Background and details
Dr. Gema Olmos. Ortoperio Clinic
From 6 years It's best to do a dental examination and orthodontics to figure out if your teeth are erupting properly. At this age children should have already changed their front teeth (incisors) and it's at this time that the first final (6-year-old) tooth appears after the last milk teeth without any temporary teeth falling.
The aim of child orthodontics is to conduct treatments in growing children so that they can prevention challenges to the future, namely, It's about intersecting problems before they're more important.. We often discover that there are oral habits (from sucking his finger, sucking or biking, and from his tongue) that are leading to problems such as Open biting, cross-biting, disharmony between the size or place of the teeth (maxillary) and their face.
Treat growing children gives us the great advantage that we can move bones and stimulate their growth so that we achieve a normality and harmony in patients who have originally been without them. That opportunity to manage growth is unique, as at adult and even teenage stages it's no longer possible to achieve this improvement in the patient's skeletal relations and we have only an option to make dental compensation or surgeries to remedy problems.
The cross-biting They are often very easy to correct at an early age and thus avoid potential functional deviations from the mandible that change growth. The cross-biting from a single tooth can cause coatings, problems at an gum level, and damage to the rash of other pieces. Early intervention can normalise the bite and prevent it from becoming a more complicated problem that affects more teeth.
Example of a tooth's cross-bite.
The Open biting they alter chewing function (incisors have no contact and cannot be cut) and prevent a proper swallowing: to swallow a child you have to put his tongue between his teeth, leading them to separate even more and worse. It can affect how the maxillary bones grow and an initial dental problem becomes skeletal.
Example of an open bite: The upper and lower teeth do not contact.
The inverted bites They are often a result of a shortcoming of maxillary growth. Orthopedic treatments are available to stimulate earlier maxillary growth and their success rate is highest at an earlier age.
Example of inverted bite: upper teeth bite after lower ones "upside down."
Such treatments are often short and can be performed with single, fixed or removable equipment.
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