After the setback of Smile Outlet declining my challenging bite case, entering Proud Smile at Pacific Fair brought real optimism. Following Dr. Roben Bebawy's positive referral in the previous video, I met with their specialist for tough cases, Dr. Erwin Vasconcelos, for my initial evaluation. This session focused on the essential analysis, not the complete plan.
With a precise 3D scan, Dr. Erwin expertly identified my primary concern: limited jaw expansion, central to resolving my misalignment. He sketched a forward-looking approach centered on Invisalign, with possible expanders in the future as needed. The standout part? He's developing a personalized roadmap, and I'll receive the complete details at my upcoming appointment. It's an enormous comfort to discover a clinic that's inclusive and skilled for this demanding process.
Dr. Erwin's focus on exceptional treatment draws from his 2001 degree from a leading Brazilian dental university and his expertise in cosmetics and implants. His straightforward explanation of my situation instilled immediate assurance—Proud Smile is the ideal place for tackling malocclusion. If you're dealing with intricate dental challenges, follow to see the full treatment reveal in the next upload. What's the key attribute you value most in a dentist? Let me know in the comments.
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With a precise 3D scan, Dr. Erwin expertly identified my primary concern: limited jaw expansion, central to resolving my misalignment. He sketched a forward-looking approach centered on Invisalign, with possible expanders in the future as needed. The standout part? He's developing a personalized roadmap, and I'll receive the complete details at my upcoming appointment. It's an enormous comfort to discover a clinic that's inclusive and skilled for this demanding process.
Dr. Erwin's focus on exceptional treatment draws from his 2001 degree from a leading Brazilian dental university and his expertise in cosmetics and implants. His straightforward explanation of my situation instilled immediate assurance—Proud Smile is the ideal place for tackling malocclusion. If you're dealing with intricate dental challenges, follow to see the full treatment reveal in the next upload. What's the key attribute you value most in a dentist? Let me know in the comments.
#MalocclusionStory #InvisalignPath #DentalAssessment #ProudSmilePacificFair #BiteCorrection #OrthoJourney #DrErwinVasconcelos
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00:00top three benefits of getting your malocclusion fixed number one better oral health you're going
00:08to be able to clean your teeth better more effectively so that's going to lead to less
00:13plaque build-up and hopefully less decay two improved function so having an aligned jaw is
00:19going to have positive benefits both for your speech as well as your ability to chew food
00:25and it's the chewing food one that i'm really interested in because that's obviously got
00:29health benefits digestion starts in your mouth so the better you chew your food the more you're
00:34going to be able to absorb those micronutrients three prevent tooth damage so this is one of those
00:40long-term benefits that you're going to get it's going to help prevent uneven tear wear and tear
00:45on your teeth and i've definitely got that like i've got my my back teeth are flat as anything
00:51and my front teeth are hardly worn down at all and it's hopefully also going to prevent cracked teeth
00:56down the down the track so i'm very excited today to be going into proud smiles to see dr erwin
01:03and i'm hoping that at the end of this appointment he's going to leave me with the promise of an email
01:08plan which is what they do they see you then they email your plan i think and from there you'll be
01:13able to go through all the steps to getting your malocclusion fixed
01:17okay so here i am at proud smile at hope island
01:25i think it's the marketplace shopping center here so i'm very excited to be going
01:52all right well i've already filled out forms i think at the pacific fair so it's all good
02:04thank you so very much
02:06so because i've already been to the um proud smile clinic in pacific fair i don't have to
02:18refill out all their forms but um for people that are following this dental blog you'll remember
02:23i was very impressed at pacific fair because on the form they ask you what tv show is your preferred
02:29or what netflix show is your preferred show so i imagine it's probably the same here
02:34i'm very welcome thank you thank you so much
02:38and you can sit in those moments oh excellent thank you
02:48so tell me what is it that you want you to achieve
02:55i am really into health these days because um i mean appearance is great you know obviously but
03:02i'm really into health and wellness and it's the chewing that's an issue for me and even when
03:09you're trying to chew the the greens and the um vegetable type things you know the insoluble fiber
03:14that you want to chew properly you know like a cow and i can't chew those all that well
03:19and i don't have pain it's just that i've got these i chew on the back and it's very flattened
03:27and in fact just this morning i bit my tongue yet again so i'm biting my tongue a bit um a little
03:34bit on the inside of my cheek and so yeah just just to be able to chew better and also to hopefully
03:40protect my teeth a little bit from you know i mean i probably might grind anyway but i think
03:46if they're aligned a bit better the load is better a little bit better yes i crack teeth and all that
03:52at the moment do you have you ever had any treatment before um not not for tea slating and
03:58like every issue it seems to only exacerbate the more birthdays you have because this did not look
04:06like this 10 years ago it didn't it really didn't all right and then from my understanding you
04:13haven't been ready to another clinic yes and you've been told that i've had a bit of a journey
04:18yeah and i was told that um i did go to smile outlet um because yeah i was hoping that i would be able
04:25to sort of be a little bit budget friendlier than the first place i wanted to and but after
04:29they only do mild to moderate all right so okay so i think i will do it with a little bit and see
04:36okay obviously you are helping friends train tracks train tracks well look whatever i'll go
04:47do you think i'll do it with a little bit more recommendation okay like it's fine
04:50okay that's just how comfortable and a nice smoothies chair
04:54yeah
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05:54um
05:55i can see
05:57your case is a very very much a case of expansion
06:01your arches are very narrow
06:04and so that narrowness is actually was probably causing you to bite in the tongue and other sort
06:10sort of thing so it's almost if you have no space in your lower jaw for even if your tongue is sick
06:17yeah it has no logic so yeah because it gets in the bio
06:20it gets in the bio yeah so i actually think that for you we need to do a really good extension
06:25extension so extension so extension means moving your back tip outwards to give you like a broader jaw
06:32yeah that would then give you better breathing the bite is better there's more room for your tongue
06:38and it will look better as well because it gives you like a wider smile and then by doing this extension we then have the space to straighten your teeth because at the moment there are a lot of the reason why you front tip the crowd is because your lower tip has to push them sort of forward and then there's no space for them
06:54there's no space for them so um but funny enough your case is actually not terribly functional like your canine is actually where it's supposed to be
07:04we usually classify by some three classes class one class three class three i don't know if you've been told that before
07:11class one is considered normal
07:13yep
07:14and that means that your canine is where it's supposed to be compared to your topology as well
07:20and then class two and class three are outside normal so you in terms of the position you take you actually are in a normal class
07:28oh right
07:30so for you you've got a bit of a cross bite on the right side but it's only one three um and then and then on the other side it's pretty much where it's supposed to be
07:39so your case is really your jaws haven't quite grown enough and wide enough for your to fit all your teeth
07:47so everything has been pushed forward um because of that
07:51and did that happen already in utero or did that help
07:55i think if it usually comes in from childhood um obviously it gets worse as we grow older as with everything has grown
08:03yeah um so yes it may have grown worse but i i i don't know because i haven't seen you in your childhood years but i would think that this is there for quite a while
08:13it's been there for quite a while and it's probably becoming more noticeable to you now because of the um
08:19fighting tongue or you know and also against you getting warm which which happens in time as well
08:27it escalated after i got three molars fixed at the back so i got three done at once
08:33yeah and it was after that repair work okay that things all of a sudden will change yeah yeah things can cause imbalances in the jaw as well
08:45um so so i think the case can be done with the line um it will be a little bit difficult with the extension
08:53because the line as you can imagine it's just like a plastic thing so the plastic will have to cause that extension
09:01but then the plastic itself has flexibility so it tends to go back as well so the more you push out it
09:07it tends to to deform and bend um so we may get some um challenges in trying to get this expansion but
09:15i definitely think we'll get some extension you may not be able to get as much as we would like but it will be enough i
09:23think for you to feel better in your mouth there is another option which is using extenders um
09:31so expanders like a little plastic but on the roof of your mouth um and then it's like a plastic thing on both sides
09:37that then causes you to move a bit better than you'd like because it's a rigid plastic instead of a flexible one
09:45um that would give you better results in terms of expansion but it's a bit harder to wear it
09:51because it's like a bit more bulky in your mouth and it sounds a bit yeah
09:57yeah i might have i'm not sure if i have one to show it
10:03uh the so the invisalign itself is just those ones yeah and and you can see how it's got some flexibility to it
10:09it's got some flexibility to it so even if we try oops even if we try to expand your top teeth like this
10:17because this is what we want to do we want to move your teeth this way okay
10:21yeah the plastic can do that but then because it's soft it doesn't always go there whereas the
10:27expansion i don't think i have one to show basically it's connected all the way between
10:33one side to the other and then so if you've got something here in the middle then that you can get
10:40a better extension but it's a little bit more uncomfortable the only the good thing though is
10:45it's not for a long time like you can probably return to an extension plate for let's say maybe three to six
10:52months cause that extension first and then once we've got the expansion we then come in with
10:57the aligner just to do some final um alignment so so we're probably looking like let's say six months
11:05of expansion and then probably another maybe six of this um and then you're good otherwise we can go
11:12straight to invisalign without the extension um which would probably be a probably about a nine month job
11:21maybe and then see how much extension you can achieve with this only but knowing that we may
11:26have a little bit of limitations there i mean it sounds sensible i have had other digital professionals
11:34like this they'll talk about things as soon as you started talking about it yeah i thought oh yeah
11:40it's probably what what it is yeah to be honest with you talking about extension in terms of the health
11:45side of things yeah is the you tend to breathe better as well my breathing yeah i don't know if
11:51that's an issue no no well yeah i mean it can sometimes be like especially if i'm anxious and
11:57behind things like yeah yeah my knowledge tends to it it does it have an effect on my brain well
12:03sometimes it could be the other way around if you have a blocked nose then you can have issues in the
12:07mouth with breathing and then you tend to become a brown mouth breather which is no idea because
12:12i give you in your life you want to be breathing through the nose so do you have any issues with
12:17your mouth no but can can expansion help with the nose for you no it won't help with your nose it will
12:24help with space in the mouth for your tongue to make you kind of sit in a better place because like
12:31snoring for example i don't know if that's something you have but snoring is usually the tongue so the
12:37ceiling will be chewed back so sometimes when you move your jaw or the jaw forward like this you tend
12:44to breathe better so the mouth has a very direct link to breathing oh interesting so then it can be
12:54down there as well like i said so if you have issues with the nose that can also affect the mouth and
12:59then but then that can be addressed with any any ant especially but if it's not your case then you
13:08don't need to do it i think it's all right so what about braces for the expansion yeah braces is also one
13:15way to do it but braces also do have limitations um yeah because in your case if you were to embrace it
13:22we also have to cause this extension with the wire only but the wire also has flexibility so the
13:29wire will try to go back so for expansion to be to be successful we need something that actually
13:37has an anchor on the roof of your mouth to then cause the expansion so the only two things we have at
13:44the moment is a metal extension plate which actually gets bonded on your teeth and then there's like a
13:51hook that you turn so it does look like it's something like from a down a bit from the past but
13:58it's still available and then and then lately we've got these new ones made of plastic yeah that actually
14:04causes the extension as well so by having an anchor point on the roof of your mouth we then get a lot
14:09more stability to cause the extension but when you depend on something that only goes on your teeth
14:16whether it's this or wire we have meditations but we do we do achieve a very good amount so
14:23it could be that the amount of this extension we're going to achieve with this for example would maybe not
14:29be well look i might to be honest because at the moment it's a little bit of an intense time with my
14:34toddler and yeah he's still not sleeping through and so it's it's i wonder if it would be a good idea to
14:42start with those jet model that you're going to say one thousand yeah i was actually i was actually
14:46going to suggest that so this is what we do the most by the way yeah start with the misalign yeah see
14:50how much extension we get the good thing about a misalign is it's very flexible so let's say we
14:56finish the first round of it and you're like oh i want maybe i should try the extension plate you can
15:02actually go back on it so you go back on it and then do that and then come back here again so
15:07we can pretty much do whatever we want with the treatment once you lock into a package of
15:13the visalign it comes with unlimited revisions so like with the comprehensive package and the
15:21sorry the module and the comprehensive you get unlimited revisions so that means we can pretty
15:26much keep treating you for a period of i think it's two years the module and five years for um
15:32complexes and then like i said if we really find that we're getting it stuck uh with extension
15:39then okay maybe let's revisit the extension plate which can be done at any time yeah so that's a good
15:47good way to do it because it could be that you're going to have good results with this alone yeah and then
15:51you know how to go through the extension plate so that i'm so happy i think i'm here and get this
15:56done cool so the way we find out which level you're going to be is by doing a scan and you've probably
16:03had one before it's like a 3d i've had lots of scans so um the scans that were sent here you can't use
16:11yeah each account has and to be honest it's like two minutes so it's easier to just do a new one
16:17oh so it's the 3d scan the 3d scan is the when you want to take a photo of your mouth yeah and it's
16:23not too much reaction no this is zero yeah good yeah the other one is called uh cbct that's an
16:29actual action x-ray okay that one i'm guessing you had done as well oh yes i i do that one we can use
16:37from another practice but the one here is just like a photo yeah so if you like i can do that now
16:45there's no um cost for an assessment so i can run the assessment and get that to you okay so this is
16:51how long it's going to take um how many aligners how the cost um ethanol all that so i'm here i'm
17:00already solved because i have yes i would love thank you so much so you do the scan now and then um and
17:08then once i've got the email then the first step is what coming back and seeing yeah it's me so i
17:14i usually like to see you i feel in person but if you can kind of email you as well um but in person
17:20i'll be able to use it on the computer yeah and then from there you can ask more questions if you
17:26want um and then yeah pretty much proceed on that oh and at that coming back if you see you'll have
17:32something already to inform you if i trip the plan or is this no that is just discuss treatment and then
17:37get acceptance of treatment okay once you can accept treatment okay yes about it's about 10 days to get
17:43them and that's when you can start wearing them okay yeah so do you know a little bit about like you
17:48have to wear it all the time day night how do you clean your teeth you brush them um you can actually
17:55brush your tray and your teeth yeah you only remove them to brush and eat yeah oh you remove them to eat
18:00and then so you remove them to eat you remove them to brush your teeth and you remove them to drink very
18:07hot drinks okay at all other times it has to be in your mouth so because that's the way it works
18:13it is a sequence of alignments so each week you're going to go on with this one um so like let's say
18:19your case it's 40 alignments so it's going to be 40 things of these yeah for 40 weeks and they get
18:25tighter and tired i mean sorry they get each week there's like a small incremental force yeah and
18:31that's what they're called and do i come into the dental practice or do they get sent no you well i
18:37give it i usually give you enough for like probably six weeks at a time oh great okay and so you do
18:41that yourself come back and see me i then check if everything is moving okay okay then i give you
18:47another six and then that's how it goes oh perfect that doesn't sound too traumatic yeah okay all right
18:54all right so let's do the scan yes thank you
19:10all right
19:24so
20:54Do you recognize that?
20:56I do.
20:58You put an open back to the front as well.
21:03That can sometimes be a bit of a tongue habit as well, or putting your tongue at the front.
21:12All right.
21:13Okay.
21:14By doing that, sometimes you push the teeth.
21:19Okay.
21:20And you definitely have some wear on your tongue.
21:22Yeah.
21:23Yeah.
21:24And you definitely have some wear on your tongue.
21:26Yeah.
21:27That's why I flash those back to you.
21:29Yeah.
21:30Cool.
21:31All right.
21:32So now I'm going to take some photos of this picture.
21:39You take me with the glasses.
21:42Oh, yeah?
21:43Thank you very much.
21:44Oh, now we walked out before.
21:46Dental practice with the sunny storm, you know.
21:49Yeah.
21:50Yeah.
21:51I have a lot.
21:52It's easy to do.
21:53Oh, that's great.
21:54Not because I'm happy to come here.
21:56Yeah.
21:57I'm really relieved from that.
21:58I do operate from all three clinics.
22:00Yes.
22:01Yes.
22:02Serpents.
22:03Serpents paradise.
22:04Yeah.
22:05So you can see me on any of them.
22:08I will.
22:09Probably come to pack for it.
22:10Or bundle.
22:11I think I'll try.
22:12Bundle.
22:13Because that's just across.
22:14Yeah.
22:15Yeah.
22:16The first one, the smile.
22:17The biggest possible.
22:18Nice.
22:19Yep.
22:20That's it.
22:21And then the other one.
22:22And now we're going to do no smile.
22:24Just with your lip seal.
22:25And then finally, I'll get you to stand looking that way.
22:30Okay.
22:31All right.
22:32That's it.
22:33So I've got everything I need.
22:34Okay.
22:35I will then just need now the x-ray.
22:37Ah.
22:38So.
22:39One x.
22:40I know one x-ray was emailed in.
22:41Oh, okay.
22:42I thought it was.
22:43I'll have a look then.
22:44To the Pacific one.
22:45To the Pacific one.
22:46Okay.
22:47Yeah.
22:48Yeah.
22:49So as long as.
22:50From small outlets.
22:51From small outlets.
22:52Yeah.
22:53And I think it was that machine that.
22:54The machine that's been around your face.
22:55Yeah.
22:56Okay.
22:57So I will work then on a.
22:58On a.
22:59On a.
23:00On a.
23:013G thing.
23:02And then maybe you can see me at.
23:03Pack Fair.
23:04Or bundle.
23:05To discuss.
23:06Yeah.
23:07Yeah.
23:08What days do you work there?
23:09Pack Fair.
23:10I'm usually there Tuesdays.
23:11And some Saturdays.
23:12Yep.
23:13Bundle.
23:14Usually Thursdays.
23:15Some Tuesdays.
23:16Depends.
23:17Yeah.
23:18We'll have a look.
23:19We'll work it out.
23:20Yeah.
23:21Oh, perfect.
23:22Nice to meet you.
23:23Lovely to meet you too.
23:24Thank you so very much.
23:25Thank you for your time.
23:26It was lovely to meet you.
23:27Nice to meet you as well.
23:28I have to say.
23:29Everyone that I've met.
23:30That's about a smile.
23:31I even said that it was a bit fair.
23:32Everyone has been so.
23:33Not only nice and professional.
23:34But just kind of personable.
23:35Yeah.
23:36So nice to meet you.
23:37Yeah.
23:38They obviously have.
23:39They really have.
23:41Aw.
23:44I will see you again.
23:46Bye.
23:47Bye.
23:48Oh, I am so happy.
23:49Like, since everything I walked in the crowd's life, everybody has just been so happy.
23:54welcoming, professional, useful as well.
23:55And I actually feel at home here.
23:56Like, you know how if you try to get treatment or something and you maybe do go to a few different
23:57places.
23:58I mean, everybody has been so happy.
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24:54And then, and then that's it. And then after that initial, or not initial, sorry, I've already said it, after that appointment to get my plan, then the next step will be actually wearing the things, so stay tuned for that.
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