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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...
