Dr. Estes and her team are committed to ensuring each patient and their families receive excellent care using state-of-the-art treatment options.
Treatment began at age 11 for this patient using braces. He loves his new smile!
This patient began treatment at age 13. After years of thumb sucking, we used clear aligners and had her work with a myofunctional therapist to retrain her tongue. Now, she can bite the lettuce out of a sandwich!
This patient didn’t begin treatment until the age of 25. Treatment included jaw surgery and braces to correct a severe overbite. If treatment had been done at a younger age, the issue could have been corrected without the need for surgery.
This patient had lateral incisors that were congenitally missing. Braces moved the teeth into their ideal locations while missing teeth were replaced with bonded bridges, called Maryland bridges.
This underbite caused the patient much discomfort and excessive wear on her teeth. She began treatment at the age of 32 and now finds chewing much easier and is happy to show off her smile.
We used braces to close the spaces this patient didn’t like in his smile. This created a more ideal bite. We used special bonded retainers to ensure the spaces remain closed.
This patient began treatment at the age of 10, taking advantage of two-phase treatment to get the most ideal smile. The first phase guided the growth of her jaws while the second then aligned her teeth and perfected her bite. Now at age 13, she proudly shows off her smile.
In some cases, we may not need to use braces to make improvements to the smile. This patient saw us at the age of seven because of crowding in her lower permanent teeth. We performed a procedure to reduce the width of the adjacent baby teeth, allowing the permanent incisors to align on their own.
This patient came to us with concerns from the parents from both a cosmetic perspective and the health of the erupting permanent teeth. We began treatment at age 8 for lower front teeth that were crowded and damaging the palate (roof of the mouth), and upper teeth that were very displaced from their ideal position. After we completed the first phase using partial braces and an expander, the patient’s appearance, and functionality greatly improved. Once the rest of the permanent teeth have erupted, we will evaluate if phase 2 treatment is necessary
Dr. Estes and her team are committed to ensuring each patient and their families receive excellent care using state-of-the-art treatment options.