Having an orthodontic examination before age 7 is recommended. An orthodontist is a dentist that specialized in lining and fixing the teeth and had additional education about them. The best time for your child to get dental braces is determined by the dentist after oral examination.

As general information, fixed orthodontic treatment starts when the permanent teeth are completed, this period comes across the times after age 12. Meantime or before, preventive, protective or skeletal treatments can be done. In order to have skeletal treatments, being inside the developmental period is required. Thus early orthodontic controls are important in order to prevent malocclusion in early stage. When these conditions are on the table, the orthodontist can apply a two step treatment plan which’s first step is coordinating the skeletal system and second step is dental coordinating.

Orthodontic treatment can be done in every case where teeth and adjacent bone are solid. With the improving technology, there is no age limit for orthodontic treatment, it can be done in every age. But skeletal treatments requires to been in developmental period. If an individual completed his/her developmental period and needs a skeletal fixation, combined treatments with orthognathic surgery is possible.

Mini screws are placed in the bone in order to provide the instant bone anchorage especially for the orthodontic treatment. Appearance of the mini screws contributed to orthodontists’ mechanics about anchorage (support), since being helpful about less device appliances inside of the patients’ mouths, they make a big contribution to increasing the patients’ comforts.

 Mini screws are minimally invasive and safe. And they cause a dull ache or don’t cause at all. Before placement, the area is anesthetized. In first 24 hours after the anesthesia effect has passed, same patients might suffer from a dull pain. However this pain can be stopped with painkillers.

Even though mini screws are used for helping the treatings of the problems about teeth line, most commonly, they are used in order to fix the problems of collapsed bite, anterior open-bite and other biting problems. Besides, they are used as supports in order to fill a gap created by a missing tooth with shifting teeth to front and fixing the molar teeth with hardly moving teeth roots.

Yes they are and they can be removed by an orthodontist anytime without needing anesthesia.

Mini screws are applied to jaw bone in 5 minutes when the orthodontist approves, in the start of the examination, or in any steps of it. First of all, in order to anesthetize the gingival tissue and the area surrounding the screw’s place, a little bit of a local anesthetic usage is enough.

When the area got numb, your dentist places the mini screw to your jaw bone through your gingival tissue, gently and tightly. During this process, gingival cutting and stitching are not applied. Most of the time there is no bleeding. Mini screw is placed rapidly and the process is completed before you know it.