How long will treatment last?
A. Expect your treatment to last from 18 to 30 months depending on your individual needs. Keeping your appointments, following your doctor’s instructions, caring for your braces and practicing good oral hygiene is the best method of completing your treatment on time, or in some cases, earlier than anticipated.
It is important to remember that therapy is a process. Parents usually bring their children to treatment once the children begin having significant problems either at school or at home. These problems typically did not develop overnight, and it will take some time to alleviate them. Although it is hard to tell at the beginning of this process how long it will take, I will give you regular updates about the progress your child is making. By the third session I will share with you a treatment plan targeting the problems that you identified on our first meeting. Included in this treatment plan will be target dates for the goals outlined. Once we agree that the goals have been met, I recommend that we set up a couple of monthly maintenance sessions to ensure that things continue to move in the right direction. After these maintenance sessions, if we agree that your child is where you would like him to be, we will terminate treatment. And of course, you are always welcome to come back in th
