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Children's Dental Associates: Douglas Muller DDS and John Wong DMD
2080 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT 06518
Children's Dental Associates of Hamden
2080 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT 06518
Joe Forrester, DMD - Forrester Dental, LLC
2319 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT 06518
Prezioso Dental Associates
3584 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT 06518
Hamden-Shoreline Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates
2560 Dixwell Avenue
Hamden, CT 06514
Serene Smiles of Hamden
2560 Dixwell Avenue
Hamden, CT 06518
Duplinsky Thomas G DDS
1220 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT 06517
Dr Dental - Hamden
2100 Dixwell Avenue
Hamden, CT 06514
Endodontics LLC: Cohen Henry DDS
60 Washington Avenue
Hamden, CT 06518
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, ... .
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 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. ... .
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 ... .