A trip to the orthodontist in Harley Street should be on the list of must-dos for every parent with young children. Bringing your child in for a check-up with the orthodontist at Harley Street Dental Clinic when they are around seven years old will allow us to find out what the future holds for the alignment of their teeth. And if there are problems on the way, knowing what’s in store means we can formulate a treatment plan to deal with problems as they appear rather than waiting until they have arrived and settled in.
In the past, parents expected to bring their children to the orthodontist in Harley Street when they were 11 or 12 years old, and most, if not all, of their adult teeth were already descended and in place. Nowadays however, we can accurately predict how the teeth are going to descend and what problems, if any, there will be. This means we can correct the position of the teeth by guiding them into the right place with suitable braces, rather than waiting for them to have settled into their misalignments that we can have to correct. It makes sense really.
Jaw issues
Although more and more adults are now getting braces for their wonky teeth, nothing beats getting your teeth realigned when you are a child by the orthodontist in Harley Street. Indeed, there are certain issues related to the jaw that need to be treated in childhood when the jawbones are still malleable. If the arches are too narrow to comfortably accommodate the teeth, they will come through crowded and some may not descend properly. We can widen the jawbone when your child is still young. If issues such as this are left until after the age of about 18, the bone will have set hard and will not be able to change.
Braces for kids
We have a wide variety of braces for kids. We often find that young children are far less self-conscious than teenagers and so are happy to have metal braces, and these can be brightened up and made a feature of by adding colourful elastics to them.