Why I needed Braces

I needed braces because I had a cross-bite. I had a severe overbite because my lower jaw was too short. Also, the width between my upper teeth, the width of the maxilla, was too narrow. The outsides of my upper molars lined up with the middle grooves of the lower molars. Ideally, that’s where the inside edges should have been. So the maxilla was too narrow by the width of a whole molar.

Because my lower jaw was so short, my lower teeth cut right across the track of my upper teeth, a cross-bite. So all my bite force was concentrated on the front molars.