Is there any possible way of me closing my open bite without surgery? It makes me insecure. I had braces when I was 16 with a palette expander for one year. I'm 20 and want to fix my smile but without surgery. Would lumineers or veneers or bonding work?
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I have an orthodontic practice that sees about 25-30% adults. A large percentage of those patients are people who had braces already as children and thought that they no longer needed a retainer after several years. There was a large study done at the University of Washington that...
The overbite you are referring to is actually properly termed "overjet". The reason your upper teeth are moving outward is because that is where they are supposed to be. The mistake you made was having the four bicuspid teeth removed when you did braces the first time. This created an excess...
