Q.
My 12 year old daughter has been refered to an orthodontist for nhs treatment. She has a 10mm overjet, and has to wear a functional appliance to bring her lower jaw forward. However, the appliance she has been given is absolutely hideous and my daughter is absolutely distraught at having to wear it in public. It has a plastic plate that fits into her palate which clips onto the back teeth, with a wire coming round her front teeth. Protruding from the front of the palate from behind her front teeth, is a huge sort of gum shield that comes down to sit on her lower front teeth, to pull her lower jaw forward, that fills up the front of her mouth. My question is therefore is it possible to get a different and more discreet style of appliance that would do the same job? I have seen other types of appliances online, twin blocks etc that look much less obtrusive. The orthodontist is extremely unhelpful and uninformative, when i rang to ask this question, she wouldnt speak to me personally, but through her receptionist informed me that this was the only style that would do the job without explaining why, and that she just had to get on with it and wear it. My daughter is so upset by it all.,