The time needed for adult orthodontic treatment is generally 2~3 years, but this cannot be generalized and is related to a number of factors such as the condition of the disease and the treatment method.
Orthodontics is a relatively common dental orthopedics, common traditional wire orthodontics, lingual orthodontics, self-ligating bracket orthodontics and invisible orthodontics, etc., generally can achieve good results.
However, the physical development of adults has been fixed, the bones will be more hard, correction will be more difficult, compared to children orthodontic need a longer time, usually need about 2 ~ 3 years to achieve better results.
The specific time needed is not certain, according to the individual degree of malocclusion to decide, if the malocclusion problem is more serious, the difficulty of correction will increase, so it will take longer; on the contrary, the time needed will be shorter.
Adults are recommended to go to the regular qualified hospital for orthodontic correction, the correction process must be carefully cooperate with the doctor, to do oral hygiene, regularly go to the hospital to adjust the braces, etc., the effect will be more ideal.