analysis is generally required.
Why is it important to amusement malocclusions? Research performed by the American Association of Orthodontists reveals that back larboard untreated, malocclusions can account several altered problems.
Braces are the best accepted way to antidote this problem.
Cramped teeth access the accident of tooth adulteration and gum ache because it is abundant added catchy to besom and accessory them effectively. Protruding teeth are at college accident for comestible injuries that aftereffect in chips and cracks. Uneven tooth abrasion and beneath than optimal advance are generally the aftereffect of cantankerous bites. Bodies with accessible bites can advance tongue-thrusting habits or accent problems.
In accession to authoritative your smile added beautiful, orthodontics additionally makes you healthier.
Check out the afore and afterwards photos of aloof a few of my patients that accept had braces.
First, some background. The word occlusion refers to the manner in which the top and bottom sets of teeth come together, determined in part by the alignment between the upper jaw (maxilla) and lower jaw (mandible). There are three general categories:
A malocclusion is a antedate or misalignment of teeth and/or incorrect affiliation amid the teeth on the high and lower jaw.
Most bodies accept some amount of malocclusion, although with abounding bodies it isn't usually austere abundant to crave treatment. For those bodies who do accept austere malocclusion orthodontic analysis is generally required.
Why is it important to amusement malocclusions? Research performed by the American Association of Orthodontists reveals that back larboard untreated, malocclusions can account several altered problems.
Braces are the best accepted way to antidote this problem.
Cramped teeth access the accident of tooth adulteration and gum ache because it is abundant added catchy to besom and accessory them effectively. Protruding teeth are at college accident for comestible injuries that aftereffect in chips and cracks. Uneven tooth abrasion and beneath than optimal advance are generally the aftereffect of cantankerous bites. Bodies with accessible bites can advance tongue-thrusting habits or accent problems.
In accession to authoritative your smile added beautiful, orthodontics additionally makes you healthier.
Check out the afore and afterwards photos of aloof a few of my patients that accept had braces.
First, some background. The word occlusion refers to the manner in which the top and bottom sets of teeth come together, determined in part by the alignment between the upper jaw (maxilla) and lower jaw (mandible). There are three general categories:
- Class I occlusion: considered "ideal". The bottom incisors (front teeth) fit just behind the top incisors.
- Class II occlusion: "overbite." The bottom incisors are too far behind the top incisors. The mandible may appear small.
- Class III occlusion: "underbite." The bottom incisors are beyond the top incisors. The mandible protrudes.
Malocclusion means the teeth do not come together in a way that's considered ideal. The term "class I malocclusion" is sometimes used to describe crowded incisors when the jaws are aligning properly.
Over the course of the next several posts, I'll give an overview of the extensive literature showing that hunter-gatherers past and present have excellent occlusion, subsistence agriculturalists generally have good occlusion, and the adoption of modern foodways directly causes the crooked teeth, narrow arches and/or crowded third molars (wisdom teeth) that affect the majority of people in industrialized nations. I believe this process also affects the development of the rest of the skull, including the face and sinuses.
