Fixing an overbite...advice needed

[Pagedown]

Hey guys, i am 20 y/o and i have an overbite...
Before i go on, let me explain, my head is circle shaped and my profile is bad. My parents thought about getting it fixed when i was about 12 yrs old but financial problems seemed to bar them. For the past year i started chewing with my front teeth and extending my jaw forward thinking it would fix it as i grew older. Sadly i got no results other then my teeth getting crooked and grinding my front teeth as i used them to chew. My crappy planned experiment failed. Its really depressing. I know most people will just forget about it and think its not something to worry over. But being a figure artist i know my facial structure is very different.

So the past few weeks i've been looking into getting my over overbite fixed and get a better profile. I made an appointment with my dentist by making a phony excuse about my teeth hurting, so i wouldn't look like a shallow person to my parents or dentist (relax i go to uni). After making pointless conversations about teeth pain i bring up the topic about my overbite; we discuss it and he says "There is nothing wrong with an overbite"...and that was it. And now i am freaking desperate, my body is good but its just that one retarded thing. So here are my questions:

How do i get my overbite fixed? who do i go to get it fixed? Price range? has anyone else done this procedure? Any advice would be appreciated...

thanks alot!

 

[vh756ct]

You need cirurgy done to fix it.

At first they put braces in you teeth, to make sure they get align. After a year they perfom a cirurgy they called "orthogonatic surgery"

Do some google research you'll find your answer.

Sorry about the spelling.

 

[Afgrl]

My mom had a really bad overbite, and had braces & then a retainer for quite a while (if I remember right it was 2-3 years) they had talked about doing the surgery but I guess there were many risks with the surgery and she decided not to go through with it. But, her smile is perfect now, can't tell she ever even had problems with her teeth or jaw. I'd definately say get a second opinion about it. Find a different dentist (someone that will give you a referral to an orthodontist.) It depends on how big your overbite is as to how long you'd have to wear them. I've also heard of Invisalign, but heard they don't work quite as well. Like I said, just depends on the orthodontist and hopefully you'll get it figured out. Good luck!

I know how you feel, I have a slight overbite and a little gap between my teeth, it drives me crazy. But everyone I know says it's not as bad as I think it is. I'm pretty critical of myself when it comes to my teeth, though. Once again, I wish you luck and hope that you are able to get this taken care of like you'd like to.

 

[elite916]

I am a 2nd year dental student and I just recently had a class/lab in ortho. Invisalign will not work for you because it is only made to slightly adjust anterior teeth from canine to canine.

Braces should work to improve or diminish your overbite...i think you may mean overjet which is how far your upper maxillary teeth are in comparison to your lower mandibular teeth . A little bit of overjet is natural. I can send you a powerpoint on ortho patients that show before and after profile views of people who had braces. Makes a good difference.

 

[vh756ct]

I am a 2nd year dental student and I just recently had a class/lab in ortho. Invisalign will not work for you because it is only made to slightly adjust anterior teeth from canine to canine.

Braces should work to improve or diminish your overbite...i think you may mean overjet which is how far your upper maxillary teeth are in comparison to your lower mandibular teeth . A little bit of overjet is natural. I can send you a powerpoint on ortho patients that show before and after profile views of people who had braces. Makes a good difference.

Could you also send me a copy to da. benet @ uol. com . br Thanks

 

[elite916]

Could you also send me a copy to da. benet @ uol. com . br Thanks

I don't understand your email, is it [email protected] ?

 

[vh756ct]

I don't understand your email, is it da. benet @ uol. com ?

The extra space is to prevent spam, so yes my email is da. benet @uol. com .br just remove the empety space and also remove your reply with my full email adress, its just something i do to prevent spam, it works

 

[Pagedown]

hmmm....i went to the ortho couple of months ago, and he told me that i have a very small over bite, about 9%. He said i have a very small jaw, and i have to agree with him. I am the only one in my family with a small jaw. I have to hang out my jaw and suck in my cheeks for my face to look remotely proportional. Is there any way to fix a small jaw? Open to all options atm. I really truely want to get over this and move on with my life.

 

[elite916]

 

[elite916]

So this lady in the pic i sent had ortho treatment. As you can see by the pic, her overjet was corrected greatly. The treatment is also less invasive. I'm sure you can have surgery done where they move your jaw forward, but I don't know anything on that. Gluck man.

P.S. I tried to send the powerpoint that illustrates it a little bit more but it was too big...sorry.

 

[Rift]

well one of the suggested "cheap fixes" is a chin implant. - I don't quite understand the mechanics of how that's supposed to help but many people swear upon it. I guess lift and push, but I am still not wise enough to understand the physics of it.

Headsets and neck braces (connected to your teeth) as adults SUCK. And half to be watched carefully. I had a problem when my ortho took at trip to promote his book and his assistant reset it wrong and I had it like that for three months, which set me back two years they estimated. But Yeah, enough of my juvinile drama.

The other popular is a slight breaking of the jaw and a reset. It's a risky surgery, painful and the recovery time varies... But it's better to see a 'good' dential surgeon on alternatives that can be done. sometimes it isn't so much a re-aligning of the jaw as it is fixing the rest of your teeth and wearing a discrete piece while you sleep, a bite guard of sorts, to help keep it in align (but a different format than the invisalign concept)

But I am kind of clueless on all this to really be posting in regards to it. And I haven't found much in discussion of it from pros.

Personally, for as many absurd breaks I've had to my body and face, just drug me up, break my jaw, let it take a year to show and I'd be happy as opposed to all this daily routine. I've got enough on my plate for that to add anything more. Never a quick fix I know. But seriously, it sucks.

 

[Rift]

Pardon my posting of a link here, but maybe this willh help. Ihttp://www.calweb.com/~goldman/orthognathics.html


Edit: To give an idea of costs, this place deserve multiple bumps for me, but your local could be a great option for you. You just have to ASK about ALL "All" the costs included, a lot of
places leave some important and ltittle things out.

Ihttp://www.plenitas.com/en/chin-implant-mentoplasty.html

they don't do gnathic to my knowledge, but I know there's a few reputuable places in the upper midwest. But way outside of my budget anywhere from 15k or more. (But that's mostly because they don't do iti in their clinic, they reserve space at the local hospital.)

 

[neros9]

I am a 2nd year dental student and I just recently had a class/lab in ortho. Invisalign will not work for you because it is only made to slightly adjust anterior teeth from canine to canine.

Braces should work to improve or diminish your overbite...i think you may mean overjet which is how far your upper maxillary teeth are in comparison to your lower mandibular teeth . A little bit of overjet is natural. I can send you a powerpoint on ortho patients that show before and after profile views of people who had braces. Makes a good difference.

Could youplease send me the Powerpoint presentation?