The purpose of it all

Well some people criticize adults with braces as if one were to do it for fun. Let me tell you there is no fun to it. Also, those people either never wore them or never think there is a FUNCTIONAL purpose to all of that. In my case I view it this way:

Visual or Physical and Improvements:

• Eliminate the growing gap between the two frontal teeth on the upper jaw. Requires fraenum surgery (see earlier post).
  
• Terminate the movement of the frontal teeth towards outside and the sides which has been causing a lot of tear and wear. Requires the installation of braces and tooth restoration with resin.
  
• Align the 5th tooth on the left side of the lower jaw which was nearly 40% pushed towards the inside (the tongue) by its two neighbours. Done by the braces.
  
• Push the front teeth back and straighten them in general. This was getting worse over the years.
• Fix the lower jaw which did not grow enough. Requires orthognathic surgery :(
  

Health Improvements:

• Put an end to the nearly extreme wearing off of all the teeth. In particular the upper/lower frontal teeth were so worn out that it was reaching the core and losing shape. These need to be restored to their original grace.
• Improve speech, the position of the upper two was so far out that it hinders the pronunciation of sounds that require the tongue to establish contact with the front teeth
• Eliminate the problem with the jaw joints making cracking noises when moving (TMJ).
• Eliminate over stressing neck and jaw muscles

Other improvements:

• To finally gain confidence for smiling normally and without shame, what else?! I have not done that for as long as I can remember.