At this stage, the patient presents all permanent teeth but a certain growth potential is still present.
These characteristics influence on the type of appliances to be used, and on the approach to the treatment to be carried out, mainly with fixed appliances.
Favorable characteristics of the jaws at this age allow us to carry out treatments which allow us to achieve excellent results in a simple way.
It is never too late to undergo an orthodontic treatment. Each time more and more adult patients request orthodontic treatments and we can offer them esthetic brackets or invisible orthodontics with lingual brackets or even without brackets.
Adult patients frequently need treatments which require the intervention of other specialties, and they are called interdisciplinary treatments.