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Dr. Hal Rosenthaler, DMD
1718 Welsh Road
Philadelphia, PA 19115
Gentle Dental at Germantown
2627 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19133
Patelka Dental LLC: Patel Rasik DDS
8332 Bustleton Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19152
Personal Care Dentistry: Anthony J. Diorio, DDS
7046 Torresdale Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19135
Dr. Dorothy Rooney
3330 Grant Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19114
Sukoneck & Wilson
2401 Pennsylvania Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Sukoneck & Wilson: Sukoneck Barry DDS
2401 Pennsylvania Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Davis Steven M DDS
2981 Richmond Street
Philadelphia, PA 19134
Children's Hospital Philadelphia: Pathology
3400 South 34th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
PhillySmiles......................Dr. Joseph Roberts & Dr. Kathryn Ames,
1804 Rittenhouse Square
Philadelphia, PA 19103
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. ... .
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, ... .