Q.
as a traditional brace goes round the outside of the teeth it is quite easy to see how it could straighten teeth, as it can just pull them apart. I don’t understand how linguals can pull the teeth apart and for this reason would they be suitable for crowded teeth? my teeth are fairly overlapped on the bottom and mildly overlapped on the top and at twenty one i think my mouth/face would have stopped growing? I dont want traditional braces but was caught up on how linguals would pull teeth from the inside? feedback would assure me as to going for/getting treatment. thanks
as a traditional brace goes round the outside of the teeth it is quite easy to see how it could straighten teeth, as it can just pull them apart. I don’t understand how linguals can pull the teeth apart and for this reason would they be suitable for crowded teeth? my teeth are fairly overlapped on the bottom and mildly overlapped on the top and at twenty one i think my mouth/face would have stopped growing? I dont want traditional braces but was caught up on how linguals would pull teeth from the inside? feedback would assure me as to going for/getting treatment. thanks
A.
Thanks for the questions many people ask!
Thanks for the questions many people ask!
It is easy to see how outside braces align teeth, by pulling them out! However the force that moves them out is in the WIRES, so it is them which have the “SHAPE MEMORY” to pull teeth into the desired position. So in essence, the wire is put in all twisted and the wire then wants to recover back to its original shape and so takes the tooth along with it…..ala straight teeth! This is exactly the same in lingual as they push teeth out via the WIRES! So with out the wires there would be no straight teeth!
Hope this helps….Don’t tell anyone the secret!
Good luck with finding brace treatment!
