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Concerned Dental Care of Hauppauge
335 Terry Road
Smithtown, NY 11787
Joseph DiBernardo
285 East Main Street
Smithtown, NY 11787
Kuo Philip DDS
285 East Main Street
Smithtown, NY 11787
North Country Smiles
265 North Country Road
Smithtown, NY 11787
Smithtown Dental Office PC
684 Smithtown Bypass
Smithtown, NY 11787
Now Dental of Suffolk
496 Smithtown Bypass
Smithtown, NY 11787
Fran Eichler DDS
1 Annette Avenue
Smithtown, NY 11787
Dr. Julie A. Mathew, DDS
222 East Main Street
Smithtown, NY 11787
Long Island Center for Healthier Dentistry
260 East Main Street
Smithtown, NY 11787
Dr. Jeffrey Etess
260 East Main Street
Smithtown, NY 11787
Braces can make your life difficult in many various ways. Before the treatment, the patients usually have concerns about their future life with a foreign object in their mouth. The braces, however, do not prevent you from having a normal life. Nonetheless, during the treatment, you should follow all medical advices of your doctor, especially those concerning oral hygiene. ... .
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. ... .
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 ... .
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, ... .
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. ... .