So.... my first approach with my dentist was that I wanted Invisalign braces... my dentist at the time told me she would shave my teeth down to make gaps for the teeth to move backwards and that I would probably be looking to wear the Invislign for 9 months.
I wanted to get a second opinion so called another surgery in the area that looked decent... it was a private clinic so I knew it was going to be quite costly.
Heres what the dentist said... Invisalign will not fix my overjet as its designed to fix smiles that maybe have teeth out of line and if I wanted to correct my overjet I would have to consider fixed braces and it was a choice between metal and ceramic and Id be looking at 1 year. Exactly what I didnt want to hear but hey-ho if I want to do this one year out of my life isnt much is it? Ill take the ceramic please!
Apparantly I have small facial features so my teeth look quite agressive. :-/
She sent me through to the orthodontist... who measured the overjet (7mm) and she said that me lower jaw doesnt sit with my upper jaw properly and in some circumstances they would consider jaw surgery to extend the bottom jaw... if that was my only choice I would have declined but it wasn't (phew) she said I would have to have 4 extractions 2 premolars from the top and 2 from the bottom. Quite a scary thing to think about so I said Id go away and think about it.
I went home and made lots of smiley faces in the mirror to test just how obvious those gaps would be... the answer is extremely! *sigh*
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