If you think that your teeth are important to you only when you smile, then think again. Want to make someone age quickly? Have all their teeth extracted! The face will shrink and the person will look older right away. The presence of the teeth are absolutely essential for support of your face and lips. Unfortunately, very often your teeth will make you look older even if they are present in your mouth. Deep overbite, if it’s not corrected properly during orthodontic treatment, or wasn’t treated at all, will only deepen over the time.
In most cases it is associated with deep overjet, which makes the lower third of the face look even shorter. This combination is diminishing the bone support of the face, allowing soft tissues to collapse and wrinkles to develop. Any cosmetic surgery will help only temporarily, because without proper bone support soft tissues will collapse again. Over the years the situation is going to get worse. Lost teeth, broken cusps, periodontal disease, wearing of the teeth due to grinding will make your bite even deeper and face shorter. With recent advances in dental technologies, an opportunity exists now to rejuvenate your smile and look younger.
Orthodontic treatment is always an option to correct your bite problems. It is especially true when your rate of caries is very low and you don’t have big fillings, broken or missing teeth. If your mouth is not in great shape, if you are missing some teeth, have broken ones and big, old amalgam fillings in them, then another option is available for you. You can fix your teeth, replace missing teeth, get rid of old ugly metal fillings, rejuvenate your smile and look younger at the same time.
If you have headaches or some other TMJ symptoms, often associated with this condition, you can get rid of them at the same time, too. The goal of this treatment is to reposition a patient’s lower jaw, find correct relationships between the jaws and teeth, increase the length of the face and determine the healthy position of TMJ. It usually takes several weeks to reprogram muscles and find an ideal position from a functional and cosmetic standpoint. When a patient is comfortable and happy with the improvement of his (her) appearance, then permanent prosthetic changes can be done to make these esthetic results irreversible.
Any cosmetic technique, including resin/ceramic inlay/onlays, composite fillings, all-ceramic crowns and bridges, porcelain veneers and metal-free bridges, can be used to achieve desirable results. It is important to keep in mind, that every case should be approached on a strictly individual basis. If you are not happy with your appearance and condition of your mouth, if you want to have a dazzling smile and look 5-10 years younger at any age, then you should use rejuvenation to rediscover your Real Smile.
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