Braces for Adults

Technological advances in the industry have provided excellent treatment options for adults. Health, happiness and self-esteem are vitally important to adults. No patient is "too old" to wear braces.

When left untreated, many orthodontic problems become worse. Treatment by a specialist to correct problems is often less costly than the additional dental care required to treat the more serious problems that can develop in later years.

The benefits of orthodontic treatment for adults includes the following:

• Improve the smile/self confidence
  
• Reduce appearance-consciousness
  
• Improve the ability to clean crooked and crowded teeth to prevent not only tooth decay, but gum disease and tooth loss
  
• Treatment can be very advantageous to reduce the potential for other orthodontic problems, such as abnormal wear of tooth surfaces, excessive stress on supporting bone and gum tissue, or misalignment of the jaw joints (which may result tin chronic headaches and/or pain in the face or neck).
  
• Problems such as crowding, crossbites, overbites, underbites or other alignment problems can all be eliminated
  
• Eliminate or reduce discomfort which may accompany "TMJ" problems (jaw joint)
  
• Correct harmful oral habits such as clenching'grinding and thumb or finger habits
  
• Improve speech
  
• Guide permanent teeth into more favorable positions
  
• Develop space for crowded, impacted or blocked-out permanent teeth
  
• Lower the risk of injury to protruding teeth
  
• Improve facial balance (the balance of the jaw)
  
• Improve lip closure