Teeth have there own holes in our jaw that keep them in place, so how the fuck do teeth move when you wear braces or invisiline? Do the holes move with the teeth? Our jaws are bone, how does it allow the teeth to move without creating a bigger hole or just making the teeth sideways? Im really confused.
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The hole is ‘stretched’ by the continued application of force, and then the gaps are slowly filled in by new bone as it heals. This is part of why you have a retainer to wear even after the correction is done with and it must be worn a lot more at first.
Another thing, how do teeth get pushed out of the gum, or am I wrong and they just grow out of it
As best as my orthodontist explained it to me when I was like 10…. the teeth are connected to the jaw bone they sit in by lots of actually very tiny “wires”. Braces use continued application of force to break those wires. When the wires break, your body makes new ones to properly anchor the teeth. But again… this was my understanding of something when I was 10. So… may be wrong.
Bone is a living tissue and contains cells that are constantly breaking it down and rebuilding it. The cells that reshape your bone work in response to long term force/stressors on the bone, so applying a gentle force in the same direction for a long time (like with braces) eventually causes reshaping of the bone tissue in that general direction.
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