I'm wondering if the placement of my brackets are weird The brackets on my lower front teeth are all in different heights.. and my teeth looks weirder than before. If they are indeed misplaced, how should i confront my dentist about it?

Answer 1

Imagine you have a bunch of sticks in the sand. You want them to all be straight, and you plan to accomplish this by gluing a string to each stick and then pulling the string taut. If you glue the string to the same spot on each stick and then pull it, nothing will move. Instead, you have to glue the string to each stick based on where you want the stick to be after the string has been pulled taut.

It's a simplified example, but it's essentially the same process that braces are used, just in a smaller time scale. The brackets are where they are because the wire is pulling them (slowly) from where they are now into alignment with the other brackets, so if your brackets appear misaligned now that does not necessarily mean that they are.

Answer 2

The teeth may shaved down to equal lengths. Happens a lot. Crowns , implants, natural teeth are ground down to make the smile as even as possible as long as the jaw shape allows for this. You don’t want too short teeth, unless, of course this looks natural or this is the only way to even the teeth out without replacing with implants or crowns. Get a free consultation!