How does gap between your front teeth close?

Question

How does the gap between your front teeth close after using a palate expander? Do you need braces or does it close naturally?

Answer 1

Some kids get it to close on its own. The tiny little fin of skin between your two front teeth and your upper lip is called the freenum, or something that sounds like that. I was eight when they told me.

What they do if your two front teeth keep moving further apart is snip that bit of skin because it's pulling too tight on your teeth and pulling them apart. They told me that if mine didn't improve on their own, they would do that.

Mine fixed themselves, Thank God.

When you get to be older though, they have to use braces. My mum has a large gap and the orthodontist wanted to give her braces when she was forty. She said she'd live with the gap.

Answer 2

I was one of the kids who had the gap between my teeth at school, and the only way it ever closed was by using braces.  My teeth are smaller than most people's so I had to settle with just the tiniest gap between them, since otherwise I would have had a gap somewhere else.  But that, I think, is about the only way to get it taken care of without making a gap between any of your other teeth.

Answer 3

well if you used an appliance then you're undergoing orthodontic work, right?

i know i needed braces to close mine - i had one, got a palate expander (which made the gap WORSE), and then had braces put on a few months later.

Answer 4

it depends.i mean did your parents have gaps when they were older and they closed up.cuz the same thang with my friend.sher gaps closing up.cuz her dad had one when he was younger so.or you might need braces maybe you should see your dentist.it might close up over time so.

Answer 5

you need braces i had the same problem

Answer 6

lol, u need braces.