- What's up guys?
This is Dr. O from Innovative Dental.
Today we're gonna answer and awesome question,
get it all the time.
What age should your kids get braces
and why is it important to help them
avoid unnecessary extractions?
So let's dive into this topic.
It's pretty important,
but before we do that give a thumbs up.
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and tell me what age you started to have braces.
That might be a good comment to make below
and say hey, I started braces when I was da-da-da-da.
Maybe you didn't get 'em until you were an adult.
Some people don't.
We help a lot of adults with that at our practice.
Sometimes we do Invisalign, sometimes we do braces.
But anyways, let's dive into this question.
If you have a kid, are gonna have kids,
or maybe you're a kid yourself,
you're going hey, I wanna know, when should I get braces?
I'm gonna answer that right now.
So one of the issues we see is
sometimes people get braces when they're 13 or 14,
and they had severe crowding, and because of that
they were recommended that they
have their premolars removed or taken out.
So they have four teeth taken out throughout,
one in each quadrant leaving some gaps there,
and then those gaps are filled in by the braces pulling all
the teeth together and kind of filling that in,
and that's how we address some severe crowding,
and then voila, we have straight teeth.
Now what the problem is, is if that was done
at a younger age and the jaw's still growing.
The jaw continues to grow in a female until 19, 20ish,
and then in a male maybe a little bit longer,
maybe a year or two longer, and that growth causes the bite
and the smile to kind of sink in.
So if you've ever seen somebody and you're just like,
man, why are their teeth so small and sunken in?
A lot of times I can almost catch it
with just looking at their smile,
is that they've had their premolars extracted
and their teeth were moved with braces at a young age,
rather than the option that I'm gonna talk about
that will help save you from these extractions
and get a much fuller, beautiful, healthy, natural smile.
So that's kind of the goal of this discussion,
is to help people get the best for your kids,
and maybe avoid some of the issues that I've seen
with some of the adults who've had teeth taken out too soon.
Another thing that'll help is
we're gonna save you a ton of money,
or at least be able to space it out.
If you have multiple kids you're gonna love this approach
to staging the treatment to
help it make it more affordable.
Which who doesn't love that?
Alright, so, and by the way, my kids are actually
in this treatment right now, so I can back it up
with the fact that I believe in it, it's very helpful,
my kids are actually benefiting from it as we speak,
and I'll show you their photo here.
But so first you wanna address it at a young age,
so maybe around age six to 10 years old
is a good time to see, I mean as early as six,
to see a child has some severe crowding.
The reason is, we can start to set the stage,
or the foundation, for their future permanent teeth
by doing what's called stage one ortho.
It's where we're gonna move and adjust
the ridge, or the jawbone to be large enough
to handle their permanent teeth.
So we're gonna reduce the crowding,
we're gonna create some space,
and when we do so, when those permanent teeth come in
they're gonna have room for us to do stage two
and move the teeth into the right position.
So stage one is foundational, and stage two would be
actual what you might consider full braces
on permanent teeth to move the teeth in the right position.
So obviously the benefit is, stage two goes really quickly
because we have all the right bone in the right spot,
and it looks really good and the smile's gonna be full,
and since we didn't extract teeth,
as the jawbone continues to grow,
we have enough teeth to fill it out
and give your child an amazingly
beautiful, full, healthy smile.
Now another great benefit to this
is that we can save you money,
or at least help you spread that
over time and make this affordable.
Let's say you have three kids, they all need braces.
Holy smokes.
What if they're within a few years of each other?
You might have, I don't know, it depends on where you live,
but you might have 15 to $20,000
sunk in braces for those three kids.
What if you could space that out
over the course of four, five, six years?
And that's really what we're talking about here
with this stage one, stage two.
I know in our practice we charge
1/3 the cost of full braces for stage one,
and then 2/3 for stage two.
So essentially you pay the same,
but you spaced it out over four to six years.
I don't know about you, but I'm a parent,
and that's gonna be helpful to help
budget and save and plan over time.
So not only are we creating a more beautiful,
natural, healthy smile, we're doing it with
a better budget approach, and that's great
for everybody, right?
So I really hope this video is helpful.
I hope if you're a parent that has kids
that you're considering when they have braces
that you're like, dude thanks a lot,
this works out, and I hope it helps you.
If you live in Springfield area, we would love to give you a
complimentary consultation in our practice.
Dr. Megan is incredibly gifted and skilled
at providing braces for our patients.
She's a general dentist with lots of training
and experience giving amazing smiles without
the unnecessary extraction approach
to handling crowded teeth, so I think you'll love all that.
We do the complimentary.
We'd love to see you in our office.
Otherwise, if this video is helpful
give it a thumbs up again.
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and you know, you guys have an awesome evening,
and I'll see you tomorrow on The Dental Drive.
You keep smiling.
It looks great on ya.