Why can’t they just surgically uproot your teeth and glue them back in the correct places? I get that there are rubber band like ligaments, but why can’t they take them out and bend them the right way and put them back (or something)?
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Edit: you can’t edit post titles for some reason, so: Why ~~isn’t~~ aren’t there faster alternatives to braces?
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I think the answer is going to be that you could, but it wouldn’t stay.
You have to get retainers after braces because your body will try and realign the teeth to how they were, and unless you force them to stay, they’ll end up as bad as if you’d never had braces.
You could surgically arrange them, but it would be insanely painful to keep the retainer on, and you’d have to wear it for the rest of your life, rather than just for a couple years after having had braces.
Poorly explained, but maybe it gets the idea across.
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