How to treat open jaw

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My teeth are upper and lower teeth can not bite, should be open jaw. There is no cutting function, and there is air leakage when speaking. It's about 5mm. How to treat it? I asked my dentist to make porcelain teeth. Let's take a look at the following.

How to treat open jaw

First, doctors should follow the etiological treatment and get rid of bad oral habits, such as spitting, licking teeth, stretching tongue, sucking thumb and biting lip. First, use the method of persuasion and education. If children have rickets, they should be treated first. If the third molar is impacted, it should be removed first and then treated. The vertical traction of the removable appliance and the chin pocket of the head cap is effective in the treatment of large posterior alveolar in children.

Second, before the age of 10, we can correct the deformity with appliance. The combination of Orthodontics and surgery is used in the older patients with obvious skeletal deformity. Fixed appliances, such as edgewise appliance and fine wire appliance, were used for vertical traction between upper and lower jaw to raise the alveolar height of anterior teeth. Sometimes the height of the posterior alveolar can be lowered.

Third: we should know a lot about how to treat anterior teeth. The harm of anterior teeth opening is very great. It seriously affects the cutting function of anterior teeth, swallowing function and pronunciation function.

matters needing attention

Patients with anterior teeth opening and closing are prone to open mouth breathing, which is because the upper and lower teeth can not be closed, and open mouth breathing will bring a series of hazards, such as chronic pharyngitis.