I had my braces off when i was 12. I had them on the top and bottom. I wore my retainer for years afterwards like I was supposed to. Finally my mouth grew too big for it. I'm now 24 and my front teeth are still moving a little bit. It is really upsetting because so much money was spent on braces and I did what they told me to do.
I don't want to bother paying to see if it can be fixed because I feel like I'll have to wear a retainer for the rest of my life. When do teeth stop moving???
2006-10-12 15:44:30 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Dental
No teeth grinding, wisdom teeth were removed, no i'm not imagining things. also i go to the dentist every 6 months. my teeth are very healthy.
2006-10-12 17:46:52 · update #1
Get yourself to a dentist, girl! You never know how important your teeth are until they start falling out. If your teeth are still moving, something not good is going on. And it is better to fork out a little money now as opposed to a lot of money later to save your teeth. Go now!
2006-10-12 15:49:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋
Wearing retainers for the rest of your life is a fairly new practice being advised by orthodontists to keep you in their office forever. I had an extreme overbite, separation between my front teeth and a cross bite as a child. I wore braces from 2nd to 11th grade. This was in the 70's. I then wore a retainer into college and lost it somewhere on campus (frat party?)who knows where but I am now in my 50's and my teeth look fine. Your bone stops growing at the bone age of 21. Those behind in bone growth who have no medical cause for it will have a bone age of 21 sometime when they are 22 or 23yars old. Certainly your bone is done growing by the time you reach 25.. After that it is over. How can your jaw continue to grow? We should all be very unattractive long faced individuals if this were true. The permanent retainer makes you a permanent patient and now days with employers providing less benefits especially in the dental area these dentists come up with all kinds of reasons to get you into their offices.When you have no dental coverage braces are the last thing you are having done. A lot of the work they are doing is harmful but they do it for the dollar so be careful and question every move they make. Who wants to be wearing a retainer when they are 40 or 50 years old? How about age 70? and will your care giver be willing to put it in your mouth for you? LOL.
2015-07-17 15:27:01 · answer #2 · answered by mea 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not to alarm you but our teeth are always moving. It's when the bite is not properly aligned that there is a problem.
After orthodontic treatment, if you do not want your teeth to shift out of alignment again (become crowded or spaced) you MUST wear your retainer for life! You need not wear them 24/7 or every day for life but at least a nightly a couple of times each week.
Protect the financial investment of your parents and the time investment you have in your smile. It's time for another retainer. It's far less costly than braces again especially nowadays (compared to 12 years ago.) Do this straightaway so that minimal correction can be made with an aligner-type appliance instead of metal, partial or full braces again.
You may only need a retainer. One should not cost over $200. That beats $5K+ and crooked teeth now that you're an adult!
A bright, shiny, straight-teeth smile is SO "in!" On the contrary, the opposite is so "out!" Even those hideous grills!! *laughing*
2006-10-12 15:59:22 · answer #3 · answered by Jhazzi 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm a dentist.
You are absolutely right. You may have to wear a retainer for the rest of your life. That's just the way it is.
One of the first things they teach us in our orthodontics classes in dental school is that there is no guarantee that teeth will not move after treatment, be it one month, one year, or twenty years after the braces are removed.
Our teeth constantly want to shift. Especially our lower teeth. There is a constant pressure for them to shift forward in the arch, i.e. towards the middle of the front of the arch. That causes the overlapping of the lower front teeth you commonly see on older people. This happens in both arches, but is much more pronounced in the lower arch. For some people, the adjacent teeth are well-enough in line that no overlapping occurs, but for most, this isn't the case.
Basically, you should have gone back to your orthodontist and had new retainers made periodically. I seriously doubt that your doctor told you, "Adios, have a good life" without informing you (or your parents) that follow-up appointments might be necessary if the teeth were shifting out of place.
At this point, you have three options: 1. braces again, 2. Invisalign (you're probably a good candidate for it since your teeth have previously been straightened and the movements required to re-align them would be simple ones), or 3. leaving your teeth as-is and having a retainer made in order to prevent further movement. It might also be possible to have a retainer made that can re-align the teeth, but that's something your doctor would know. He/she might have other options.
2006-10-12 20:41:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 0⤋
When Do Teeth Stop Moving
2017-01-09 20:19:31 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did the same thing - stopped wearing my top retainer too soon after the braces came off. Big mistake. You can try wearing your retainer - maybe your teeth haven't shifted way too much. Of course, just a little may be too much. I had so much trouble with mine. My retainer never did fit correctly afterwards - my top teeth shifted some.
2016-03-18 08:22:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go back and ask your dentist or orthodontist if you have a toungue thrust. Or, as someone else suggested your lower teeth may be bumping into the top teeth a bit too hard. This can be adjusted easily.
2006-10-12 16:54:53 · answer #7 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just had my braces taken off a few months ago, and the orthodontist told me that it would be a good idea to wear my retainers the rest of my life. And he said that, because your jaw continues to grow and change over the years. Maybe you can just get new retainers, and just wear them at night?
2006-10-12 15:49:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
This may be a silly question, but do you still have any wisdom teeth? Mine seemed to stop shifting after I had them out.
2006-10-12 15:46:19 · answer #9 · answered by Miro 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never the teeth always are moving and also you have to check if your third molars are in eruption because maybe thay are moving your other teeth
2006-10-12 16:25:17 · answer #10 · answered by ♥ Mä®î@nıtã ♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋