It is no easy task ever being at the receiving end of a joke or a prank just because you were born with something you were of no control of. It is absolutely of a different stage than when you get heckled by something you had done mistakenly and with no intent.
Bullies in all flavors do not exist in school only, they could be your colleagues, or not-so-close friend, or even your relations. They taunt you of something they do not have that makes you of such deformity as abnormal.
Malocclusion. This is a term that is actually the negative word for occlusion which is the term applied to the proper and natural alignment of teeth. If your teeth are not in the suitable order of things, then you may have malocclusion, in one of its forms.
Malocclusion may not be serious enough to merit such immediate and concerted effort for alleviation. It is, however, a stigma onto yourself if there is inaction on your part to rectify this physical and visual discomfort.
Buck tooth, your heckled name or not, is one of the conditions under this general term of teeth misalignment. Imagine how much air would pfffwwhhfffthh through the space in between. If that is fine with you then live on with it, you are a brave man; if not, however, listen.
The brave ones will listen and will come to realize they are really not that brave after all. The really brave ones – the true braves – are far more notches higher and they tend to face more than just misaligned teeth. And they have misaligned teeth. That is the truth.
Following are conditions generally recorded as malocclusion but, if by chance, you are misaligned and find yourself not in any one of these conditions, well, you are lucky, then contact us and we will see.
Crowded Teeth. You saw it once or twice in your friends in high school, college or work that had an extra tooth or finger in protrusion. You take no favored attention to it, but you stumble upon an article of humanoid giants with double rows of teeth with six fingers.
That is absurd, you say, but the article is there. Extra row of teeth and an extra finger at each hand. Your friend or classmate may just be a link to the past. Would he not be?
Crossbite. This needs to be specific because a few more dental abnormalities follow which does not necessarily mean the bearer is not normal. This, in particular, is when the upper set of teeth sits behind the lower set of teeth at rest.
Ahh, uhhm. There must be something that dentists can do to make this as it normally should be; there is but you would have to confer with the dental professional with that. This article is not about any procedural matter but that is a good start. Keep it up.
Overbite. Most people, no numbers here, suffer from a range of overbite just like Freddie Mercury of the Queen. Rejoice ye all! Ye now sing with glee!
This, actually, is a lot more popular form of teeth deformity because this is, in really severe cases, where the buck tooth name would come in. Those with the severest form would have to take dental reformations and take, as a means of curtailment of teeth movement, Invisalign Braces.
These Invisalign Braces are the more scientific and adaptably reliable products in the market today.
Underbite. Bulldog, that is what you are described by professionals, if you have this dental condition that is. It is somehow the opposite of the preceding condition, overbite. You are snuck in, however, and, just like all of these conditions, will be visually seen.
Unfortunately, with all these conditions, a common denominator – not necessarily in all, but almost all – is thumb sucking. If you did this when you were young, you are then a dental miscreant; don’t let your descendants tread the same path.
Open bite. This is a dental condition when both front and lower part of both upper and lower teeth do not and will never touch. There will always ever be a gap at the front where the enemy can come in with the gates closed but open.
This, I think, is a condition where you do not hold a microphone to sing; just a precaution, mind you.
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