Sometimes, edge-edge bite can be improve without any treatment. This 8-year old boy was the case. His edge-edge bite was corrected on its own.
How to prevent orthodontic wire from poking
Wire poking is one of the biggest reason why patients visit orthodontic clinic in emergency. It can be painful to patients and sometimes the wire…
7 principles to be a good orthodontic practitioner
Principle 1. Build blue-print of treatment outcome with virtual tooth setup for every patient Let’s stop doing reactive orthodontics. Instead, perform proactive orthodontics. This may…
Can wisdom tooth push 2nd molar?
The answer is it depends. Previous study reported that wisdom tooth doesn’t have enough force to push teeth ahead of it to make anterior crowding.…
Quiz) If brackets are not bonded, how will incisor move?
IF brackets on upper centrals are debonded, what can happen? Answer) upper centrals move buccaly until they touches upper wires You may think tooth may…
Cervical vertebral maturation Staging
Sometimes, we want to know how much growth potential our patients have. There are a few methods. All of them are not perfect. One of…