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Oh, that's tough about the cyclothymic disorder. I have to say that your upper arch looks really good in that pick. No crowding to my eye and I love the way it flares out nicely in the posterior direction. Look at my narrow, and comparitively wonky, upper arch in this pic: http://farm4.static.flickr...

I need your advice... It's been a year since I first began to look into the possibility of getting something done with my teeth/jaws. To a large extent things have moved slowly and have almost been on the back burner due to work and other commitments. However, I have had a number of consultations an...

They've probably done a tracing from a lateral radiograph, and on measuring things on this found your lower jaw to be correctly - or near enough - proportioned in relation to other cephalometric landmarks. So best leave it alone, I guess. They can do all the correction by working with the upper jaw....

Hi, can they not do the expansion and the moving of the maxilla forwards in one operation? I mean if they're going to detach the whole maxilla in a le fort I to move it forwards could they not split it down the middle as well and do the expansion there and then? I think I read somewhere that this is...

Oops, only getting back to this now. But thanks anyway, guys, for the replies. As this is cosmetic it's all private and so I've referred myself privately for a variety of consultations. So, the ball is already rolling - albeit slowly - and I'm past the point of wondering whether I should go to my GP...

Hi, I was just wondering if to go ahead with getting braces and then having surgery will my GP need to be involved? Or is it just the patient, the orthodontist and the oral surgeon?

This is in the UK as I'm not sure people have GPs in the US.

Just wanted to get some info on the angles at which the front surfaces of my incisors should be at if I had a 'perfect' bite. Are both the upper and lower incisors meant to be vertical or tipped forwar slightly with the incisal edges being a bit more anterior?

With breadsticks that hard I dread to think how tough toast must be across the Pond!

But seriously, that's a pity. But as you say maybe it was on it's way to breaking and had nothing to do with what you ate. Maybe it was faulty to begin with.

Hi Audra, only getting back to this now. :roll: I suppose the thing I'm asking is why there is any horizontal gap at all in the normal bite. I mean surely all that's required - based on what I know so far - is for the upper incisors to just be ahead of the lowers to allow the vertical overlap to occ...

Ok, I thought I'd start a new thread to ask this question as the other one was a bit waylaid with my mistaken assumption that a normal bite involved a genuine overjet. In reading and being told what the situation really is I now know that the average overjet in a normal occlusion is 2mm, and not wha...

Yeah, I've obviously been mistaken here. I actually looked at a few pics that people had posted up on flickr of their teeth - as well as having a read of a few orthodontic books - and to my surprise all I could see was that people's teeth do meet quite closely at the front. I think what may have thr...

Ok, I've just returned from a weekend at a huge public event – a tallships festival in Belfast. So given my new hobby of teeth spotting I had ample opportunity to look at the various bites people seem to have. And again, as I'd been saying in previous posts, the vast majority of people appeared to...

Class II, I'm not trying to be obtuse or anything but I'm not sure I follow your reasoning. Surely there are plenty of people with a class II malocclusion with upper incisors that tip forwards and away from their lower incisors - Mimmy (If you don't mind me using you as an example :) ) is a case in ...

This may seem a bit of a strange desire but as I have a class III malocclusion, with my incisors meeting edge to edge, I’d actually prefer to have something of an overjet. My reasoning is that I’d like a normal bite and the profile that comes with it and most people seem to have a slight overjet...

Hey, I've just had this and didn't know it! :shock: More than a month back I thought I'd dose myself with Corsodyl (UK brand, called Perio something in the US, I think) mouth wash as it treats gum problems - the main ingredient is chlorhexidine digluconate. Anyway it said on the label that it may ca...