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Month: October 2011

Malocclusion

Malocclusion

What is an overbite? Malocclusion is not only a problem estetitki, but also a violation of your health. Malocclusion, in most cases, leads to an increase in load on the dentition at the time of swallowing food. Such a violation may lead ruzrusheniyu dentition. The fact is that over time people can mark the mobility of teeth (dentition), and accordingly in the future and tooth loss. Malocclusion leads to expose the neck of the tooth, in consequence of which there is space between the teeth. If you do not start treating malocclusion in the early stages, it can lead to gum disease. Another one of the unpleasant consequences of misuse occlusion is a pathology of temporomandibular joint.

Temporomandibular joint is called the mounting position of the lower jaw to the temporal bone. The symptoms of this disorder are severe headaches, pain chewing food, 'snapping' sound when you open your mouth. Of course, that overbite and leads to violations of the aesthetic, which affects the shape of face and smiling person. In some cases, the anomalies bite the man is even embarrassed smile: or too bulging teeth to the jaw or gums, and sometimes the upper lip is slightly raised. Sometimes the patient simply wants to improve the appearance of the dentition, to his smile for him and the other a pleasure (and even if he can boast not just smile, and snow-white smile! …) Bite – a merging of the teeth of both jaws with various movements of the mandible. Dentists bite is also called central occlusion. When such occlusion (occlusion – closure) line that runs between the central incisors of both dentitions, coincides with the line in the middle of the face. Concepts and "bite" and "central occlusion" are virtually identical, that is, bite – the ratio of dentition in their central occlusion.