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Ripon Plaza Dental: Fardanesh Navid DDS
1308 W Main St
Ripon, CA 95366
Wendt Melissa
702 East Fond Du Lac Street
Ripon, WI 54971
Rauch Christopher DDS
929 South Grove Street
Ripon, WI 54971
Rauch Family Dentistry LLC
929 S Grove St
Ripon, WI 54971
Henderson Tana DDS
201 South Wilma Avenue
Ripon, CA 95366
Johnson Lawrence A DDS
926 South Grove Street
Ripon, WI 54971
Yeomans Edinger Chiropractic Center
404 Eureka Street
Ripon, WI 54971
Silver Creek Dentistry
1209 West Fond Du Lac Street
Ripon, WI 54971
Silver Creek Dentistry
1209 West Fond Du Lac Street
Ripon, WI 54971
Johnson Chris G DDS
418 John Street
Ripon, WI 54971
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. ... .
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. ... .
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 ... .