Change Brought By Orthodontists in Dentistry

Change Brought By Orthodontists in Dentistry

Dental care is a significant part of your overall well-being.  The technological advancement of the dental industry, especially in the past few decades, has brought with it a plethora of choices in oral treatments. This has made it extra tricky to decide the most appropriate treatment for yourself.

To opt for a right treatment, it is important that you have sufficient knowledge to compartmentalize broad fields of dentistry. This includes orthodontics, which is the first acknowledged, specialized discipline within dentistry.  

Where your dentist treats oral health issues like tooth decay, gum diseases, cavities, and extraction, an orthodontist specializes in the orofacial deformities. This specialization requires him to complete a 4-year postgraduate dental program concerning with facial development and other multidisciplinary treatments.

Why Orthodontics? A Professional Perspective

In order to consider orthodontics as a distinction within dentistry, one requires analyzing the existing professional perspectives pertaining to this dental field. Why is there a need to visit an orthodontist instead of a dentist? Orthodontics, within the recent years, has emerged as a dynamic field to solve orofacial deformities, and to correct the dental malocclusion. That may include misaligned teeth, skeletal discrepancies, facial growth, and poor bites.  

These may seem like cosmo-dental problems that can also be treated by a dentist, but an orthodontist has the exclusive knowledge and a relatively an extensive educational specialization. Consequentially, your dentist may refer you to an orthodontist on the basis of his dental evaluation.

Dentistry, with the help of orthodontics, has been able to surface a number of modified treatments to diagnose, prevent and treat the problems of jaw and alignments.  In the countable sense of terms, it offers solutions to various dental problems, scaffolding a new direction to dentistry.

Given below are some of the cosmo-dental problems that are commonly treated by orthodontists, so that you can highlight how orthodontics has redefined dentofacial morphology

1.     Occlusion Problem

This refers to the misalignment of the jaw and teeth. This may cause discomfort in biting, chewing, eating and even result in speech impediments

 An orthodontist plans a significant role in modifying the adjustment of teeth by offering advanced orthognathic surgical therapies, tooth reshaping, and dental braces.

2.      Bruxism

Another oral problem that occurs when a person is asleep is Bruxism. Commonly known as tooth grinding, it causes significant damage to the protective enamel covering the teeth.

Orthodontic manipulation can be sought to prevent mouth pain, enamel damage, and general discomfort caused by grinding of teeth.

3.     Protruding Teeth

Norman Kingsley - an American orthodontic has had tremendous contributions regarding protruding teeth – a structural deformity that refers to misalignment of the upper and lower jaw.

He applied extraoral force on the protruding teeth to correct their alignment, and the treatment emerged as a precedent to help orthodontics treat even the most severe tooth prostrations and deformed jaw bones.

4.     Spacing Irregularities in Teeth

Spacing irregularities in your teeth affect your aesthetic profile, often resulting in low self-esteem and even severe anxiety. An orthodontist can apply a special form of cosmetic surgery to help in treating the spacing irregularities in your teeth.  

Orthodontic braces can help you realign your teeth in the desired position, which can be an impactful change for your personality.

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