You're probably thinking what we were at our first orthodontist consult: "Braces?! But she's only 7." Well our trusted orthodontist explained to us that she didn't need braces for straightening like many preteens. Hers was a space issue. If you click each photo it should enlarge for you and you can see her teeth a little more close up. The photo below was taken the day we went to the orthodontist for the actual installation. You can see that her top two front teeth are so far apart she had a large gap between them. And into the tiny slivers of space on either side is where the front side teeth (called lateral incisors) are supposed to fit. Not gonna happen, right? That's what the orthodontist thinks too. He predicts that the lateral incisors would have come in behind the front teeth, resulting in what's called a cross bite.
