How Braces Move Teeth

Kids that suck their thumbs often have buck-teeth.  Why?

A girl from Gladstone, Oregon asked me why her front teeth stuck out so far.  She was a first grader who found it very hard to stop being a thumb sucker.

Teeth are connected to jaw bones by thousands of tiny fibers that surround the roots and permit slight movements of the teeth during chewing and prevent the teeth from being dissolved away by the bone cells called osteoclasts.  Read the rest...

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