Using Retainers After Your Braces
You have probably heard that teeth move. Although dental pieces are not the ones that shift, the ligaments that keep them in place do. When you have gaps in your mouth, teeth shift towards space, looking for contact. For example, when you lose a tooth, one of the main concerns is that teeth move towards the space where the lost tooth was. Also, the antagonist tooth (the dental piece in the opposite maxilla) extrudes. It is due to these reasons that extracting a tooth is the last option. Our dentist in Orlando will try to save them before pulling them out, and if there is no other option left, you must undergo prosthetic treatment to replace them. Teeth Move After Your Orthodontic Treatment If you underwent orthodontic treatment with a dentist in Kissimmee, you are probably wearing retainers. We offer retainers in Orlando to keep the beautiful smiles of our patients who finished their orthodontic treatment. Teeth have memory. If you have had dental misalignments for years and bite on a ...