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do i need a palate expander for a few mm?

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i spoke to my ortho but she said i have a good palate etc but i feel like my bite is rly fucked? lmk
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i spoke to my ortho but she said i have a good palate etc but i feel like my bite is rly fucked? lmk
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this is a panoramic x-ray, not actual bite.
Your third molars (wisdom teeth) are still developing. Bite can change potentially.
Lower wisdoms look mesio angular so tilted forward and upper wisdoms are also unerupted.

Upper and lower incisors look pretty good (reasonable)
no crowding, root parallelism looks decent. The upper palate arch looks like a U.

pano can’t show overjet but I don't think you have any extreme class II or class III discrepancy's.

Wisdom teeth should be removed i'd say, looks like they can push on second molars so you should watch for that in the future.
 
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this is a panoramic x-ray, not actual bite.
Your third molars (wisdom teeth) are still developing. Bite can change potentially.
Lower wisdoms look mesio angular so tilted forward and upper wisdoms are also unerupted.

Upper and lower incisors look pretty good (reasonable)
no crowding, root parallelism looks decent. The upper palate arch looks like a U.

pano can’t show overjet but I don't think you have any extreme class II or class III discrepancy's.

Wisdom teeth should be removed i'd say, looks like they can push on second molars so you should watch for that in the future.
yh mb the pano is a bit useless i dont have the side profile ones
i had my braces for ages so theyre fairly straight but i had awful crowding and had an extraction earlier in life
ok thank you tho!
 
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