How much braces you need to wear to align your teeth, how braces are put on
Braces must be worn for a period of 1 year to 3 years. The exact period depends on the severity of the dentofacial pathology, the age of the patient and the presence of concomitant diseases. The timing and rules of wearing bracket systems to correct the bite will be discussed in the article.
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How and for how long do they wear braces for straightening teeth
Orthodontists put the corrective system only on healthy teeth, so first you need to cure or remove all diseased units. In order to perfectly align your teeth, braces must be worn constantly, that is, without removing them. Therefore, caries should be treated before the placement of the corrective arc on the curved crowns, and not after.
The timing of installation of the corrective system greatly depends on the type of device selected. Usually the construction is worn by the orthodontist in 1 hour, but time can be increased or decreased depending on the individual characteristics of the anatomical structure of the dentition of the person.
Bracket system installation takes place in several stages:
- Cleansing the tooth surface from plaque and food debris using a special paste and brush.
- Etching and drying of enamel.
- Application of adhesive adhesive.
- Fixation of the structure.
- Installation of an orthodontic arch.
- Fixation of power ligatures.
After installing the corrective system, you need to change the toothpaste (the dentist usually prompts the right brand) and be more careful about oral hygiene. At least one month after the procedure, you should re-visit the dentist to make a small correction. In the future, you will need to go to the dentist every month.
During the correction of the bite, in no case should you remove the standing system even for several hours, since the crowns are able to take their original position in a minimum short time. Also during this period it is contraindicated to take the following foods:
- hard fruits and vegetables;
- sweets, especially toffee;
- nuts
- coffee and tea (if there are sapphire or ceramic designs);
- hot or cold food.
From the observance of the rules of personal hygiene and from the food included in the diet, the state of the dental system, and therefore the duration of occlusion correction, depends.
After removal of the orthodontic design, the retention period will begin, within which special retainers are put on the patient’s crowns, designed to maintain the achieved effect. They put these designs for a short time, in addition, patients can independently take corrective trainers.
The video shows how to put braces on teeth:
What affects the timing of wearing bracket systems
The length of the brace system wearing period depends on many factors:
- the severity of the dental abnormality: the straightening of one tooth occurs quickly, and the alignment of the entire dentition takes a long time;
- patient age: the older the person, the slower the correction of the dental row;
- individual characteristics of the person himself;
- crown reactions to movement;
- type of orthodontic construction used;
- Bracket positioning accuracy.
Dental abnormalities
The more complex the dental defect, the more time it will take to fix it. With slight curvature of the dentition, the duration of wearing braces will be 1 year. But with an incorrect (cross, open) bite or crowding of individual teeth, orthodontic treatment can take up to 48 months.
The most difficult to treat dental pathologies include:
- underdevelopment of the upper and (or) lower jaw;
- incomplete closure of different parts of the dentition;
- overlapping of the lower crowns by the upper;
- crossing of incisors with complete closure of the jaws.
Patient age
Orthodontic systems are more effective to use in childhood, since children still grow and form bone tissue, and therefore the correction of the bite is simpler and faster. In people over 20 years of age, bones represent a fully formed, dense structure that is extremely difficult to change.
In adult patients, skeletal growth is completely stopped, so expanding their jaw arch is very difficult. But in dental practice, there were examples of correct occlusion correction even in patients over 60 years of age, so you can’t refuse to correct dental defects at any age. This procedure is safe even for people with chronic diseases.
Positioning accuracy
The accuracy of the installation of braces depends entirely on the professionalism of the orthodontist. If he puts the structure right from the start, the bite recovers faster. When installing bracket systems, 3 key parameters must be considered:
- height
- width
- tilt angle.
Type of system to put on
The period of wearing braces depends on the material from which they are made. Ceramic designs last longer than metal, which is associated not only with their reduced efficiency, but also with extreme fragility - ceramic braces often break.
Correction of crowns with a sapphire system will take 2.5–3 years, the same leveling of teeth with plastic constructions lasts. Correction of the bite with the help of lingual braces, which are installed on the inner side of the teeth, requires more time than straightening the dental row using the vestibular system (external).
There are also self-ligating braces (ligature-free) in which there is no usual blockage, due to which the process of correcting and moving crowns is faster. The minimum wearing period for self-ligating braces is 1 year. If you need to correct a simple dental defect, for example, to align one tooth, then you will have to walk with a correcting dental structure less - from several months to six months.
How many adult patients wear braces
By time adults wear braces for about 2-3 years. The long term is due to the fact that they have:
- fully formed dentition;
- tissue regeneration is very slow;
- metabolic processes are reduced.
There is no maximum age allowed to install such corrective systems. The dentist determines the possibility of using a dental bite correction system based on information about the general condition of the patient’s body, absence or presence of diseases of the oral cavity and dental pathologies.
In the presence of serious dentofacial defects, the term of wearing corrective systems by an adult patient can be increased to 5 years. If the teeth are not very crooked, then you will have to wear braces for less than the prescribed period - how much the orthodontist decides.
It is contraindicated without the permission of the doctor to remove the corrective system, such an action can not only destroy the fruits of all work and return the teeth to their original position, but also break the crowns.
How long will the bite in children equalize?
Children's braces practically do not differ from adult models. They are also attached to each tooth individually, but correct various dental pathologies in children:
- the presence of an average diastema;
- crowding of incisors;
- the presence of three;
- dystopia.
Correction of the average diastema
Diastema is a minor gap located between the central incisors. Normally, it should be closed by 5 years, if this did not happen, the pathology is corrected with braces or special caps. When choosing a corrective system, the age of the child is taken into account. To correct the diastema, orthodontic designs are worn for about a year.
Decrease three
Tremas are the gaps between any crowns other than the central ones, since the gap between them is called a diastema. Their presence is the norm for milk teeth and pathology for permanent. Tremas not only do not look aesthetically pleasing, but can also catalyze the development of caries, as food will accumulate in them. To align the distance between the teeth, braces need to be worn for about a year.
Alignment of the dentition with crowding of incisors
This defect develops if there is not enough space on the gum for the cutting of the incisors. This usually happens when molars and premolars erupt ahead of schedule. With this pathology, the orthodontist removes one of the curved incisors, and then installs a corrective system. General treatment will take about a year - six months.
Dystopia treatment
Dystopia or transposition is teething in the wrong place. Most often, pathology occurs in infants due to trauma during childbirth. To correct a defect, an incorrectly crawled out tooth is removed, and those molars and premolars that are in the neighborhood are corrected with braces. The dentition is corrected within 1-2 years.
How long to walk with braces - minimum time
If we summarize briefly, we can conclude that:
- an adult with a mild pathology needs to walk with braces 2-3 years;
- in the presence of chronic dental diseases, the minimum treatment period is increased to 4-5 years;
- 1–1.5 years are enough for a child to align his teeth.
All terms of correction of the bite are approximate, how long different patients will wear braces, depends on the individual characteristics of their body.
How to speed up bite correction
Dentists in Moscow and around the world have not yet found an effective way to greatly accelerate the process of bite restoration, since bone tissue changes slowly. An increase in power loads will not lead to the desired result, it is also impossible to make the bone tissue of an adult more elastic. If scientists can find a way to return teenage bones, mobility and elasticity to the bones of adults, this will be a breakthrough not only in orthodontics and dentistry, but in all osteology.
It is impossible to determine in advance and with absolute accuracy how many braces will need to be worn in order to align crooked teeth. Only the attending physician can answer this question after a visual examination of the oral cavity of a particular patient.
