Missing teeth and braces question?!
Question: My son is 13, and just had the ortho workup for braces and doesn't physically have the 2 teeth next to his upper 2 front teeth.
The ortho dr wants to take his other teeth and pull them closer and pull 2 permanent bottom teeth since he is overcrowded.
So we have the dental workup today and he is uneasy of pulling the 2 permanent and wants us to have a 2nd opinion which is fine and we will, but wants to do implants instead of moving those teeth over.
So has any parents experienced this during dental workups? What did you chose and do?
Thanks!!
Answers: My son is 13, and just had the ortho workup for braces and doesn't physically have the 2 teeth next to his upper 2 front teeth.
The ortho dr wants to take his other teeth and pull them closer and pull 2 permanent bottom teeth since he is overcrowded.
So we have the dental workup today and he is uneasy of pulling the 2 permanent and wants us to have a 2nd opinion which is fine and we will, but wants to do implants instead of moving those teeth over.
So has any parents experienced this during dental workups? What did you chose and do?
Thanks!!
My son had a similar situation. Our dentist, ortho and 2nd opinion did not think implants were a good idea because of the risk of rejection as well as other issues. have the 2nd opinion but I wouldn't hesitate having the perm teeth extracted.
well if you do implants it would be a lot of money
just do wat the doctor said to do
that happened to me.
my teeth moved but there was too much of a space (they pulled a lot of my teeth) so i have one implant. i always get complimented on my smile... literally every day,
but i'm not sure the pain of all that dentistry was worth it. :)
i'm sure i'm happier with my teeth and the past pain than i would be with an overcrowded smile.
hey i'm 15 and have the same problem. my mom chose to do implants instead. i would look for a second opion because my detentist said that moving teeth over would not work because there would still be space missing some where in my mouth so i didnt really have an option. hope that helps a little.