Question
Crooked teeth tend to be more challenging to look after as
cleaning them is difficult. With excellent cleaning by yourself and regular professional maintenance by your dentist you can manage long-term issues. If not cleaned immaculately, there is a danger of decayed teeth especially between the teeth, chronic gum disease, increased speed of gum recession and possibly loss of teeth.
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.
Uprighting your upper 2nd premolars can be achieved with Invisalign or fixed (traditional) braces. If your tooth is very short on the palatal (side facing inward), then it may be more efficient to upright the tooth using fixed braces since the Invisalign aligner will have a smaller surface area to grip on to with a short tooth. Anterior crossbites (that occur in the front teeth) can be solved with Invisalign or fixed braces. The bigger question is the reason for the crossbite being present in the first place. I have covered this here.
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