Is it too late to orthodontic at 35?
Yesterday’s “Eat This Way during Orthodontics!
After Posting it, a friend left a message asking, “Can I get orthodontics at 35?”
After receiving a positive response from Xiaobian, the friend added again, as if in disbelief: “At this age, really?”
Age, indeed, is a non-negligible existence, especially in the physiological problems.
But for adult correction, Xiaobian solemnly explain to you: dental correction, adulthood is too late.
Lifelong movable bone — the principle of alveolar bone orthodontics, Xiaobian as early as in “Orthodontics can lead to premature loss?
It has been elaborated in one article and will not be repeated here.
The main puzzle friends have about orthodontics in adulthood is that “adulthood” means the bone is formed, as if the die is cast and cannot be changed.
But the bone that orthodontics rely on — the “alveolar bone” (the bone that wraps the tooth) — is a special bone in the body.
And what makes it special is that if you give it a force, it moves.
This property, throughout the human life, that is to say, the alveolar bone in all stages of the human body, have the ability to move.
And that, essentially, makes orthodontics possible in adulthood.
Non-negligible Factors – Periodontitis It is important to note that alveolar bone may be destroyed.
This has to mention “periodontitis”.
Periodontitis, simply put, is periodontal tissue inflammation.
Periodontal tissue, as the name implies, is the tissue surrounding the teeth, including the gums, periodontal membrane, alveolar bone and cementum.
Generally speaking, the formation process of periodontitis is as follows.
First, food debris, bacteria under the action of saliva, on the tooth surface to form a “soft scale” – dental plaque;
Dental plaque deposition, formation of dental calculus;
When both are deposited above the gingiva in a certain amount, the gingiva becomes inflamed;
Gradually spread to the periodontal tissue, thus forming periodontitis.
Friends may also feel that in the formation of periodontitis, there is a key factor – time, that is, from the initial dental plaque gradually develop to periodontitis, it takes time to accumulate.
As a result, adults generally have worse periodontal conditions than adolescents and are more likely to suffer from periodontitis.
Periodontitis will destroy the alveolar bone and affect the orthodontic treatment. Therefore, when the adult orthodontic, the doctor will first check the periodontal, if there is periodontitis, periodontal treatment must be performed before orthodontic treatment.
Back to our friend’s question at the beginning of the article, “At 35, is it too late to get orthodontic?”
The answer is: as long as the periodontal health, age is not an issue.
Our orthodontic department of a doctor said, in his career, received a patient: 60 years old.
