My dental problem
Upper teeth protruding far ahed of the lower teeth.
Why to use braces?
A brace is fact of life. They are used for many conditions
to straighten the crooked teeth, over bites, under bites, incorrect jaw
positions or joint disorder.
It used by both kids and adults too!
Crooked teeth are having many problems during chewing,
talking, or smiling. Because of unnatural spaces, they are difficult to clean
more like to prone the cavities that lead to pain and discomfort. If such
problems untreated these problems can results in to tooth decay, gum diseases,
headaches, earaches as well as speaking biting or chewing problems. Such
condition commonly referred as Malocclusion means “Bad bite” Examples of bad
bites are Crowed teeth, extra teeth, missing teeth or jaws that are out of
alignment.
Reason for malocclusion:
Accidental
Early or late loss of baby teeth
Sucking of thumb or fingers for prolonged time.
When these conditions are left unchecked leads to permanent
deformity around bone structure of the mouth causes pain and discomfort Here I
am going to present the how braces can benefit to cure the malocclusion
condition on myself.
Orthodontic:
It is the branch of science that deals with the using
devices to move the teeths or align the jaws. Its simply discipline of the
dentistry engaged in improving the ones smile and oral health.
Right time for braces:
Moment of teeth area taken place at any age but the best to
start it early.
Younger you are get better results and less time also.
Because in children
both the bone around the teeth and jaw bones can be molded by braces as the child grows. But if you got braces as an
adult the device can no longer mold the jaw bones.For that you have to go for
surgery.
Ideal age is 3-12 to start the orthodontic treatment. in
childhood orthodontic function 2 folds to create straight well aligned teeth
and to improve the facial profile.
In adults orthodontics can correct the only former, with the
latter case facial profile remaining
stable throughout adolescence and adulthood.
Additional for adult braces made more difficult by the fact
that they have to wear the retainer at night and rest of life or risk to having
undergo treatment again. Retainers awill help maintain the results of
treatment.
Types of braces:
According to the problems braces are selected for treatment
as
1.Metal Braces
2.Ceramic Braces
How long treatment take place:
Depend upon the plan of treatment and the complication in
teeth and the age of the subject.
If you are older then it will take long time for
treatment.
Generally average patient can count the wearing full
braces between 18 and 30 months (1.5 years to 2.5 years) After the treatment
there at least few months you may have to wear the retainers to set and align
the tissues surrounding of the straightened teeth.
About treatment:
At start of the treatment it will create discomfort. Once
in the month you need to visit the orthodontist he will tighten the
interconnecting wires. This causes pressure on the bracets or band in order to
shift teeth or jaws gradually into the desired position.
Teeths and jaws feel sour after each visit. And
discomfort is only brief and will disapper after a wihile.
Life style change:
During treatment you have to change the some habits and
avoid certain type of foods.
Sweets and starchy foods generate the lot of acids in
mouth and forms plaque on teeth these plaque formation and the high acidity
leads to the tooth decay and promote the gum diseases.
Eat the healthy food cut the foods like raw carrots ,corn
on the cob, pretzels, apple in to smaller pieces before eating.
Avoids sticky, chewy sweets like caramel , taffy and gum such
type of food stick to your braces and causes wire damage and loosening of the
brackets
Avoid hard and crunchy snacks like popcorn nuts and hard
candy.
Such food causes potential to break braces and cause to
swallow some portion of your braces.
This results in the extend in the treatments for more
time than predetermined.
Don’t:
Ice cube chewing
Thumb sucking
lip biting
Pushing tongue against your teeth
Excessive mouth breathing
Ceramic
material of braces:
What is Ceramic?
The
word “Ceramic” is derived from the Greek word “keramos” that translates
to mean, “burnt earth.” It came from
the ancient art of fabricating pottery where mostly clay was fired to form a hard,
brittle object. A more modern definition is a material that contains metallic
and non-metallic elements (usually oxygen). These materials can be defined by
their inherent properties; they form hard, stiff, and brittle materials due to
the nature of their inter-atomic bonding, which is ionic and covalent. Contrast
that to a metal; metals are non-brittle (display elastic behaviour), and
ductile (display plastic behaviour). This is because of the nature of the
inter-atomic bonding, which is called a metallic bond. These bonds are defined
by a cloud of shared electrons that can easily move when energy is applied. This
is what makes most metals great conductors. Ceramics can be very translucent to
very opaque. In general, the more glassy the microstructure (i.e., noncrystalline)
the more translucent it will appear, and the more crystalline, the more opaque.
Many other factors contribute to translucency, e.g., particle size, particle
density, refractive index, and porosity, to name a few. Dental ceramic
materials can exist in a glass form (an amorphous solid), which has no
crystalline phase; a glass with varying amounts and types of crystalline phase;
a mostly crystalline material with small amounts of glass; all the way to a
polycrystalline solid (a glass free material). How ceramics are classified can
be very confusing. Ceramics can be classified by their microstructure, (i.e.
amount and type of crystalline phase and glass composition). They can also be
classified by processing technique (power-liquid, pressed, or machined).They
can also be classified by their clinical application. We will give a classification
based on the microstructure of ceramics, with the inclusion of how the ceramics
are processed and that processing’s effect on durability, more importantly, Classification
based on clinical indications for the various materials.
Microstructural
Classification:
At a
microstructural level, we can define ceramics by the nature of their
composition of glass-to-crystalline ratio. There can be infinite variability of
the microstructures of materials, but they can be broken down into four basic compositional categories, with a few
subgroups:
§ Category
1 :Glass based systems (mainly silica)
§ Category
2 :Glass based systems (mainly silica) with fillers, usually crystalline
(typically leucite or, more recently, lithium disilicate)
§ Category
3: Crystalline-based systems with glass fillers (mainly alumina)
§ Category
4: Polycrystalline solids (alumina and zirconia)
I choosed Ceramic Braces...........
Braces After 10 months
