Braces.. results not as good as expected.. help

[CharlieBoo]

Hi, paid for dd two years ago to have braces fitted as she didn’t qualify on the nhs. We are just over a week away from them being removed but she now has a gap between her two front teeth that is quite big. This wasn’t there before but now they’ve been put into the right position it is.. the orthodontist is saying that she can’t get them any closer and the top of the two front teeth are meeting and that as the teeth are rounded rather than straight that is what is causing the gap and there’s nothing she can do.

DD is worried that the gap is not going to look nice.. I would say it’s about 2mil..

im not sure whether to get a second opinion before they are removed or this is just how it is. Has anyone been through this?

thanks

I think they look beautiful - really natural.
I'm not a fan of the one big while mono-tooth celebrity look, I like a bit of character & variation in teeth.

One of my teeth was made to look slightly wider with composite material to fill a gap and a slightly twisted tooth was made to look flat, so there are options if she's not completely happy.

An orthodontists job is to move the teeth, not change the shape of teeth.

It is absolutely not lazy or substandard treatment to leave teeth whole. The teeth are straight and in line.

The point of interproximal reduction is to create space, again not change the aesthetics of teeth. It's usually done for invisalign because invisalign doesn't create full body movement of teeth like train track braces.

The DDs teeth are straight and have a lovely natural shape. There's no gap. In order to get them touching all the way down with interproximal reduction you'd have to remove quite a bit of tooth tissue which would damage the tooth. If OPs dd does want to change the shape of her teeth she would need to see a cosmetic dentist for composite but the orthodontist has done their job