Orthodontist Rancho Cucamonga, Dr Robert Stockdale

 Common Treatments

 

Crowding of the teeth

 

Patient started treatment at age eleven and

wore braces for 26 months. He loves his new

smile.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Openbite: Front teeth don’t touch

 

Patient sucked her thumb as a young child.

She started treatment at age 13. She had braces

and a special appliance — called a crib — to retrain

the tongue, for 28 months. Now she can bite the

lettuce out of a sandwich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deep overbite: Lower front teeth

bite into palate

 

This adult patient, age 25, required braces and jaw

surgery to correct his severe overbite. Treatment

lasted two years. His problem could have been

corrected without surgery if he had been treated

before he was a teenager.

 

 

 

 

 

Missing lateral incisors

 

This patient’s lateral incisors were congenitally missing.

She had braces for 20 months to move the teeth into the

correct position. The missing teeth were then replaced

with bonded "Maryland" bridges.

 

 

 

 

 

Underbite: Lower front teeth in

front of upper teeth

 

Patient’s underbite was causing her jaw joint discomfort

and permitting excessive wear patterns on her teeth. After

30 months of treatment, starting at age 32, she now finds

smiling and chewing much easier.
 

 

 

 

Spacing of teeth

 

Patient was bothered by the spaces between his teeth.

Braces closed the spaces and gave him an ideal bite in 24

months. Special glued-in retainers help keep the spaces closed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overbite: Protruding front teeth

 

At age ten, patient had a large overbite with the top teeth

protruding beyond the bottom. She had two phases of

treatment. The first helped her jaws to grow more

harmoniously, and the second aligned her teeth and bite.

At age 13, she was proudly displaying her new smile.

 

 

 

 

 

Non-braces treatment

 

Sometimes braces are not needed to get noticeable

improvements in tooth alignment. This patient was first

seen at age seven for crowding of the lower permanent

teeth. A procedure was performed to reduce the width of

the adjacent baby teeth, and the permanent incisors aligned

on their own in nine months.

Phase-One

 

Patient's parents were concerned both about aesthetics and

the health of the erupting permanent teeth when they brought

him to the orthodontist at age eight. The lower front teeth were

crowded and they touched the palate, and the upper front teeth

were extremely displaced from their normal positions. After 20

months of Phase-One treatment with an expander and partial

braces, the boy's appearance and dental function were vastly

improved.

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