zaterdag 21 januari 2012

How To Be Sure You Have The Right Fit For Dental Braces

By Cindy Smith


Everybody wishes to have a good smile. But some individuals are born with a demand to fix or realign their teeth. Dental braces can make you smile again. A lot of children wear dental braces, although grownups can start wearing one, too, even later on in life. It is never too late start making corrections to your teeth.

But before acquiring dental braces, prudent and knowledgeable dentists will first advise wearing a splint. This is like a mouth guard. The function of the splint is to first make your jaw coordinated, and to first get the proper bite. After you wear a splint and you are able to open your mouth and put up to three or four fingers in minus any painful sensation, then you know you already have a good jaw alignment. If you bite and the lower jaw is already inside the upper jaw, then you know you have the right bite.

Usually, and not many individuals do know this, the lower jaw gets misaligned as a result of the pulling force when a tooth is extracted. It can also be due to drifts in the teeth position when a tooth that has been pulled has not been substituted, therefore producing spaces on the gums. First and foremost, it is not right for dentists to extract a tooth right away. For the thorough dentist, extraction is similar to abortion. They should do their best to save an agonizing tooth, through root canal and other means, and not to extract it out.

The splint lines up your jaw the right way. Aside from achieving the right bite, this results in a better facial form. With this in place, you are now ready to wear dental braces to fix the position of the teeth granting to the right alignment. More than beauty, this is, of course, a matter of being healthy.

The health profits derived from wearing a splint before dental braces includes being pain-free. The pain related with a condition called tempolo-mandibular jaw misalignment is so terrible because it involves the head, ear, and sometimes even the teeth. Wearing dental braces after the splint is a way to correct the physical appearance of the teeth and also of the jaw misalignment, thus precluding these conditions.




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