Our lives come from our parents, and we naturally inherit the personalities and genes of the previous generation from our parents. Of course, the genes for teeth also exist in heredity. Let's take a look at which dental issues have been inherited:
Malocclusion
Many babies are found to have crooked teeth or misaligned teeth when they open their mouths, or crowded together looking very "unpleasant", as if a small mouth can't hold so many teeth. The reason why children's teeth are crooked and crowded is because they inherit certain oral characteristics from both parents, thus causing conflicts. Some children inherit the father's "big flat teeth" while also inheriting the mother's small bones. The bones limit the growth position of the teeth, resulting in either the inability to grow out or insufficient space, leaving the teeth with no choice but to grow crowded.
Parents with buck teeth, children also with buck teeth
Many people have protruding front teeth, and quite a few children visiting the dentist have this issue. Children with protruding teeth are often teased by classmates, and children are sensitive, which can lead to inferiority complex. Protruding teeth also include the situation where the lower jaw teeth tilt inward toward the mouth. This genetic factor is stronger. He said that porcelain teeth, after all, the protrusion of the upper jaw may be caused by bad habits such as trying hard to push teeth outwards when they couldn't reach the milk bottle as a child, while the retrusion of the lower jaw is almost never due to postnatal reasons, but rather "born from parents".
Children with "short chin"
Clearly originates from family inheritance. In life, many children and adults exhibit the phenomenon of "shorter chins", commonly referred to as "no chin". From a traditional facial aesthetic perspective, "no chin" gives people a sense of proportion imbalance. Short chins in orthodontics are called deep overbite, meaning that under normal circumstances, the upper teeth should cover the lower teeth by 1.2 millimeters, and deeper bites may result in a short chin. Deep overbite often manifests as not seeing the lower front teeth when biting down, and if accompanied by skeletal deformities, it will manifest as a short chin. This deformity is very likely to injure the upper gums. Clinical research has proven that this type of deep overbite has "obvious family inheritance tendency".
There are also some other situations, such as congenital supernumerary teeth, congenital missing teeth, and congenital absence of teeth, etc., which cannot be fully enumerated here. These conditions bring more or less negative impacts on our lives and health. Fortunately, advanced technology and precise repair methods can fix and improve these defects, restoring our beautiful appearances and giving us confident lives.