On Apr 29, 2008, at 12:38 PM, [email protected] wrote:
My daughter is on the antibiotics and is having less pain. She is scheduled for a consult next week then extraction Realizing that teeth are connected to energy meridians and health of other organs I am wondering how do you know when to remove healthy teeth and when not to. My sons need orthodontics and are told to remove 4 wisdoms and 4 others all of which are healthy. If that weakens the energy meridians it would be a mistake and not reversable once done. In my daughter's case I'm told if ones removed the top one is too. When is of benefit to the body and when is it not to remove healthy teeth?
Maybe someone else who has been through the extractions in conjunction with orthodontics can speak to that, but my brother and sister both had the 4 extractions/ortho and what the orthodontists do in theory is create nice spaces to move the crowded teeth into with the braces. What they don't tell you is that bones and teeth are always in motion depending on various forces in the mouth, available minerals, etc. So after the orthodontics are through and the braces are off the forces that made the teeth crowded before may still be in operation, and the jawbone WILL shrink to accommodate the fewer teeth present. Unless retainers continue to be worn for a very long time the teeth can and will go crooked again. It happened to my siblings. I decided not to continue the serial extractions for my son and found an ortho that would do it without. His teeth are still OK. You have to consider the severity of the problem, you may be under a contract already, they require payment in advance and won't refund (ever had your teeth sanded by a hopping mad ortho?), been there done that.
I chickened out on an ortho for myself who wanted to extract teeth and lost money, then went with a dentist, not a full-fledged ortho, who did removable appliances to stretch the dental arch over time. It was painful and after my bottom 4 front incisors were straight I have had to wear retainers to keep them that way, and now have a wire across behind the lower front teeth. I feel like it is responsible for pushing my teeth forward enough that the gums are receding because of the forward pressure. The expander also seemed to cause my teeth to lean somewhat so the higher side got ground down. Uneven bite on the back molars weakened by a dentist who hollowed them all out when I was 12 caused 3 out of 4 to crack or break, so now they are crowns. Quite a price to pay for straight teeth. It seems a catch-22..... I wish the undecayed side-wise wisdom teeth I had extracted from under my gums could have been left and the hollowed out molars extracted instead. I don't know if it would have worked but those back molars are the 6 year molars that are most likely to decay.
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