Edit: Did not expect this to get so many responses. I’m currently several months into Invisalign so have been super fascinated by teeth stuff and was just curious if there was a surgical way to do it, even if it meant way more money, time, and risk. Thank you to everyone who answered!
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There is a lot of misinformation floating around in the comments. Teeth can’t be moved by pulling them and drilling new holes. It would cause tons of issues (killing the tooth) and the success rate of re-implantation would not be good. I’m not saying it’s impossible. It’s just super stupid.
The small blood vessels and nerve would break at the tip of the tooth root as it came out. When u re-implanted it — the tooth would become necrotic (dead on the inside). It would need a root canal. And then it would not be likely to survive long in its new location.
The way rapid tooth movement is accomplished is by surgically removing bone between the teeth and then attaching braces. It makes the orthodontic treatment go really really fast. We accomplish the bone removal safely because we can design 3D printed surgical guides rendered from a CT scan that allow us to drill into the bone without damaging the teeth.
Also… if you have total jaw realignment surgery, the teeth usually have to be lined up orthodontically before the surgery. The jaw realignment doesn’t fix crooked teeth. It just moves the upper and/or lower jaws forward or backwards.
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