it makes a huge difference. extractions ruined our f**king bites/mouths/appearances. The last few nights I've been out I can spot extraction cases. I was at a bar talking to various girls and I was like, you had your four bicuspid teeth extracted, right? And all the people I asked said yes and didn't know there was anything wrong. I can tell because while their teeth looked straight their arches looked very small and their mouths were recessed slightly. Once you can recognize it you see it all over the place and you can just tell the people would have looked so much better if they had had SARPE or rapid palatal expansion to grow their jaws and fit all their teeth. I would have it reversed but i don't want implants (i.e. fake teeth screwed into my mouth). If in the future they ever develop the science to genetically engineer or grow teeth I'll get distraction and have new teeth implanted. i feel like i've been permanently disfigured.
i had them as an adult, but i think they're bad at any age. they should grow the jaw.
not sure how extractions as an adult would affect growth...obviously complicate jaw surgery though.
doesn't affect growth but the jaw shrinks and upper tooth extraction would cause loss of mid-face structural supportit definitely seems to complicate jaw surgerythis guy had the usual 4 bicuspid extraction (when he was younger apparently) and he needed SARPE + bi-max to correct all the mess it created
I had extractions when I was about 20 but untill then I lived with blocked out upper canines so I must have had pretty bad crowding. Would my growth have been as bad as someone who had the extractions when they were a kid and had relatively straight teeth from braces?
how many extrractions did you have?