Elastics and maxilla

[emcee]

- 15yrs old, had elastics for 1yr and 3 months to fix overbite. I heard it can recess your maxilla, can I ask my orthodontist to correct my overbite another way like moving my mandible forward.

 

[idk b2n]

elastics move your mandible forward gng

 

[Mainlander]

recessed me hard Im subhuman because of this

 

[ICL]

- 15yrs old, had elastics for 1yr and 3 months to fix overbite. I heard it can recess your maxilla, can I ask my orthodontist to correct my overbite another way like moving my mandible forward.

Who did you hear it from?

 

[emcee]

Who did you hear it from?

I heard it online and from proclaimed dentist and orthodontists

 

[emcee]

elastics move your mandible forward gng

Same with clas 2?

 

[ICL]

I heard it online and from proclaimed dentist and orthodontists

That's mumbai level fearmongering


Let YOUR orthodontist do the work