Non Extraction Philosophy

My Philosophy of
Non-Extraction Orthodontic Therapy

My philosophy of non-extraction orthodontic therapy creates beautiful wide, U-shaped arches and great, full smiles like Julia Roberts!

When bicuspids are extracted, the dental arches tend to become more narrow and the arches V-shaped. This creates dark voids in the corner of the mouth between the teeth and corner of the lips (dark corridor), but with non-extraction therapy we are able to create a full complete smile without this effect. Also the profile of these patients ends up being more pleasing overall.

What Allows Me to Create A Full Smile?

• Receiving the referral at the ideal age of nine or ten
• Mantaining space for prematurely lost primary teeth
• Other factors including proper skeletal formation and growth patterns

What's the Advantage of Early Orthodontic Referral?

If I am able to see a patient at the age of nine or ten, I can expand the arches because the facial bones are still growing and this will create a wide, U-shaped arches and allow us to treat the patient without extractions. In the majority of cases if the patient is referred at the optimum timing (age nine to ten), then there is a high probability of a non-extraction treatment plan.

If primary teeth are lost or removed prematurely, then the appropriate space maintaining appliance must be used to retain the arch length, thus providing us with enough arch length to allow complete and proper eruption of all permanent teeth.