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Many dentists will often give you braces that negatively align your facial bones so your teeth are aligned. This is not worth it at all and if you have something like an overbite, the dentist will sometimes pull your midface BACK in a way that makes it appear recessed just so the teeth are aligned (as oppose to pulling it forward so the teeth are aligned which is how your teeth should naturally be aligned based on your jaw.)
This is the difference between braces that influence your skeletal positioning instead of just the teeth which can fix recession in the actual face and not just the teeth. Unfortunately if you're past a certain age (early 20's or later) your cranial sutures may very well be already closed, meaning these types of braces wouldn't work for you and couldn't actually influence skeletal alignment. If you're younger than this and your cranial sutures are still open, this is what you should tell your orthodontists as to not let them narrow your palate or pull your jaw back and to instead let it guide your jaw and midface to experience the proper growth and width that it should have:
- Damon braces or light-force self-ligating braces. These expand forward growth rather than retracting
- Appliances like Twin Block, Herbst, Bionator
- ALF, DNA, or myobrace systems
- Expansion focused treatment instead of tooth removal
If you're still afraid of having a retardcel orthodontist that won't understand what you're saying, tell them "I'm __ age and my cranial sutures are still open. I want my treatment to SUPPORT forward growth, not to pull teeth backwards. I'd like to use non-extension, expansion, or functional methods to guide growth and keep my facial structure fully balanced."
Good luck fixing recession with this forward-growthlets I believe in you
This is the difference between braces that influence your skeletal positioning instead of just the teeth which can fix recession in the actual face and not just the teeth. Unfortunately if you're past a certain age (early 20's or later) your cranial sutures may very well be already closed, meaning these types of braces wouldn't work for you and couldn't actually influence skeletal alignment. If you're younger than this and your cranial sutures are still open, this is what you should tell your orthodontists as to not let them narrow your palate or pull your jaw back and to instead let it guide your jaw and midface to experience the proper growth and width that it should have:
- Damon braces or light-force self-ligating braces. These expand forward growth rather than retracting
- Appliances like Twin Block, Herbst, Bionator
- ALF, DNA, or myobrace systems
- Expansion focused treatment instead of tooth removal
If you're still afraid of having a retardcel orthodontist that won't understand what you're saying, tell them "I'm __ age and my cranial sutures are still open. I want my treatment to SUPPORT forward growth, not to pull teeth backwards. I'd like to use non-extension, expansion, or functional methods to guide growth and keep my facial structure fully balanced."
Good luck fixing recession with this forward-growthlets I believe in you
