Dental TREATMENTS using INVISALIGN IN FLORENCE

The duration of dental treatment may vary due to different factors that are not always predictable, such as the type of body growth, how quickly the adult teeth take the primary teeth's place, and how much the patient is willing to cooperate.

The duration can also depend on the type of issue that needs to be treated. A dental treatment may last from just a few months up to 2, max. 3 years, for an adult. On the other hand, for as the teeth are still developing in a growing child, alternate periods of time are used, for example, two sessions of treatment may be needed, during mixed dentition and then as soon as all the permenant teeth have erupted. 

Yes, this is why a fixation or maintenance stage is important to stabilise the results obtained.

A fixed retainer stabilises the dental result, it is a steel or fiberglass braided wire that is glued to the inner surface of the teeth.

The duration of the retainer stage varies in depending on many different factors, such as how old the patient is, and the severity of the malocclusion.

Yes, if a patient continues with their bad habits such as breathing through their mouth, abnormal swallowing, pipe smoking, nail biting, uncontrolled forces can be put on the teeth which then cause unwanted movement.

This can vary and often depends on how severe the malocclusion is.

Treatment tends to start early, at around the age of 4 or 5 as if the malocculsion is a skeletal issue it may affect growth, for example, producing a crossbite with lateral deviation of the jaw or skeletal class III malocculsions.

Braces, especially the fixed braces, make it easier for bacterial plaque to build up, but they do not cause tooth decay themselves. By carefully following the cleaning and brushing instructions given by the orthodontist during the treatment, there is no danger of tooth decay or gum inflammation. The brushing technique simply needs to be adapted and needs to last for a longer period of time.