You can save money by only doing half a mouthful of orthodontics, so why doesn’t anyone do it?
“I only have a few crooked teeth. Why can’t I just correct half of my teeth?
It saves money and effort!”
Do you have the same doubts as this patient?
Listen to Xiaobian to give you the analysis, you will understand!
Headache cure head, foot cure foot, which few teeth are not straight, deal with them?
This may sound reasonable, but professional doctors would consider it a recipe for disaster.
Just as headaches can be caused by teeth, if you only look for problems in the head and ignore the teeth, you will not be able to cure the disease.
Every part of the human body is a sophisticated complex, and teeth are no exception.
Before orthodontic treatment, we must clearly know that the purpose of orthodontic treatment is not simply to align the teeth, it is related to the periodontal, joints, facial muscles, airway and so on.
The doctor will design the curvature of the smile line according to the facial characteristics of the patient, and improve the occlusal function of the teeth through correction, so as to achieve the balance, stability and beauty of the mouth and jaw system.
The goal remains the same whether we do a full mouth correction or a half mouth correction.
But it is difficult to achieve this goal with only half a mouthful of correction.
From the standpoint of a professional doctor, the practice of only doing half-mouth orthodontics is easy to make the occlusion of upper and lower teeth unable to be aligned, resulting in the failure of orthodontics.
For example, only do the upper jaw, not the lower jaw. After the upper jaw is aligned, the dental arch has formed a relatively stable oval shape, but the lower jaw is still crowded and irregular, completely irregular upper and lower occlusions, and the vertical and horizontal occlusions may not be good.
Over time, this can lead to occlusal interference, possibly causing pain in the jaw joint, and unstable alignment of the teeth.
Over time, the dentition will gradually recur and become irregular again.
Therefore, professional doctors generally do not recommend patients to do single jaw correction, unless it is really a very simple situation, fine adjustment of the occlusal can be done, otherwise the occlusal disorder, it is difficult to end, the future is bound to once again for the whole mouth correction, it is really not worth the loss.
If the patient is obstinative, insist on single-row orthodontics. For professional quality and professional standpoint, the doctor will explain a series of hazards that may be induced by half-mouth orthodontics in advance, and help the patient weigh the pros and cons to make a decision.
01, half mouth correction is likely to destroy the original locking relationship between upper and lower teeth.
In the long-term operation, the incongruous collision between teeth will result in tooth cracking, early contact, occlusal trauma, loss of masticatory function, temporomandibular joint disorder and other problems.
02. If these problems continue to develop, our occlusal balance disorders, the root cause of all diseases, will worsen.
It can cause periodontal disease, pain in the temporomandibular joint area, even unexplained headaches, and wedge-shaped defects in most of the back teeth.
03, the imbalance of occlusal balance may also cause facial soft tissue problems, such as muscle problems, facial stiffness, facial softness reduction and so on.
04, occlusal balance imbalance will lead to the arrangement of teeth is not stable enough, over time, tooth deformity will gradually relapse, become irregular again.
In order to achieve the true sense of “balance, stability, aesthetic”, it is very important to choose the correct correction means.
Therefore, half mouth correction is not respected by professional doctors in clinical practice.
