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IV:
Extracting Teeth for Orthodontic Treatment:
A Better Way.
Q: Do teeth need to be extracted for braces to work
right?
A: Yes, sometimes teeth do need to be extracted
to make room for the rest to be straightened properly.
Q: Does extracting baby teeth help?
A: Usually not. It may be a “quick fix”
temporarily that allows newly arrived or existing adult teeth
to be straight, especially across the lower front, but this
often causes entrapment or blocking out of other permanent
teeth that have not arrived yet and still are forming down
in the jaw bone. They get stuck in there. Then several years
later these other trapped permanent teeth must be extracted
too. Not good!
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