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My ortho charges $5000 CDN for braces and an extra $600 for ceramic. If you wanted to you could just have ceramic on top for $300 extra. I've heard that some ortho's won't do ceramic on the bottom, why is that?
My ortho wouldn't put ceramics on the bottom because he said that sometimes the teeth will hit against them, and the ceramics are stronger than your teeth so they will break your teeth.
I got 8 ceramics on the top for $200 extra, which i was glad to pay. The are still noticable, but it looks more like I'm wearing a retainer than braces.
my ortho charges 4200 for your choice of metal, gold or ceramic. i went with all metal because the ortho recomended them for my case. This price also includes up to 3 sets of retainers or 3 yrs retention care.
Extract #3 6/07 implant 10/07
Upper Molar bands
Bite Plate 12/12/05-5/20/06
spacers all lower arch first 10 weeks
Braced 12/12/05
New ortho 2/8/07
(I'm in Toronto and all amounts are Canadian dollars)
My doctor charges $4800 for all metal, and I paid $5800 for all ceramics ($500 per arch) which I think is a steal, because he included into this everything: even micro-implants. With other doctors, they'd send me out to a surgeon to do it, for much more $. Plus I'm much more confident dealing with an ortho/surgeon, since he's more experienced. And when one person is coordinating the entire treatment, I think the outcome will be better.
As for the issue when upper teeth knock against lower brackets, I have had that problem, but they just put occlusal (blue) bumps on back molars, that makes space between your upper and lower arch. At first it bothered me a lot, but lately they've been trimming the bumps quite well. I don't notice them and they're doing their job, my teeth are not in contact and do not chip.
I have a friend her name is Lucia Williams shes very short and she wears braces . she is around 50 years old, even thugh she don't look like it, shes so adorable, back to what i was saying, yes she is also my mom' s friend, nd I am lucky enough to have her as my school guidence counciler.She wears braces, the reason she wears them is because if she didn't her teeth would fall out and her teeth would cut into the roof of her mouth nd would cause her such pain and she had a bad overjet, horrific, she describes it to me.well yes she is a guidence counciler and got the braces not too long ago. she has the Clear Ceramic ones on the top, becuase she talks to people teenagers like every minute of everyday and she dicided to go with the clear ceramic kinds on her top row of teeth and the Traditional Steel metal kind on her bottom row . though she has the clear on top she didn't want them to be that visable, all her 9-1 (Freshmen Division 1 {that's her division only}) can tell and all know she wears braces as much as she didn't want ppl to see they all know. But even though she says she hates braces her end resuklt will be her keeping her teeth nd having them be perfect for her and no moore pain. which is good, she's too mice a person to have to go through that much pain.
