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my daughters bottom teeth are behind the top set....

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padboz · 26/02/2008 13:06

shes 14 months. She happy, eating fine. I'm not worried about it in the short term, but is it going to cause problems other than cosmetic ones, is it something that might fix itself? and if not, what will the poor thing have to go through to sort it out?

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peppamum · 26/02/2008 13:44

I had this as a child and I had surgery to correct it when I was 17. We weren't told about any orthodontics to correct it, although i had to wear a brace for a year before the surgery.

I'm so paranoid that my DD is going to inherit it. I keep staring at her side on to see (discretely). I've also asked my dentist about it, but he's farily rubbish generally and just says 'she's fine'.

abigaillockhart · 26/02/2008 13:47

I'm so sorry - as soon as I posted I realised that sounded awful.

Googled it (as told not to) and there was a picture of a troll - had just been reading a thread about trolls so thoughtlessly posted. My son has quite an extreme underbite but had never worried about it but now I am a little bit...

I really am sorry - I didn't mean to be horrible

abigaillockhart · 26/02/2008 13:48

Also only just spotted your .

Phew. Panicked I was going to be blacklisted.

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padboz · 26/02/2008 13:51

abi - yep I'm more worried than i was an hour ago now

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ComeOVeneer · 26/02/2008 13:54

Don't worry about it. I have only ever had to refer one patient to have surgery to correct it, all others have been treated sucessfully with a course of orthodontic work.

peppamum · 26/02/2008 13:57

COV - what was the diffeerence for the one that had to be referred for surgery? I'm interested becasue if my DD has inherited it I would prefer to sort it earlier rather than later by surgery. Looking at photos and from my memory, it didn't become apparent in me until my adult teeth came through - is this relevant to the treatment. My DD is 4 and at the moment it looks as though her back bottom teeth are forward, but not the front one.

Thanks

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padboz · 26/02/2008 14:01

oooh - you a doc? wow

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prettybird · 26/02/2008 14:06

My best friedn's wee girl wore a brace for a number of years to cure this. She is now 16/17 and beautiful

They did have to push for the orthodontic treatment though rather than just leaving it until later when "if it was bad" they would do the surgery.

She used to travle from North Wales to Great Ormond Street from memory - at least initally.

Best friend and husband are both GPs so they knew how to push!

ComeOVeneer · 26/02/2008 14:25

Not a doc, a dentist (hence the name ). The one I referred for surgery was because of the severity of the skeletal discrepancy in relation to upper and lower jaw, hence a brace wouldn't have done the trick.

prettybird · 26/02/2008 14:45

The way my friend desribed it (and I am sure CoV can describe it better) was that if you start early enough with the special braces, it enourages both the teeth and the espcially the tongue to be in places that encourage both parts of the jaw to form "correctly".

The problem with leaving it is that a sort of vicious circle can occur, where the tongue isn't in the right place and so the upper jaw is not enouraged to develop and the lower jaw sort of "over" develops - and it makes the possibility of a surgical intervention more likely. I had had firend at uni who had the surgery doen when she was 17/18.

I seem to remember when firend's dd got the brace (this would have been about 10 years ago) it wasn't that common an intervention, at least in orth Wales - hnece the Great Ormond Street referrasl. It maky be that it is now much more common to be treated with the braces. I think best frined saying it was frustrating, as in the long term the braces were a much cheaper solution - but they were being resisted as it was quite time intensive and initially epxepnsive, as the braces kept on having to be re-made to adapt to a grwoing mouth.

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padboz · 26/02/2008 15:38

thank you all very much. COV - I've just reread everything you said and feel a bit better. Sort of realising she is in for a bit of a time tho... never mind...

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abigaillockhart · 26/02/2008 15:55

My dentist told me they are now also much happier to put braces on around aged 7/8 rather than waiting until 10/11. That made me happier as I think that a seven year old (hopefully) won't be as self conscious.

colander · 26/02/2008 15:55

Both my DDs have this, but neither DH nor I. Hoping they won't need surgery. Dentist said that sometimes when the big teeth come through it sorts itself out.

DualCycloneCod · 26/02/2008 16:32

cov while your practice is open...

so ds2 has got a referral to get teh two milk teeht out
bUT its to an orthodonsit not the hospital

what do you think

ComeOVeneer · 26/02/2008 17:26

So your dentist has referred your ds to an orthodontist to have 2 teeth taken out? Usually it is the other way around. A dentist thinks a child may require orthodontic treatment so refers to an orthodontist. The orthodontist assesses the child and asks the general dentist to do any extractions needed then carries out the "brace work".

DualCycloneCod · 26/02/2008 17:46

ah mayeb that is what willhappen then
myuncle si an orhtodontist so may try and balg it cheap off him!

peppamum · 26/02/2008 19:54

Thanks for that and sorry for hijacking your thread Padboz

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padboz · 26/02/2008 20:21

hijack away peppa I got more than I could have hoped for with COV on hand

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