Extremely crooked teeth before and after braces
Braces can progressively move severely crowded or rotated teeth by applying controlled force through brackets, wires, and supporting tissues.
What is the direct answer?
Braces can progressively move severely crowded or rotated teeth by applying controlled force through brackets, wires, and supporting tissues.
What does this question mean?
Severe crowding may involve insufficient arch space, rotated teeth, impacted teeth, jaw-size differences, or a bite problem. Before-and-after photographs show alignment changes, but treatment also aims to establish a functional bite and maintain the teeth.
What can you do next?
An orthodontic assessment includes photographs, digital scans or impressions, bite measurements, and radiographs when indicated. The orthodontist then plans space creation, tooth movement, attachments, and retention, sometimes coordinating with other dental treatment.
When should you seek dental care?
Book an orthodontic assessment if teeth cannot be cleaned well, chewing is difficult, teeth are erupting out of position, or crowding is worsening. Urgent care is needed for facial injury, uncontrolled pain, or swelling.
What should you ask the dentist?
Ask what causes the crowding, whether space can be created without removing teeth, how impacted teeth will be managed, and what retainer plan follows active treatment.
Frequently asked questions
Can home care replace a dental examination?
Home care may ease a symptom, but it cannot identify or correct decay, infection, gum disease, a crack, or a failing restoration.
What changes make this more urgent?
Rapid worsening, swelling, fever, heavy bleeding, severe pain, or difficulty swallowing or breathing calls for prompt dental or emergency assessment.