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Dr. Owen D. Wilson, DMD
1713 Elizabethtown Road
Leitchfield, KY 42754
Higdon Family Dentistry
711 Mill St
Leitchfield, KY 42754
Higdon Family Dentistry: Dowell Gayle
711 Mill Street
Leitchfield, KY 42754
Higdon Family Dentistry: Higdon Norris F DDS
711 Mill St
Leitchfield, KY 42754
Nichols Dental Center
2471 Elizabethtown Road
Leitchfield, KY 42754
Nichols Dental Center: Nichols Charlotte
2471 Elizabethtown Road
Leitchfield, KY 42754
Nichols Dental Center: Nichols Jay DDS
2471 Elizabethtown Road
Leitchfield, KY 42754
Nichols Dental Center: Nichols Melissa S DDS
2471 Elizabethtown Road
Leitchfield, KY 42754
Nichols Dental Center: Nichols Melissa S DDS
2471 Elizabethtown Road
Leitchfield, KY 42754
Twin Lakes Family Dental, PLLC. (Paul E. King, DMD)
1919 Elizabethtown Road
Leitchfield, KY 42754
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, ... .
Malocclusion means all dysfunctions of the tooth form and the incorrect relation between the teeth. There are genetic factors which condition the occurrence of malocclusion, nonetheless, it is most often an effect of bad habits in childhood. ... .
A treatment has to be conducted whenever a malocclusion is diagnosed. Otherwise, it may cause face deformation or have many undesirable health consequences. ... .
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. ... .
Every kind of malocclusion in a child can have very serious consequences. This is why we should begin the treatment right after we notice first symptoms of any type of bad bite. ... .