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Dr. Ken W. Waddell, DMD
15495 Southwest Sequoia Parkway
Portland, OR 97224
Smiles On Sandy
6600 NE Sandy Blvd
Portland, OR 97213
Wolfsehr B Mitchell DDS
1433 Northeast 69th Avenue
Portland, OR 97213
Oregon Academy-Gen Dentistry
1730 Southwest Harbor Way
Portland, OR 97201
Pohl Katie
9751 East Grand River Avenue
Portland, MI 48875
Mauren Mike DDS
9751 East Grand River Avenue
Portland, MI 48875
Maine Prosthodontics
1250 Forest Avenue
Portland, ME 04103
Musciano Frank DDS
1250 Forest Avenue
Portland, ME 04103
Christina A Gitto DDS
1250 Forest Avenue
Portland, ME 04103
Dr. Rudolph Johnson, DMD
276 Canco Road
Portland, ME 04103
Can everyone wear braces? Unfortunately, some patients cannot. Why? Everyone would like to have white, healthy and straight teeth. Majority of us, when able to afford it, can straighten their teeth and eventually overcome complexes, which might have been disturbing us since our childhood. Straight teeth are important not only from the aesthetical point of view: malocclusions may cause a lot of diseases such as mobility or drifting of teeth, periodontal diseases or temporomandibular joint diseases. Moreover, ... .
In order to maintain the effects of the orthodontic treatment, we have to undergo the retention phase, which will prevent possible return of malocclusion. What is the retention phase and how long does it take? During the orthodontic treatment our teeth change their position. The braces force the teeth to move from places where they have stayed during our whole life. Unfortunately, usually the braces are not enough to hold the teeth in the desired position for ... .
Removable braces are usually used to treat not serious malocclusions in children who still have milk teeth. They also prevent the patients from worsening of the developing or already existing malocclusions. The greatest advantage of the removable braces is their low price. In comparison to fixed braces, the price of removable braces is really insignificant. ... .
A treatment has to be conducted whenever a malocclusion is diagnosed. Otherwise, it may cause face deformation or have many undesirable health consequences. ... .
Beautiful smile, as well as healthy and straight teeth, are very often an effect of a long-term and expensive treatment. Modern orthodontics offers a great variety of different malocclusion treatments. Unfortunately, we have to pay for some of them. ... .