How to treat big front teeth & what is the cost of the treatment? – Dr. Mohammed Fayaz Pasha

Whenever somebody comes and complaints that they have bigger teeth in the upper front area of the upper jaw, then we have to look into what exactly the problem with the teeth, and what has caused the increase in size of the teeth. In many people in their growing age, especially teenagers will complain of bigger teeth and the teeth are also placed forward. Most of the times we treat the cases naturally by orthodontic treatment by pushing the teeth slightly back and aligning them, into perfect arch, which will in turn make the teeth look little smaller once we push it in and once they grow into adults form teengers, as their facial growth will take place, this mismatch or this complaint of macrodontia will disappear over period of time. So this is about the teenagers and the youngsters who complain about it. Sometimes adults who have completed their growth, can complain about the macrodontia, that is the bigger teeth in the front area. Sometimes they can’t do a natural treatment or orthodontic treatment. So that time there is an option of reducing the size of the teeth and making the teeth look little smaller, like doing intentional root canal and placing crowns and if we have to reduce only a little amount of tooth structure, then we can think of veneers, then we can reduce the size of the teeth. So macrodontia can be easily managed and most of the people when patient compliant s about macrodontia, we make a model of their mouth and we do something called as mock up that is the final result that we want to achieve. That we want to do it on the models and show it to the patients. Nowadays lot of softwares are available where virtually we can design the tooth size and we can show it to the patients, and virtually we can design the tooth size and show it to the patient and they can help us know exactly what we want. Coming to the cost of the treatment, it can be specially told as it involves how many teeth are involved and what kind of treatment we select and whether we are doing orthodontic treatment or root canal treatment or cosmetic treatment and what are the materials and what is the expertise. So costing is always custom made. In a developing country like India, the costing is more economical compared to lot of western countries. So macrodontia can be treated in our country with economic costing.