Orthodontic Treatments
Common Treatments
Crowding of the teeth
Before
After
Patient started treatment at age eleven and wore braces for twenty-six months. He loves his new smile.
Openbite: Front teeth don't touch
Before
After
Patient sucked her thumb as a young child. She started treatment at age thirteen. She had braces and a special appliance — called a crib — to retrain the tongue, for twenty-eight months. Now she can bite the lettuce out of a sandwich.
Deep overbite: Lower front teeth bite into palate
Before
After
This adult patient (age twenty-five) required braces and jaw surgery to correct his severe overbite, with treatment taking two years. His problem could have been corrected without surgery if he had been treated before he was a teenager.
Missing lateral incisors
Before
After
This patient's lateral incisors were congenitally missing. She had braces for twenty months to move the teeth into the correct position, then the missing teeth were replaced with bonded "Maryland" bridges.
Underbite: Lower front teeth in front of upper teeth.
Before
After
Patient's underbite was causing her jaw joint discomfort and excessive wear patterns on her teeth. After thirty months of treatment starting at age thirty-two, she now finds smiling and chewing much easier.
Spacing of teeth
Before
After
Patient was bothered by the spaces between his teeth. Braces closed the spaces and gave him an ideal bite in twenty-four months. Special glued-in retainers help keep the spaces closed.
Overbite: Protruding front teeth
Before
After
At age ten, patient had a big overbite with the top teeth protruding beyond the bottom. She had two phases of treatment. The first helped her jaws to grow more harmoniously; the second aligned her teeth and bite. At age thirteen, she was proudly displaying her new smile.
Non-braces treatment
Before
After
Sometimes braces are not needed to get noticeable improvements in tooth alignment. This patient was first seen at age seven for crowding of the lower permanent teeth. A procedure was performed to reduce the width of the adjacent baby teeth and the permanent incisors aligned on their own in nine months.
Phase I
Before
After
Patient's parents were concerned about both aesthetics and the health of the erupting permanent teeth when they brought him to the orthodontist at age eight. The lower front teeth were crowded and they touched the palate, and the upper front teeth were extremely displaced from their normal positions. After twenty months of Phase I treatment with an expander and partial braces, patient's appearance and dental function was vastly improved.
Suresmile
Dr. Ribarevski is the only orthodontist in the area to utilize the Suresmile digital orthodontic treatment process. This allows our patients to spend up to 40% less time in braces. With Suresmile technology, digital images of the patients teeth and braces allow Dr. Ribarevski to virtually plan and design treatment. Robotic technology creates custom shape memory arch wires that minimize the need for routine adjustments... getting you out of braces faster. Learn more at www.suresmile.com.
iBraces
Don’t like the idea of being seen in braces...Dr. Ribarevski offers the ibraces system that allows braces to be placed behind the teeth for an invisible look. With ibraces, Dr. Ribarevski can offer “invisible” treatment without some of the limitations that clear aligner therapy (i.e. Invisalign) might encounter.
Invisalign/Clear Correct
For those patients with less severe problems...the next generation of Invisalign is offered with the Clear Correct System. The Invisalign System is a series of clear orthodontic appliances called aligners that allow you to straighten your teeth without wearing traditional braces. Each pair of aligners is worn in two week increments and moves the teeth in small steps to the desired final position. The Invisalign System is an alternative to braces for patients who have full adult dentition and complete jaw growth, and it is effective on a broad range of cases. Dr. Ribarevski can determine if you are a candidate during an initial exam.
Smartclip
Want easier visits? Smartclip self-ligating brackets allow for easier wire changes and improved oral hygiene by eliminating the use of elastic ligatures that normally hold archwires into brackets. Unlike other self-ligating brackets, smartclip brackets are a hybrid that can be passively or actively ligated depending on what the orthodontist needs to achieve.
