Non Surgical

Non-Surgical Jaw Corrective Procedures

"EARLY TREATMENT IS THE KEY"

It involves early detection and care of defective jaw growth and dental problems in growing children using special removable and semi-fixed appliances to guide the growth of the respective jaws and finishing with braces in early adult dentition to avoid surgeries at later stages of life.

• Children in specified age limits ( 8-14 years) with small /backwardly placed upper /lower jaw


• Children in specified age limits with large /forwardly placed upper or lower jaw


• Children with mouth breathing habit and who snore at night


• Children with jaw deviation

• Jaw problems might require surgery in future


• Persistence of snoring and breathing distress


• Poor facial appearance


• Injury to prominent front teeth


• Speech difficulties


• Low self-esteem

"THIS TREATMENT IS ONLY POSSIBLE DURING THE ACTIVE GROWING PERIOD OF CHILDREN"

• Individual may prevent future jaw surgery


• Treatment can control growth of excessively growing jaws


• This treatment enhances growth of defective jaws


• Gives a positive pschycological boost


• Correction of Speech difficulties


• Improves self-esteem

Patients who have relatively smaller upper arch width (narrow arches), those having adenoids, deviated lower jaw owing to narrow upper arch, any syndromic condition leading to narrow upper jaw width up to the age of 15 years are indicated. They are treated using an expansion appliance which expands their narrow arches providing proper space for permanent teeth eruption, space for accommodating tongue and thereby treating the resulting consequences of narrow upper arch.