What are cost effective methods to fix crooked teeth in a 32 year old? (photo)

What’s essential to note is: 1) Most types of malocclusions/crowded teeth ARE NOT caused by myofunctional habits. a. Malocclusions are most commonly caused due to an underlying skeletal discrepancy in your upper and lower jaws, or simply a lack of space to accommodate all you teeth. A piece of plastic to train your tongue is not going to change or correct any of that. 2) Myofunctional training MAY be for KIDs a. Habits like thumbsucking, mouthbreathing and thrusting their tongue forward can cause the front teeth not to meet.

Yes, crooked teeth can be indeed be ‘straightened’ with porcelain veneers or crowns. However, there might be a risk of nerve injury. Let's examine the details. When you say crooked teeth, this means that your teeth are not aligned and we'd need to bring them into a well aligner arch. Teeth that are protruding will have to be trimmed sufficiently to make them go in line into the arch. Our teeth have a range of 1. 5 - 3. 5 mm of enamel and dentine thickness. Imagine you have to bring the tooth in line by 2.