Is tooth extraction a good idea for orthodontic treatment?

The health and shape of teeth are very important to people's image, because teeth are the first thing people show when communicating with the outside world. Once there are various problems with the teeth, it is easy to cause dental deformities, making the teeth look very ugly. This situation requires orthodontic treatment. Let’s take a look at whether tooth extraction is a good way to correct teeth.

Data analysis shows that approximately 50% of orthodontic patients require tooth extraction. Many patients do not understand why teeth sometimes need to be extracted in order to correct their teeth, and it seems a pity to extract these healthy teeth. Often, hesitation about tooth extraction interferes with the selection of orthodontic appliances, which ultimately leads to less than ideal orthodontic results. This is very unfortunate.

Orthodontic treatment requires tooth extraction for the following purposes:

Use the space left by tooth extraction to align crowded teeth. Patients with crowding degree II-III are more likely to have tooth extraction.

Use the space left by tooth extraction to retract the front teeth, improve the protrusion of the dental arch, and improve the facial shape. For example, some people have protruding lips. After tooth extraction and correction, the protrusion of the lips will become smaller and the face shape will become more beautiful.

The extraction space is used to adjust the occlusal relationship of the posterior teeth so that the cusps of the posterior teeth are staggered, the occlusal contact area is maximized, and the best chewing efficiency is achieved.

How to determine whether tooth extraction is necessary during orthodontic treatment

Because orthodontic extraction is a necessary step to correct some malocclusions. Depending on the type and degree of malocclusion, some malocclusions do not require tooth extraction at all, while some malocclusions cannot be cured without tooth extraction. Orthodontic tooth extraction when necessary can achieve ideal tooth arrangement. Orthodontists prefer diseased teeth and teeth that have the least impact on chewing function. Extracting some teeth has little impact on chewing function. It promotes rather than hinders health. There is no significant difference in the impact on the health of the teeth between those who have their teeth extracted and those who do not. Orthodontic tooth extraction can be performed with almost zero pain under good surgical anesthesia. The gap after tooth extraction was finally closed completely with braces. When it comes to tooth extraction, it should be "Those that need to be extracted must be extracted, those that don't need to be extracted should not be extracted, and those that can be extracted or not should be resolved through negotiation" - "Tooth extraction should generally be symmetrical, if you extract the left, you should also extract the right, if you extract the top, you should also extract the bottom, and special cases should be treated specially."