This girl was treated because she had a severely deep overbite. You can see on her initial photograph that her upper front teeth were completely covering her lower front teeth and the lower front teeth are impinging into the roof of the mouth. This results in excessive wear of the teeth and loss of gum tissue over time. She also had a very narrow smile; you don’t see any posterior teeth when she smiles.



At the end of treatment you see upper and lower teeth, a nice broad smile and the risk of wear and tear has been eliminated.

This patient wore braces due to an impacted permanent cuspid. This means the upper right cuspid tooth was caught on the roof of the mouth and was unable to erupt into place. The impacted tooth could not be left in the palate because it would eventually destroy the teeth around it.



The patient wore braces in order to increase the space available for this tooth; the tooth was surgically exposed and moved into place using regular orthodontic appliances.

This patient was under our care for several years for space maintenance. In order to treat her with non-extraction care in the future we needed to be aggressive; we held all space available in her arch while she was growing up.



We were able to expand her upper jaw, place the teeth in their most proper position and give her a beautiful smile. We were successful in treating her without the removal of any permanent teeth.