Give up bad habits that affect the alignment of your teeth. Many teenagers wear braces because they sucked their thumb as a child. That said, many trivial actions cause unnecessary pressure on the teeth. For example, drinking a drink through a straw, biting the end of a pencil, or creating bubbles with gum are small habits that have the same effect on your teeth as thumb sucking. Get rid of them or adapt them so they don’t affect your teeth [3] . Ideally, just chewing the food should attract them.
If you can’t kick the habit, put the straw (or other object) in your mouth so it doesn’t rest on your teeth.
Fills the spaces of missing teeth. It is normal for baby teeth to fall out to make room for permanent teeth. However, an adult may have incomplete or damaged teeth. This may be due to the extraction of one or more teeth, an abnormality such as dental agenesis (absence of teeth at birth), or an accident. The vacant space left by the missing tooth is gradually filled with neighboring teeth, creating new spaces. To replace lost teeth, orthodontics must be used by installing an implant, a crown or a bridge.
If you are missing teeth, the others tend to naturally move into the empty spaces. This is a process called mesialization
