Fixing an overbite...advice needed

[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?