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Metro Dental Center
6620 Crain Highway
La Plata, MD 20646
Metro Dental Center: Hewitt Godfrey T DDS
6620 Crain Highway
La Plata, MD 20646
Metro Dental Center: John Orville W DDS
6620 Crain Highway
La Plata, MD 20646
Med-Surgery Walk In Clinic: Cornwall Demion R DDS
6620 Crain Highway
La Plata, MD 20646
Metro Dental Center: Belcher Althea DDS
6620 Crain Highway
La Plata, MD 20646
Long Branch Dental Group: Wilhite R M DDS
119 West Sanders Street
La Plata, MO 63549
Dr. Patrick S. Cieplak
6265 Crain Highway
La Plata, MD 20646
Wilhelm Dental Group: Wilhelm John C DDS
807 Charles Street
La Plata, MD 20646
Maryland Orthodontics
113 La Grange Avenue
La Plata, MD 20646
Maryland Orthodontics: Di Lorenzo Henry DDS
113 La Grange Avenue
La Plata, MD 20646
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. ... .
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. ... .
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. ... .
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 ... .