What treatments do you need to do during orthodontics?

What treatments do you need to do during orthodontics? Orthodontics is a method to treat tooth deformity and hypoplasia. Tooth irregularity and deformity do great harm to oral health and cause other diseases, so it is necessary to correct teeth.

What treatments do you need to do during orthodontics?

(1) Bite marks: that is, take a solid model for doctors to use when diagnosing whether the design is right or wrong and compare it with the whole treatment process.

(2) Photographing: Before the treatment, the doctor should basically take photos of the patient's face and occlusion, and leave them for later comparison with the treatment.

(3)X-ray examination: basically, each patient has taken a lateral radiograph of the head and an inclined radiograph of the complete denture.

(4) Formulation of treatment plan: Doctors accurately measure and calculate the types of malocclusion according to solid models, photos and X-rays, and formulate specific treatment plans. Subsequently, the doctor expressed the treatment plan to the patients and their families, and solicited suggestions from the patients and their families. After the treatment plan is clear, the patient or the patient's family will sign the consent form.

(5) The whole process of actual treatment.

(6) After treatment, remove the dental appliance and put on the retainer.

Does orthodontics have any side effects?

Harm to the dental nerve: In the early stage of treatment, there is slight and transient inflammation of the dental nerve, mainly manifested as pain or discomfort in the first few days after exertion, but the test confirmed that this harm has no clinical manifestations.

Harm to teeth: During orthodontics, the surface layer of gums will also undergo reconstruction activities such as digestion, absorption and growth. After treatment, the gums recover with their own repair ability, but if the intensity is too high during treatment, it will increase the risk factors of root resorption.

Harm to alveolar bone height: People who have undergone orthodontic correction will have a slight decrease in alveolar bone height. This is also because it is difficult to maintain oral health by wearing dental appliances, which increases the chance of suffering from gingival inflammation and does some harm to alveolar bone. After treatment, alveolar bone is not easy to be digested and absorbed again, oral health will be well maintained, and alveolar bone will gradually recover.

Tooth looseness: Under normal circumstances, each tooth has a certain degree of physiological activity to cushion the occlusal work pressure and avoid tooth trauma. When doing orthodontic treatment, tooth looseness has been improved, which is also a normal reflection of everything. To move teeth, alveolar bone and periodontal ligament must be reconstructed. Because teeth are fixed in alveolar bone by periodontal ligament, teeth will become loose. However, after the teeth are corrected to all normal parts and stop moving, the periodontal ligament can adhere again according to its own repair ability and become firm, which is not easy to cause permanent damage. Clinically, it is found that the teeth are loose, so we should stop exerting force and let them repair for a period of time before exerting force.