The treatment gave me a sunken face. I completed my traditional braces treatment (metal wires with rubber bands) around May 2020. After my treatment, I slowly noticed that my face was now sunken in, and made my facial asymmetry much more noticeable and worse. Is there a way to reverse the retraction treatment? I had no teeth extracted during the process. My orthodontist would only inspect my teeth when I was laying down, and only checked to see if my teeth were straightening which is why my face changed drastically with treatment.
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Answer: Sunken Face From Braces/ Orthodontic Treatment
From the photos, it appears that You have two separate but inter-related problems. 1) teeth that are not aligned (not "straight"). 2) A bad bite where your upper teeth are to far in front of your lowers and most of your teeth don't touch (an open bite). this is a very difficult combination to...
It is unfortunate that you had four teeth amputated and no have these issues that could have been avoided by early expansion.
Consider the use of the DNA Appliance it uses very light forces and there is virtually no inflamation which causes pain and resorbtion and/or bone loss.
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Orthodontic treatment will definetely close the gaps and correct the bite.Post orthodontics the crown will be in better shape and the bite will be uniform.
