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Dr. Jeff Lee
4944 Windplay Drive
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
Everhart Ryan DDS
9912 Suncast Ln
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
Dr. Rakesh Mantena DDS
4355 Town Center Blvd
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
Jeffrey Kwong Orthodontics
1011 Saint Andrews Drive
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
Lyons Orthodontist: Lyons Timothy DDS
4420 Town Center Boulevard
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
Lyons Orthodontics
4420 Town Center Boulevard
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
El Dorado Oral & Mxllfcl Surgery: Straw Jason A DDS
4420 Town Center Boulevard
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
Lyons Orthodontist: Wittwer Ryan C DDS
4420 Town Center Boulevard
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
Rawlins Joseph T DDS
4420 Town Center Boulevard
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
Scott Dexter, DDS
889 Embarcadero Drive
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762
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, ... .
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. ... .
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 ... .
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. ... .
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. ... .