How to distinguish between bony and dental causes of protruding mouth

Protruding mouth is a common facial defect in many people, which has a great impact on personal image. If the problem of protruding mouth can be solved, the personal appearance can be greatly improved. Therefore, if you have a protruding mouth, you should seek treatment immediately. To treat a protruding mouth, you need to first determine whether it is a bony protrusion or a dental protrusion. How to distinguish between skeletal and dental causes of protruding mouth? Here we will introduce to you the specific methods of distinction.

1. Protruding teeth: This is caused by the teeth tilting too far forward. This type of protruding teeth can be corrected ideally with braces, and orthodontists highly recommend and approve it.

2. Bony protrusion and buck teeth: Protrusion is caused by overdevelopment of the maxillary bone or retraction of the mandibular bone. In such cases, braces are not effective and it is recommended not to do so. Orthodontic surgery is required.

3. Mixed protrusive teeth: It has some dental factors and some bone factors. This type of patients can also wear braces, but the effect is compromised. Braces improve the dental part but have no effect on bone factors.

Bony protrusions are mainly caused by bony protrusions. Most of the time, surgery is required for plastic surgery, and it can be corrected after orthodontic treatment.

Buck teeth are the most common type of dentofacial deformity among the Oriental race. In medical terms, it is actually maxillary protrusion or bimaxillary protrusion, which greatly affects the appearance.

Patients with buck teeth often have open lips and exposed teeth. Their lips cannot close naturally, and their gums are too exposed when they smile. They are often accompanied by a retracted chin. When they are forced to close their mouths, there is an obvious soft tissue bulge between the lower lip and the chin. The upper and lower front teeth in the mouth are lip-tilted, often accompanied by crowding and unevenness, and the front teeth have deep overbite and deep overjet.

Skeletal protrusion is a common clinical symptom of malocclusion. Traditional orthodontics can only change the problem of malocclusion. If it is used for problems such as skeletal protrusions and other alveolar bone deformities, there will be a rebound phenomenon. Due to its sophisticated technology, orthodontics has overcome the problem that adults with bone deformities cannot be corrected using braces or traditional orthodontic techniques. It fundamentally solves skeletal tooth deformities and is the most authoritative orthodontic technology for adults.

Principle of surgery

Surgical orthodontic treatment of skeletal protrusion can utilize surgical methods to open the alveolar bone to directly adjust the relationship between the teeth and the jaw, restore the normal occlusion of the front teeth, and at the same time change the symptoms of protrusion of the entire mouth and improve the patient's appearance.

Surgical Procedure

In addition to the general physical preparation required for orthodontic surgery, such as being free of blood diseases, infectious diseases, heart diseases, etc., it is also required that the patient be free of gingivitis, radiculitis, periodontitis, etc. in order to ensure recovery from the surgery. The effect can be seen immediately after the operation and it does not affect speech.