Ortho for Kids (continued)

Early treatment presents the opportunity to:

• Influence jaw growth in a positive manner.
• Improve the width of the dental arches.
• Reduce the need to extract permanent teeth.
• Reduce or eliminate the need for jaw surgery.
• Lower the risk of trauma to protruded front teeth.
• Correct harmful oral habits.
• Improve esthetics and self-esteem.
• Simplify and shorten treatment times for comprehensive treatment.
• Increase stability of final treatment results.
• Reduce likelihood of impacted permanent teeth.
• Improve speech development.
• Improve positions of permanent first molars.
• Guide permanent teeth in more favorable positions.
• Improve lip competence.
• Preserve or gain space for erupting permanent teeth.
• Encourage better compliance before the “uncooperative” teenage years.

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