Your teeth are really precious. Not only they enable you to bite and chew your food, they also give your mouth a shape and look. Your teeth decide whether your smile is great, perfect, or horrible. Due to various reasons, people have asymmetric arrangement of teeth in their mouth. Sometimes more of teeth protrude towards outside, other times they tilt towards inside. Whatever be the case, you feel embarrassed about your asymmetrical teeth and smile halfheartedly in order to hide them from the world.

Frontal teeth protruding outside or inside the mouth look bad and can even affect your speech delivery. Arrangement of your teeth even decides your facial structure. Lot of people across the world have asymmetrical arrangement of their teeth. In addition to being difficult, it is also very expensive to straighten them. Dentists charge a lot for any work they do. But, there are other methods you can resort to in order to straighten your teeth other than braces. However, you will have to consult your dentist for the same at one or the other point. Below are the tips you can use to straighten your teeth.

Pressure – Applying pressure on the teeth with help of thumb or fingers on a regular basis helps them to get aligned in a line. You just have to put pressure with help of your thumb or other fingers towards the point you want them get straight. Like, in case the teeth are protruding outside, pressure them in regularly from time to time with help of your thumb. Difference can only be noticed in years, though. You can click photographs of your teeth to judge the progress.

Retainer – Retainer is another method that can be used to straighten the teeth. A retainer can be fixed only by your dentist as it differs in size for each and every person. Your dentist lets you know the size of your mouth and teeth, and can get it designed for you. You will need to discuss with your dentist on how the retainer will work for you.

Porcelain – Covering your teeth with porcelain is another option of straightening them. The teeth actually do not straighten, but appear so. You can initially get your worst teeth covered with porcelain and see how they look. Your dentist would be able to give you ideas on how you can pursue further with it.

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