Bite Correction without Headgear!

Commonly, Dr Thomas & Powaybraces are asked to correct Protruding upper front teeth. There are many causes of this particular condition; most commonly are small lower jaws, excessive thumb habits, or a variety of other issues affecting the front to back growth of the jaws.

When patients have these situations, various treatment options have been used to correct this type of bite: Headgear, Herbst appliances, Extractions, Pendulum, Wilson, Bionator, Activator, and many more. The last two years, I've been using an appliance called a Carriere Distalizer – and its proven to be clinically absolutely amazing and efficient at correcting bite problems where the upper front teeth stick out in front of the lower.

PLEASE check out the following web site and watch the video animation that demonstrates how the Carriere Distalizer works – it’s really quite impressive!! My patients have experienced this effect and correction every single time its been used & I'm now using it much more often because of how comfortable it is for my patients.

Another great benefit is that its able to reduce the total amount of time our patients actually have to have braces on their teeth! A typical orthodontic patient requires 18-24 months of braces. With this approach, the first 6-8 months deal with bite correction WITHOUT any braces on the teeth at all!! This means the actual amount of time in braces for this type of bite is reduced to 12-18 rather than much longer. Occasionally, Dr Thomas is able to correct a patients bite entirely using this appliance, avoiding the use of braces altogether. Another option is to use this appliance followed by the use of Clear aligners - again avoiding the use of braces for some of our patients.

Watch the link below to see how this particular device corrects bites which were extremely difficult to fix in the past.

http://carrieresystem.com/distalizer.php

Great Results Matter to Us!

Great results speak for themselves – Dr Thomas prides himself on delivering the best results possible using state of the art techniques and materials. Often, patients who otherwise are told they require jaw surgery, come to us and finish just like this patient did – a great bite, smile, and no jaw surgery.

However, its important to know that not all patients who have severe jaw discrepancies can avoid jaw surgery to achieve a really nice result – sometimes we cannot even come close without it. Our office requires a surgical route far less than years ago & outcomes like this case are why we are confident most people can be treated without jaw surgery.

If you have a difficult bite, have been told you require jaw surgery to correct your smile or bite, come visit us to see if you might benefit from the latest advances in Orthodontics!

Beginning Bite and Underbite Below:

Poway Braces & Beauty Queens

Did you know that our office has helped provide gorgeous smiles to at least 6 homecoming Queens, 4 Miss Poway's, and countless Best Smile teens over the last 10 years?? Dr William Thomas prides himself on providing the best possible Orthodontic care using state of the art braces, high tech and current techniques, to enable his patients to have the best possible results. When we do your braces, its not only just to have straight teeth, but also to enhance your smile to the fullest extent possible. This patient's final result would typically require jaw surgery to both widen her arches and to correct and close her open bite (front teeth separated)

What this means in everyday terms is that your teeth must match the outline of your lips, showing just enough gums, but not too much, make sure your smile is broad and wide so you do not have dark area's on the sides when you smile, and that your teeth are NOT brought back too far in your face. We not only care about what you look like today, but also when your 40, 50, and 60! If your teeth are brought back too far, either with headgear or extensive extractions of teeth, its possible your face can prematurely age. Dr Thomas carefully evaluates your smile, profile, position of your teeth in your face, to make sure they are in the best position possible for your face over the lifetime of your smile.

Before Braces with
Dr Thomas

After Braces with
Dr Thomas (without jaw surgery; 22 months)

Our Poway and EastLake Orthodontic offices use approaches that minimize moving your teeth back, unless you cannot close your lips easily. One of the main reason's Dr Thomas chooses to have permanent teeth removed is to enable his patients to comfortably close their lips together without having to strain to close their mouth and lips. If your teeth are so far forward that you cannot close your lips comfortably, then it makes sense to bring the front teeth back, often requiring extractions of permanent teeth in these specific situations.

When you visit our website www.powaybraces.com, or come into our practice in either Poway or EastLake, Chula Vista - you will notice first hand Dr Thomas' attention to your smile, your face, and the position front to back of your front teeth for YOUR face. Dr. Thomas does not use 'average numbers' applied to your face, he uses your face to determine what is best for you!

Come visit our Orthodontic practice - and see the quality our practice offers to you and your family.

Clear virtually invisible braces!

Can you see the braces on this patient? Poway Braces & Dr Thomas use the state of the art totally clear Damon Braces. The Damon all clear braces are simply amazing!

These clear braces are part of the innovative Damon System, which combine rubber band free (which discolor) braces with high technology wires that are clinically proven to move teeth fast, safe and comfortably with truly spectacular smile and facial results.

Damon Clear braces combine the best of traditional clear braces and invisible aligners to deliver a discrete treatment experience for our patients. What do you think? Can you see this patients braces?

View testimonials from patients who have been treated with the Damon System Here!

We Appreciate Our Patients & Families at Poway Braces!

We are thankful to have to many wonderful families who trust Poway Braces for their Orthodontic / braces treatment. The following is one families testimonial for our practice:

"Dr Thomas is a world class Orthodontist. As parents we had complete faith in him. His entire staff is very caring and wonderful.They are very clean and thorough which for me was a big deal. We can't thank him enough for the beautiful smiles he has brought to our two children, My children get compliments all the time. He is a perfectionist. We thank him for his compassion and all that he has done for our family. We will continue to refer patients to his office. I only hope that he will still be around for my grandchildren one day!!!!!

P.S The kids love all the perks at the office cookies,drinks,tokens etc, We will miss your office but are happy with our children's beautiful smiles!!!!!
Sincerely, The Mor family"

Miss Teen Poway: Jackie Foster

Congratulations to our patient Jackie Foster!! She just won Miss Teen Poway and has a gorgeous smile! Both Jackie and her sister have now won Miss Teen Poway and both were treated in our office....we are so proud of both of you!!!! Dr Thomas (Poway Braces) prides himself on delivering the highest quality treatment with fantastic results & the fact that our office has had over 6 home coming queens, 4 Miss Teen Poway, and 1 Miss Asian USA winner speaks for itself!

Advanced Orthodontic Training & Dr William Thomas

This past February, Poway Orthodontist Dr William Thomas attended the second largest Orthodontic meeting held in the United States called the Damon Forum. It was held in Orlando Florida & had over 2000 doctors and staff in attendance. Over three days, Dr Thomas attended and participated in 16 hours of continuing education courses - California only requires 50 hours every two years!!

Poway Street Fair

What a wonderful time Poway had with its street fair. Dr Thomas & Poway Braces were well represented and had a booth with prized, a spin the wheel event, and a Flat Screen TV Raffle. Over 300 families stopped by and met Dr. Thomas and Yasman and received prizes for spinning the wheel. Poway Braces prides itself on civic participation - we enjoyed meeting so many fellow Poway Residents and sharing the latest information about braces and orthodontics with them.

Our practice and Dr. Thomas have been in the Poway Community for over 15 years and have treated thousands of families in Ramona, Poway, Sabre Springs, Rancho Bernardo, PQ, Scripps Ranch, and surrounding areas.

Poway Braces First Annual BBQ / Movie / DJ Night

Poway Braces & Dr. Thomas had a great time at the 1st annual BBQ / Movie / DJ night in Poway Park. Here are more pictures from that really fun evening. Please visit our Facebook page to see hundreds more photos of our super fun event. Our Facebook page is found on the main page of our web site at www.powaybraces.com

Thanking Our Fantastic Patients & Families!

Our office focus's on constant improvement - which is why Dr. Thomas recently attended Anthony Robbins intensive 4 day personal growth training seminar two weekends ago. Why do we do what we do? What if we want to change our habits? How to we train ourselves to perform and live on another higher level than we ever have before? These and many and so many other incredible tools were learned while listening to Anthony Robbins.

On the first evening, Dr. Thomas and his Wife Scarlett completed the FireWalk - something that really gets your mind to do something it would otherwise NEVER in a million years do!

After the intense 9am to 11pm intense training, we returned to Poway energized and ready to put our new learned skills into action. Poway Braces & Our entire professional team deeply appreciate our patients loyalty, friendship, and business over the many years we've been in Poway. We take our responsibility to provide the highest quality orthodontic care with terrific customer serviced seriously.

Because of our Love and Appreciation to our Community in which we live, play and work, we are holding our First Annual Movie / BBQ /Raffle / DJ / Night - August 27th, Old Poway Park, 6pm - 10pm. Food, games, and Raffle start at 6pm. Movie is 'Alice in Wonderland' and starts at Dusk. Get your Tickets at our office before they run out! Over 500 people are expected!!!

Thank you Poway!!

First Annual Poway Braces Summer BBQ / Movie Night

All of us at Poway Braces are excited to announce the date and time for our First Annual Summer BBQ / Movie / Entertainment night Event! Make sure to put it on your Calendar ~
August 27th, 6pm to 10pm – Old Poway Park (next to the Hamburger Factory)

Schedule of Events:
6pm – 8pm: BBQ, music, games, clowns, contests and much more
8pm-8:30pm: Raffle: Flat Screen TV, I-Pod, DVD Player, mini laptop and more……
8:30pm – 10pm: Movie (Alice in Wonderland) Rated PG

We encourage you to bring all family members and invite your friends. Free movie tickets are available for pick up at our office in Poway anytime during regular business hours.

*** Don’t forget Blankets and Lawn Chairs!!! ***

Poway Braces Summer Contest Winner!

Congratulations to powaybraces Summer Contest Winners Andrew (& Katie)!! Way to go Andrew - you rock! A big thank you to Andrew's mom who writes about us: "We love Dr Thomas and his staff. With all the wonderful care we receive and all the fun events like movie nights and drawings....we feel like part of the family..."

Love Your Smile ~

Congratulations to everyone who had their braces removed by Dr. Thomas & his team June 2010! All of us at Poway Braces hope you have a fantastic summer enjoying your new awesome smiles. Be sure to keep posted about our upcoming BBQ and Movie night being held in Poway Park in the Month of August. All information about our event can be found on the PowayBraces FaceBook page - the link is on the lower right hand corner of our main page of our web site.

What a Team!

What a family! We enjoyed getting to know each of you & share in your lives and smiles. Thank you from all of us at Dr. Thomas' Poway Braces!!

Your Braces are Off!!

We get so excited when we remove our patients braces. Its a super fun day, we get to compare what someones smile and bite looked like when we started, and to compare to how nice they look when the braces come off. Poway braces and Dr. Thomas take great pride in providing high quality service and results.

Our team uses the state of the art Damon Braces - which provide results far nicer, easier, and with fewer appointments than before when our office used traditional braces.

Dr. Thomas stays on top of the newest advances in Orthodontics attending three times as many continuing education courses a year by the California State Board. He is also invited to speak in locations all over the US, Puerto Rico, Canada, and South America.

Poway Braces iPad Contest

Have you heard about Poway Braces iPad contest? Winner to be selected Aug 31st! Contest rules - create a short video about why you like / love our office, become a follower of our You Tube Poway Braces page, and post your video! Thats it. Your odds of winning are pretty darn good - will YOU win the iPad?

Braces & Electric Toothbrushes

Did you know an electric tooth brush usually gets your teeth even cleaner - especially with braces! Electric tooth brushes, in a Consumer Reports test, removed 75 percent or more of plaque in our tests, on average.

The top-rated Oral-B rotates in both directions and pulses, and a sensor stops ...pulsations when you brush too hard; the runner-up Philips Sonicare is the vibrating type. Despite its effectiveness, most users said it vibrated too much. (Sonicare brushes might take getting used to, but they have an Easy Start feature that can help.) Poway Braces encourages the use of these rotary tooth brushes during orthodontic treatment with braces.

American Association of Orthodontists Meeting in DC

Wow, great times in our Nations Capital! Poway Braces & Dr. Thomas attended 4 full days worth of AAO classes and now are dining across from the White House of all places. Tonight we are visiting the Lincoln Memorial and the Kennedy Center – very exciting! Did you know Dr Thomas graduated from Georgetown Universities Dental school and Orthodontic programs in the Kennedy Center?
A few of our continuing education courses included up to date information about TMJ causes & potential future treatment methods, computerized patient customized treatment (Insignia), advances with early treatment for young children (6-8 yrs old), custom mouth guards with braces and treatment techniques using small temporary ancor devices to correct problems which used to require invasive jaw surgery.

Great Weather in DC

Just landed in Washington D.C. for the annual American Association of Orthodontists meeting. We are excited to see old friends, learn new updated information from researchers, and visit new sites and locations in the D.C area. Poway Braces & Dr Thomas pride themselves on attending continuing education courses throughout the year - staying up to date on new developments in our field. California requires Orthodontists to attend at least 50 hours of continuing education every two years. Dr. Thomas typically attends over 50 hours of continuing education each and every year- occasionally teaching courses himself. Is it important your Orthodontist stays on top of new research findings and developments? We believe it is!

Braces completed in 3-8 months?

Recently, Dr. Thomas attended a fascinating course given by Dr. Wilko from Pennsylvania. He (Periodontist – gum specialist) and his brother (who is an Orthodontist) have developed a technique whereby specialized gum procedures combined with braces produce remarkable changes in a very short amount of time.

If you would like to learn more about this technique please visit www.wilkodontics.com