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Good Orthodontics
111 Washington Street
Washington, PA 15301
Integrated Dental Arts: Shafie Hamid R DDS
1426 21st Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20036
Blake Dental Group
5225 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest
Washington, DC 20015
Delany & Moiseiwitsch: Delany Gael M DDS
5225 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest
Washington, DC 20015
Greenwald Dana S DDS
5225 Wisconsin Avenue Northwest
Washington, DC 20015
Dennis Milliron & Associates
2440 Virginia Avenue Northwest
Washington, DC 20037
DC Light Dental
1331 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
Washington, DC 20004
Orthodontist John C. Shefferman - Traditional, Invisalign and Clarity Braces
1747 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
Washington, DC 20006
Embassy Row Orthodontics
2132 R Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20008
Dr. Jacqueline M. Miller, DDS
1015 Washington Square Center
Washington, MO 63090
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, ... .
Malocclusion means all kinds of possible deviations from ideal occlusion. It manifests itself with a misalignment of the teeth in the dental arch, delayed teething, having supernumerary or missing teeth as well as having teeth of abnormal size or shape. Malocclusion does not only affect your appearance, but also has an impact on the oral cavity functions. In effect, you might suffer from breathing, chewing, swallowing or even speech disorders. Overbite, underbite and crossbite are the most ... .
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. ... .
In contrary to the removable dental braces, the fixed ones are put on by an orthodontist for the whole period of the treatment. Nowadays, patients opt for them rather than for the removable braces because the treatment is noticeably shorter and more effective with the fixed braces. ... .
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. ... .