European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ii for a Farah Fawcett smile braces Are popular for improved with health reasons by Richard Flaste new York times a 15yearold who recently had her braces after two years during which her Teeth were bound in Metal and forced into flashed what she described As her Farah Fawcett smile and said she had never minded wearing the there had been some pain at first and she had every now and that she was wired like a radio but nobody had Ever taunted her nobody had called her tinsel braces Arent in and they Arent she there just a fact of that fact is becoming increasingly the american association of orthodontists estimates that there Are now four million children under representing a Rise of 8 to 30 per cent Over the number live Yean the Rise is in to corporate and Union health insurance plans that now include financial assistance for Ortho parents who Are paying the Bill without that assistance Are spending to for treatment that usually lasts 24 to 30 As each year a new swarm of children place their Teeth in the hands of the coun try they Are being met by some relatively new thought and technique notably the growing use of braces that do not require the Metal bands around each but they for the most getting the braces for the same reasons they did 50 years ago improved with health reasons today everything is said one orthodontist who happened to have crowded Tower Teeth and space Between us and the Chil Dren Are so and another orthodontist complained about the pressure from mothers who will feel guilty if they dont offer their children what All the other children on top of All the orthodontists appear to hold out the notion of some Ideal smile that they can and that Wor Ries Sidney professor of Oro facial growth and development at Columbia he believes strongly in the value of his profession in promoting Oral health and in improving a Childs emotional but be there is this real problem of the concept of the and he won Why on Earth has this thing about Teeth grown up among when nobody expects to have Ideal or Ideal feet the Ideal can come Back to haunt or when their work Falls Short of As it often Horowitz said that of the Teeth he had seen about 25 per cent did not Worsen after the braces were about 70 per cent showed a slight shift and about 5 per cent shifted More than the reasons might involve facial Bone growth or the grinding of Teeth or Horowitz As the end result was almost always an whatever resistance to wearing braces has existed because they Are ugly and sometimes painful May be diminished by the new braces Dow these Are brackets that adhere to each individual tooth without the necessity of a Metal band surrounding each the brackets Are placed on each tooth with an they Are tooth coloured and thus Are less noticeable than the Metal the wire that attaches to each tooth is still but a White wire appears to be on the Brink of the adhesive brackets Are lighter than the traditional in cases of in which the Teeth would have to be forced apart to get the band around each these brackets eliminate that sometimes painful Morton a Norristown orthodontist who has been instrumental in developing the new said that he modern living and his colleagues had trained Den Sta to the he that there has been some resistance to the brackets and says that parents might Nave to Call various dentists to find one who pre fers that one of the main quarrels with the brackets is that they Are often raid to be weaker than the others and this to break off More that the adhesive has been so refined in recent months that the brackets Are now quite quite a frequent area of discussion in orthodontics is the health value of straighter orthodontists often assert that straightened Teeth will prevent gum Dis ease and tooth loss in later Bui there is no absolute proof of although logic supports the Horowitz explained that crooked Teeth were difficult to Brush and that alone could Lead to major a bite that is improper could be placing a Hazard Ous amount of pressure on one tooth or a few but some people with crossed or spaced Teeth or a less Harper feet bite would do Well another area of uncertainty sur rounds orthodontists in the past and Many still do it today have gone to great lengths to break a child of that but Horowitz said the concern Over thumb sucking was based on he said that it was by now very Well documented that thumb sucking had different effects on different he said that whether or not thumb suck ing damaged the Teeth depended on the Force with which the child did How Long the child persevered and whether there was some constitutional predisposition for the Teeth to be moved in this he said that he had the names of women in his files who were in their 20sstiu ing their thumbs on and whose Teeth were can a Parent save Money by sending a child to a University dental clinic rather than to a private orthodontist and is any expertise lost in the decision to do that Gerald acting chairman of the department of Orthon tics at new York asserts that parents can save Money with Little he said that the Nyu clinic would charge a maximum of and often less than for Complete treatment that would be equal to that in private prac Borell said that the dentists of the clinic were students working under strict super he noted two one was that most clinics did their work in the which Means a child would have to miss some perhaps once a the other was that the clinics accepted their patients based on each patients usefulness in the training of so a serious problem might get immedi ate treatment in the but there would be no Rush to change a merely Ordinary smile into a Farah Fawcett by Ermo Bombick at wits end remember when eating out was a big thrill i remember the first time i ate in a fancy you just knew it was they didst have toothpicks by the Cash Register or a sign that watch your hat and the Novelty has worn off now and its a Way of children coming and going husband working Odd the convenience of Yelling into a clowns Mouth and two minutes later driving off with your has made eating out a the As it used to be where daddy went to work and mama stayed at Home All describes Only seven out of every Ico households in the United its probably Only a Mailer of time before eating at Home will become the treat eating out used to be just where do you want to go for your birthday tuesday hobbies eyes Light up and he could we eat at Home mothers eyes meet her we can afford cant Jim after its his says what the we can splurge one Day of the How Nice you All says Mother on the night of the in so used to seeing All of you slopping around in grub clothes when we eat everyone come to int it great say the kids exit not having to look at menus and make All those decisions do we want the secret sauce the sesame seed Bun the extra crispy the two Pounder the meted cheese this is really look at says one of the what do you Call pm says i thought youd get a kick out of id like a malt with two says theres no need to prop my Mouth open with a Fork and shout into says ill get it for whats for dessert its hot Apple How did you do that without a Little red Light i took it out of the what will they think of next As the family sings Happy Robbie its Nice not having a Bunch of strangers in headbands around the table Well have to do this again maybe next As Mother tosses the China noisily into the trash she smiles and this was id almost forgotten Bow Nice it is to eat at she crawls up Between the Golden Arches around the stove and advances the number of hamburgers served to one Mil two Hundred seventy five Elfield Page 24 the stars and stripes june 1977