Crowding
TREATMENTS FOR
Crowding
- What is it?
- Treatment Options
Crowding of teeth happens when there is not enough space in your mouth to fit all your teeth.
Crowded teeth are unattractive in the smile, they are hard to clean, hard to eat and the teeth displaced can become very sensitive to cold without an adequate layer of gum covering.
Treatment aims is to create space in your jaws. In younger patients, we can often expand the jaw to accommodate all the erupting teeth.
Other methods that your orthodontist may discuss including polishing of the wider teeth, creating space by uprighting teeth, pushing teeth back using gum screws to alleviate crowding of the front teeth. In severe cases, removal of side teeth may be required to allow a proper, aesthetic alignment of the front teeth.
Orthodontic Treatments
BUCKY TEETH
This often arises due to the lower jaw and lower teeth being set back.
CROWDING
This happens when there is not enough space in your mouth to fit all your teeth.
DOUBLE ROW TEETH
Erupting adult teeth can miss their primary tooth counterpart.
ECTOPIC TEETH
This refers to teeth that’s developed and erupted in the incorrect position.
IMPACTED TEETH
Teeth form deep within the jaw and journey far to find their proper place.
MISSING TEETH
Missing teeth are common, often it is the lateral incisors, or lower second molars.
TEETH SPACING
Spaced teeth trap food, is unaesthetic in the smile and often unstable as other teeth will shift into the gaps.
THUMB SUCKING
Prolonged thumb sucking into late childhood leads to permanent bite problems.