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Cumberland Dental: Dunn Clark DDS
4500 Montevallo Rd
Irondale, AL 35210
Cumberland Dental: Justus Robert DDS
4500 Montevallo Rd
Irondale, AL 35210
Cumberland Dental: Hopkins Kristina DDS
4500 Montevallo Road
Irondale, AL 35210
Dr. Evelyn R. Frazier Coln, DMD
4500 Montevallo Road
Irondale, AL 35210
Cumberland Dental: Firth Michael DDS
4500 Montevallo Rd
Irondale, AL 35210
Vital Smiles Administrative Office
1900 Crestwood Boulevard
Irondale, AL 35210
Bailey Warren K DDS
4500 Montevallo Road
Irondale, AL 35210
Cumberland Dental: Dunn Matthew DDS
4500 Montevallo Road
Irondale, AL 35210
Dr. Crawford G. Badham, DMD
4500 Montevallo Road
Irondale, AL 35210
Alicea Luis F DDS
4500 Montevallo Road
Irondale, AL 35210
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 ... .
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. ... .
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. ... .