Orthodontics Questions

My daughter needs braces. Our insurance does not cover this service. I read today that there is a program that costs about $20 a month and covers up to 50% of the cost of orthodontics. There are several participating orthos in my area. Has anyone else used this ? I am always leary of stuff [...]

I had braces and retainer for 8 years from age 14 to 22. I wore headgear and later rubber bands. I think they made my upper jaw too small. It is at my far range of motion to close my teeth together and my jaw pops when I open it far. The only time I [...]

I want to get my 9 year old invisalign braces, are they expensive? I have blue cross/blue shield and state aid. I am a single parent and willing to work as hard as I have to to get her teeth straight and the gp in the front closed (she has her adult teeth and the [...]

Okay so I have Invisalign and for those who don’t know, my orthodontists switches out the aligners every month. This month I wasn’t too good on wearing them, as I had accidently left them at my boyfriends house and couldn’t get them back for a while, so I wore the aligners for about 2 weeks [...]

I’m 15 and have lost all of my baby teeth, most of my teeth are straight but i have two that are twisted 90 degrees- so you can only see the side of them. I know i will have to be assesed by an orthodontist to see if it will work for me, but has [...]

I am 21, female and just had my first orthodontist appointment today. He told me invisalign will not do much in my case, so I will be getting ceramic braces. How noticeable are they? Do they hurt? and what goes into the whole process. No one in my family has braces, so I have no [...]

I went to the orthodontist to talk about straightening my teeth. I am not in my teens so I didn’t really want braces. He said that Invisalign would work great for me. He said that it’d take about a year to completely straighten both top and bottom(at first I was only planning on doing the [...]

This question is worth 10 points. =) I went to an orthodontist’s office (getting Invisalign clear braces). They took impressions using some plastic trays (one was too big and they used another smaller set). They also took pictures of inside of my mouth. To help with the pictures, they used several pieces of plastic tools. [...]