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In PSL (and even more so in mewing communities) orthodontics are demonized to be something that ruins the face, but this is extremely wrong, I will go through the common treatments and if they’re harmful
Braces
Braces do nothing to damage the maxilla as all they do is remodel the teeth in the alveolar ridge which has no effect on the maxilla, braces also use extremely minute forces compared to the ones necessary, they are a looksmax as straight teeth > crooked teeth
(if the orthodontist was stuck in the 1980s, the maxilla’s transverse growth could be stunted from giving a giga narrow dental arch (horse palate), but pretty much all orthos nowadays give a medium to wide dental arch with braces
Extractions
Aesthetically speaking extractions do practically nothing, it has no effect on recessing the maxilla, some of the alveolar bone may resorb but that have once again no effect on extractions
The harm in extractions comes from the negative postural habits that they will bring with them, extractions are generally the first part of a type of treatment called camouflage orthodontics where the arch is later narrowed and brought back, the narrow dental arch can restrict proper tongue posture, and narrow the airway and encourage mouth breathing, but extractions on themselves are not harmful in themselves (Barrett has an EXTREMELY small tongue, so even despite 8 extractions he can still maintain proper oral posture from his subhumanely tiny tongue, while someone with a massive tongue would probably be forced to mouth breath
Elastics
In growing patients, elastics can hinder maxillary growth by 2mms at the max, while not good it also won’t have destroy a face either, the forces used simply arent strong enough to cause a drastic change, and they are tooth anchored so most of the chance elastics cause are just changes of the position of teeth, and a tiny bit of chsnge in the maxilla
in grown people elastics wont be strong enough to cause bone change and they are 100% fine as it will just shift the teeth (as long as you don’t adapt bad posture afterwards as they can occur
Headgear
this will cause drastic maxilla retraction and can utterly rape your face
Reverse pull headgear
What we know as facepulling, brings maxilla forward so looksmax
Elastics pulls mainly teeth and a little bone, headgear pulls mainly bone and a little teeth
Braces
Braces do nothing to damage the maxilla as all they do is remodel the teeth in the alveolar ridge which has no effect on the maxilla, braces also use extremely minute forces compared to the ones necessary, they are a looksmax as straight teeth > crooked teeth
(if the orthodontist was stuck in the 1980s, the maxilla’s transverse growth could be stunted from giving a giga narrow dental arch (horse palate), but pretty much all orthos nowadays give a medium to wide dental arch with braces
Extractions
Aesthetically speaking extractions do practically nothing, it has no effect on recessing the maxilla, some of the alveolar bone may resorb but that have once again no effect on extractions
The harm in extractions comes from the negative postural habits that they will bring with them, extractions are generally the first part of a type of treatment called camouflage orthodontics where the arch is later narrowed and brought back, the narrow dental arch can restrict proper tongue posture, and narrow the airway and encourage mouth breathing, but extractions on themselves are not harmful in themselves (Barrett has an EXTREMELY small tongue, so even despite 8 extractions he can still maintain proper oral posture from his subhumanely tiny tongue, while someone with a massive tongue would probably be forced to mouth breath
Elastics
In growing patients, elastics can hinder maxillary growth by 2mms at the max, while not good it also won’t have destroy a face either, the forces used simply arent strong enough to cause a drastic change, and they are tooth anchored so most of the chance elastics cause are just changes of the position of teeth, and a tiny bit of chsnge in the maxilla
in grown people elastics wont be strong enough to cause bone change and they are 100% fine as it will just shift the teeth (as long as you don’t adapt bad posture afterwards as they can occur
Headgear
this will cause drastic maxilla retraction and can utterly rape your face
Reverse pull headgear
What we know as facepulling, brings maxilla forward so looksmax
Elastics pulls mainly teeth and a little bone, headgear pulls mainly bone and a little teeth
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