Hi, I'm 37 years old. I still have my right baby cuspid and the adult tooth has come in above it. I noticed the baby tooth has a hole in the bottom of it and it's becoming discolored, which now I am thinking I have to have removed. What options are there to ensure my adult canine will move into place or are braces necessary?
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It's so sad that many practitioners still extract teeth nowadays. It's a method that simply looks at aligning teeth only, and not the facial appearance, or the health and function of the jaw. This is the result of what happens - the jaw and the face become retruded, not to mention possible TMJ...
It looks and sounds like your orthodontics were part of the problem not part of the solution. You have an underdeveloped maxilla (upper jaw) as well as mandible (lower jaw)Ideally you should have had expansion orthopedics / orthodontics instead of contraction orthodontics. You have a...