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Adams Vernon J Jr DMD
750 Welch Rd
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Ala Din, DDS
905 Middlefield Road
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Alex Yen DDS
409 Cambridge Ave
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Ann Ho, DDS
2345 Yale St
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Arakawa Douglas T DDS
689 Colorado Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Bartlett James O DDS
850 Middlefield Road
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Berezina Victoria DDS
900 Welch Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Blue Turtle Dental
2290 Birch St
Palo Alto, CA 94306
Brian C. Quo, DDS, MS
882 Emerson Street
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Christian K. Lee DDS, MS
734 Middlefield Road
Palo Alto, CA 94301
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 ... .
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. ... .
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, ... .
A treatment has to be conducted whenever a malocclusion is diagnosed. Otherwise, it may cause face deformation or have many undesirable health consequences. ... .