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You can have braces if you have dental crowns on your back teeth. The brackets will bond to the crowns instead of your enamel. This is very common in orthodontics.
You can get braces with crowned teeth. You need to take care of them like avoiding certain foods to reduce risk of damage to braces. Best of luck
Yes, most certainly!Your orthodontist will just use brackets to hold the orthodontic wire that is glued onto the crown, rather than single brackets that can be glued onto the enamel. However, sometimes a crown will loosen up, especially if there isn't enough good tooth structure under it. If that happens, the orthodontist will just need to recement the crown.
In all probability, your first treatment failed not because of lack of retainer wear but because you really don't have enough room for all your teeth! Excessive expansion to get all the teeth aligned will result in a very unstable result that will collapse at the first opportunity.If you...
Palatal expanders work on kids because the upper jaw is really two bones that are connected by a suture down the middle. Putting a force on the opposite sides separates the bones and new bone fills in. At a certain age (sometime in the teens) the bones become permanently fused...the...
Yes, if you wear it like a clear aligner (24/7 except when eating) you have a good chance of the tooth moving back to its original position. After the movement occurs you will have to either continue wearing the retainer every night or have your dentist fix the wire retainer so it is bonded back...
Not knowing your case and possible reason for braces (crowding, spacing, etc...) I believe you should be ok for another 3 days. If you believe any shifting has occurred let your orthodontist know of the "problem area" and he/she could possible make some adjustment to the retainer to address your...
You absolutely do NOT want to extract teeth. Extracting teeth will create far more space than you need to align your teeth and will dramatically affect facial appearance and constrict your smile. You may not want to solve your crowding with IPR either as you will probably require a significant...
Your problem is not an overly protrusive upper lip but rather a retruded lower jaw caused by upper front teeth that are tilted too far back. You do not need teeth extracted but you do need to have your upper front teeth torqued into proper position and then have your lower jaw brought forward....
