Before and Afters

Welcome to our smile gallery, where you can witness first-hand the results we have achieved for our patients…

Case Study: Mouth Habits

Thumb and digit sucking, tongue thrust and even professional wind instrument players can distort the position of their teeth. Here you see a young girl with a large open bite caused by persistent thumb sucking. Our approach to habit therapy is a combination of helping the person to help themselves break their habit as well as orthodontic appliances to reverse the distortion.

Encouragement and a system of daily feedback usually stops the habit quickly, sometimes overnight, and the appliance – often a fixed palatal expander – not only reverses the malocclusion (bad bite) but prevents relapse.

BEFORE

AFTER HABIT THERAPY

FINAL RESULT (after all permanent teeth have erupted)

 Case Studies: Facial Orthopaedics

If a growing person’s chin is back (for some reason it’s called a “weak chin”)  we often introduce an appliance that holds the lower jaw forward for a time and we hope that future growth potential can be brought forward and utilised earlier (around 13) so as to give a better chin projection. Here are some cases that we have treated demonstrating that. The first one was written up for an Orthodontic Scientific Journal.

BEFORE

DURING ORTHOPAEDIC PHASE

AFTER

An Invisalign Case: Anterior Crossbite correction

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AFTER

An Invisalign very deep bite and crowding case

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AFTER

Large gap between the front teeth

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ALMOST

AFTER