Your teeth can be aligned without unnecessary extractions! Other times, a dentist may move, retract, an arch too far, creating an over bite or under bite.
But, wait, if we’re supposed to have 14 teeth on the bottom and 14 teeth on the top, excluding our wisdom teeth, why does a tooth have to be extracted? It doesn’t! Your teeth and jaws are a matrix that are designed to fit together and support a host of other functions. So what’s the big deal? In the past few decades and even today, sadly, some dentists recommend that perfectly healthy teeth be extracted to help with alignment and crowding. Unless you remove the exact same tooth on the opposing arch, your teeth will not come together the way they are intended. How can it? You have fewer teeth on one arch than you do the other. If you remove a tooth on one arch or if you’re missing a tooth on one arch and braces are used to shift teeth to close that space, the arch that was shifted no longer aligns with the other. We are intended to have these! When aligned correctly, they fit together just right, whether we are at rest or chewing. Extraction Retraction Regret is a prime example.Įxcluding our wisdom teeth, we have 14 teeth on the top and 14 teeth on the bottom. There are times in our lives and career, where we don’t know what we don’t know until science, research and education teaches us. Whether you’re the patient or the dental provider.
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