How to achieve wide full smile with braces ? (photos)

You are a perfect example of contraction orthodontics.  Your upper jaw was underdeveloped and all the teeth dis not fit so they took out four teeth to fit them into your existing bone.The alternative is expansion Orthopedics/Orthodontics where you grow the maxilla larger creating a full wide healthy looking smile.Contaction Orthodontics can increase TMJ disorders, Chronic daily headaches, tension headaches, migraines, snoring and sleep apnea.  It is often called "Four on the Floor" Orthodontics or "Suck Back" Orthodontics.Expansion Orthodontics can be done with multiple types of appliances in children but in adults the DNA Appliance is most successful.  It is being used to cure sleep apnea and snoring by growing larger airways.You could expand your jaws now but would end up with spaces needing bridges or implants.Ira L Shapira DDSChair, Alliance of TMD OrganizationsDiplomate, American Board of Dental Sleep MedicineDiplomat, American Academy of Pain ManagementFellow and Regent, International College of CranioMandibular Orthopedics

Because of the extractions made in your treatment, one the undesirable effects is precisely those dark corners. Sometimes that this effect doesn't appear hut in your case it does and there's nothing the ortho Can do to resolve it