Trial of the Instruments Part 7: The Long Game

Age 9: a gap in the smile. Dr. Gray, the Orthodontist and the team take on the long game in a St. Louis park, one season at a time. The Gap fights karate in two halves. The Stowaway drops out of the trees and hides in the roof of the mouth. The Crowd is four little teeth with room for three. Then the Calendar: kickboxing, and time. It wins if you quit. Every finishing blow lands on a 3D skull: an alveolar cleft packed with the patient's own bone, a canine hidden in the palate that is exposed, bonded and fitted with a gold chain, and the slow month-by-month pull that brings it into place. About 4 in 5 canines came in on their own through the bone graft in one review of 8 studies (Jahanbin A et al., J Craniofac Surg 2022;33(2):e194-e200, https://doi.org/10.1097/SCS.000000000.... Results vary. Your surgeon and orthodontist plan the timing together. Chapters 0:00 Age 9 0:07 The team and the Orthodontist 0:18 Case files 0:20 Round 1: the Gap (karate) 1:00 Three years later 1:06 Round 2: the Stowaway (jujitsu) 1:42 Bonus stage: catch the leaves 1:50 Winter 1:56 Round 3: the Crowd (wrestling) 2:26 "Will it hurt?" 2:35 Final: the Calendar (kickboxing) 3:32 About 4 in 5 3:37 Age 15 Villains are fictional. Moves and callouts are original takes on arcade fighting games. Skulls are stylized visualizations for entertainment and education, not medical advice or diagnostic images. Timing and results vary; your surgeon and orthodontist plan it together. AI-assisted production. 3D skull anatomy: BodyParts3D, The Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS), CC BY-SA 2.1 JP. St. Louis South Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery South County (Kennerly Rd) | Festus | Creve Coeur stloralsurgery.com Has your kid's orthodontist mentioned a canine that has not come in? Tell us in the comments. #Orthodontics #OralSurgery #StickFigureFight #StLouis #ImpactedCanine #ExposeAndBond #CleftAwareness #Braces #PediatricDentistry #OralSurgeon #Animation #FightAnimation #MartialArts #STL #OMFS