Potential Benefits of Timely Treatment
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(The American Association of Orthodontists recommends children be examined by an orthodontist between age 7 and 8)
Intercept jaw growth problems (Click here to see before and after)
Improve facial appearance and smile
Improve the width of the dental arches
Reduce or eliminate the need to extract permanent teeth
Eliminate the need for jaw bone surgery at a later date
Lower the risk of breaking protruding front teeth
Correct harmful oral habits like thumb sucking
Simplify and shorten treatment time of definitive orthodontics
Increase the stability of final treatment results
Sometimes reduce the likelihood of impacted permanent teeth
Improve speech development
Improve position of the first permanent molars
Guide the permanent teeth into more favorable positions
Improve the ability to get lips together
Preserve or gain space for erupting permanent teeth
Reduce potential for damage to the joints that open and close the jaws
Avoids the resistance to treatment that teenagers may develop
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