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CitiDent, Ben G. Amini DDS & Associates
120 Battery St
San Francisco, CA 94111
Chetna Chadha Baveja
369 Pine St
San Francisco, CA 94104
Daniel Anthony DDS
1344 Haight St
San Francisco, CA 94117
Washington Square Park Dental: Creighton Sara B DDS
1719 Powell St
San Francisco, CA 94133
Washington Square Park Dental
1719 Powell St
San Francisco, CA 94133
Peoples Thomas Brenda DDS
2299 Post St
San Francisco, CA 94115
Rebecca Boardman, DDS
2825 California St
San Francisco, CA 94115
Richard Choi, DMD
724 Filbert St
San Francisco, CA 94133
Dental Health of San Francisco
2407 Noriega St
San Francisco, CA 94122
Dr. Robert J. Mostovoy, DDS
3641 Sacramento St
San Francisco, CA 94118
Braces are not for everyone. Are there any alternatives to braces? There is a lot of people who don't want to get braces due to emotional, aesthetical or professional reasons. There are also people, who can't get braces because of health problems - e.g. diseases of the immune system exclude the possibility of getting dental braces. ... .
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 ... .
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. ... .
Beautiful, white and ideally aligned teeth are the beauty ideal. In order to enjoy it, it is not enough to just pay attention to the oral hygiene. It is necessary to prevent and treat malocclusions. ... .
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, ... .