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A first check around age seven, watched by a specialist rather than guessed at. Most children need nothing done yet, and that first visit is always free.
That is the most useful thing an orthodontist can tell a parent, and it is the reason the first visit exists. An early check is not the start of treatment. It is a specialist looking at how the jaw is growing, whether the adult teeth have room, and whether anything is worth watching.
Usually the answer is come back in a year. Occasionally it is that a small intervention now avoids a much larger one later. Either way you leave knowing, instead of wondering.
The scan is a camera, not a mouthful of putty, and it takes a few minutes. Nothing sharp, nothing that needs explaining away. Children generally find it more interesting than alarming, because they can watch their own teeth appear on screen.
Parents sit in on everything. You will hear the same explanation your child does, and you will leave with it written down.
Dr. Daher has planned orthodontic treatment for over 30 years and leads a specialist orthodontic practice in downtown Vancouver. He opened the world’s first Invisalign-only practice in 2009, has taught in 142 cities across six continents, and still sits on Align Technology’s scientific advisory board.
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Around age seven. Most children will not need anything done yet, but an early check lets Dr. Daher see how the jaw is growing and catch anything worth watching while it is still easy to influence. That first visit is always free.
The first growth check is free. If treatment is genuinely needed, most plans start at $1,000 down and from $220 a month at 0% in-house interest, with your insurance billed directly. You get the exact figure in writing before anything begins.
Usually, yes, and we will say so. The point of an age-seven check is not to start treatment but to know whether anything needs watching. If early treatment would genuinely help, an expander or partial braces timed to the growing jaw can prevent a bigger problem later.
It is an appliance that widens the upper jaw while it is still growing, creating room for adult teeth that would otherwise crowd. Whether your child needs one depends on the width of the palate and the space available, which is exactly what the free check measures.
No, and the practice has been built around not doing that. Dr. Daher's rule for thirty years has been the least treatment that gets the right result, with no unnecessary extractions. If the honest answer is wait a year, that is the answer you will get.
Often, yes. Invisalign Teen is designed for it. Whether it suits depends on the bite and on how reliably the aligners will actually be worn, and we would rather have that conversation honestly up front than six months in.