My friend didn't need...

This is a very common statement that we encounter.

"When my friend did his braces, he did not need to extract teeth."

"When my friend did his braces, he did not need to do both jaws."

"When my friend did his root canal, he did not need to crown his tooth."

Sometimes, we wonder why patients would ask this question.

To us, each patient is an individual and we treat them as individual. Many times, we simply ask our patients, "Do you look like your friend? If not, what makes you think that your friend's treatment plan would work on you?"

As an example, let us look a two patients that have the same pattern of crooked teeth. That is what we all see on the surface. However, underneath this appearance, one patient's jaws may be wider than the other or his teeth are smaller in size than the other. These factors can tip the decision between needing extractions or not when the braces are done. That is why we have to customise each patient's treatment to specifically suit his unique circumstances.

Patients deserve to be treated as individuals unless they do not want to be treated that way! We treat each and every patient of ours as individuals