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We refer to a number of orthodontists who are affiliated with the practice. This will depend on your individual orthodontic needs.
Listed below are a number of questions Neville is regularly asked regarding orthodontic procedures. Please click on any of the questions to obtain the answer.
What is Orthodontics?
What is Dento-Facial Orthopaedics?
Specialist Orthodontics, what can we expect?
When do we start?
Can adults also benefit?
What is Orthodontics?
Orthodontics is a specialised area of dentistry which diagnoses and treats irregularities of the teeth and jaws.
Treatment is conducted over a period of time using appliances attached to the teeth, guiding them into new positions with gentle pressure.
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What is Dento-Facial Orthopaedics?
This involves modifying jaw growth to improve the structural disharmony which often underlies the development of a malocclusion (irregular teeth).
In the growing child, orthopaedics allows harmony to be restored to the unbalanced face and the most attractive smile developed.
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Specialist Orthodontics, what can we expect?
Orthodontics has been one of the fastest moving specialties in recent years and the many new developments now allow results to be achieved more rapidly and closer to ideal aesthetics, function and health than ever before.
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When do we start?
We encourage the referral of children at the age of 6 - 8 years, so that any growth disharmony and abnormal development can be picked up early and treatment planned for the optimal time.
Treatment is often best started around 9 years, sometimes even earlier, to allow maximum facial change and shorter treatment times.
Early treatment, when appropriate, can usually be carried out an age when there are less schooling and social demands on the child, often making this an ideal time to be involved.
Dental irregularities in the teenage patient may still be treated with maximum efficiency to produce optimal results.
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Can adults also benefit?
Although the ideal time to have orthodontics is whilst the patient is still growing, age need not be a barrier. Adults who missed the opportunity to have orthodontic treatment during childhood, or who have more recently developed problems, are now able to benefit from the improvements in technique and aesthetic materials, making orthodontic care acceptable whatever the age.
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Neville Bass
Neville Bass has been in private Orthodontic practice for more than 20 years and is a member of the post-graduate teaching staff of the Royal London Dental Hospital. He lectures and teaches widely throughout Europe, the United States and Australasia and his background includes a synthesis of the best of European and North American techniques.
Consultant to the prestigious American Journal of Orthodontics and Dento-Facial Orthopaedics and formerly consultant to the United States Air Force.
He is recognised as an eminent clinician, making many significant contributions to the International Orthodontic literature. President of the British Orthodontic Society for the Year 2000.
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