Potential Benefits of Timely Treatment |
| - Infulence growth of the jaws 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 |
| - Reduce appreance-consciousness |
| - Simplify and shorten treatment time for definitive orthodontic treatment |
| - Increase stability of final treatment results |
| - Reduce likelihood of impacted permanent teeth |
| - Improve speech development |
| - Improve position of first permanent molars |
| - Guide permanent teeth into more favorable positions |
| - Improve lip closure |
| - Preserve or gain space for erupting permanent teeth |
| - Reduce potential for damage to TM joints |
| - Better cooperation before the teenage years |
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Each patient pictured below benefited from timely referral and treatment before all permanent teeth erupted.
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