2/24/12

Health And Beauty: About Splints And Dental Braces

By Katherine Wong


Being a victim of dental negligence is the last thing you want to happen to you. When there is a projecting tooth, or one that is excess of your gum line, or an outgrowth, then there definitely is a demand for braces. Braces can be made for youngsters and grownups alike, although the fix can be simpler among kids whose teeth and gums are still softer than adults'.

Many dentists propose having a splint first preceding getting dental braces. A splint is similar to a mouth guard and functions to help align your jaw and correct your bite. Without a splint, dental correction is not feasible, because the braces will fix you on your wrong facial line, jaw line, and bite.

The jaw is a special part of the face. It gives the face its shape. It also helps chewing. Through dental extraction, a jaw can be misaligned. For one, there will be a movement of the teeth to fill out the space for the extracted tooth, in case there is no false tooth made to fill in the spot. Also, the pushing and pulling that go with tooth extraction can get a trauma on the jaw. When a jaw is misaligned, certain brain endings also misalign, generating the following conditions: nausea, vomiting, migraine, deafness, vertigo, etc.

The splint arrays your jaw the right way. Aside from accomplishing the right bite, this results in a better facial form. With this in place, you are now ready to wear dental braces to set up the position of the teeth matching to the right alignment. More than beauty, this is, of course, a matter of being healthy.

A lot of diseases with accounted symptoms of headache, nausea, deafness, vertigo, among others have been misdiagnosed, without the patient realising that a bad jaw alignment or a pre-existing tooth extraction as the probable cause. In worse conditions, this can lead to TMJ or tempolo-mandibular jaw misalignment, which a splint followed by a dental brace can fix.




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