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Mount Dora, Florida
Braces are not something you buy once. They are a standing appointment every six to eight weeks for about two years, and how the result turns out depends on who is in the room for all of them.
So there are two things worth settling before you book anything in Mount Dora. What it costs, and who you would be seeing for the next two years.
Braces at the Mount Dora office
$4,550 metal or clear ceramic
Down payments start at $300, which works out to about $177 a month over 24 months at 0% interest.
Your fee may be lower once an insurance benefit is applied. The exam and digital scan are free, and you leave with your price in writing whether or not you decide to start.
The answer to the second question is Dr. Robert Ogden. He opened the Mount Dora office on North Donnelly Street in 2006 and has treated here ever since, which is long enough that parents who had braces in this practice now bring their own children in.
He finished his orthodontic residency at the University of Florida in 1994 and has practiced nothing but orthodontics since. He is the only orthodontist across all three Ogden offices, so the person who plans your case is the one who bonds the brackets and the one who takes them off.
Worth reading before you sign anything, because these five lines are where expectations and reality usually come apart.
Everything on that list is normal orthodontics. The difference is having it in front of you before you commit rather than discovering it in month nine.
Most teenagers start braces once enough permanent teeth have come in. That lands anywhere from about eleven to fourteen, depending on how your child is developing rather than on a birthday.
What parents usually want to know is the practical side. Visits run about every six to eight weeks and most of them are short. The office is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, and the front desk works around a school schedule where it can.
Metal brackets are still what most teens choose, partly because the colored bands are the part they look forward to. Clear ceramic costs the same here, so a teenager who would rather the braces not be the first thing anyone notices is not asking you to spend more.
Often, yes. The American Association of Orthodontists puts the first orthodontic check at about age seven, and most seven-year-olds who come in need nothing done yet.
The point of that visit is to find the smaller number of cases where waiting makes the problem harder to fix. Certain crossbites and underbites, teeth that are not erupting where they should, or front teeth that protrude far enough to get injured easily.
If your child is not in one of those situations, Dr. Ogden will say so and put them on a watch schedule. Those monitoring visits are free.
If your child plays a contact sport, bring it up at the consultation so a mouthguard that fits over the brackets gets sorted before the season rather than after the first broken bracket.
Adults are a larger share of this office than most people expect, and the reasons repeat.
Teeth that drifted after a retainer quietly stopped getting worn. Lower front teeth that crowded a little more each year through someone's thirties. A bite that has started wearing the enamel unevenly, which a general dentist usually spots first.
Or having thought about it for fifteen years and deciding to be done thinking about it.
Mechanically it works the same at fifty as at fifteen. The difference is pace. Bone that has finished growing remodels more slowly, which can add a few months to a case, and most adults here ask for ceramic rather than metal. Ceramic is the same $4,550.
What decides whether an adult can start is the condition of the gums and the bone holding the teeth, not age. Dr. Ogden checks that at the consultation and will tell you plainly if something needs treating first.
That is one of the most common reasons adults come in here, and it is not a sign the first treatment failed. Teeth drift for life. The retainer is the whole answer to it, and relapse almost always traces back to the retainer stopping.
Relapse cases are often shorter and cheaper to correct than the original treatment was. If the movement is small, Invisalign in Mount Dora at $2,495 for Touch-Up may be all it takes, and that gets priced at the same free consultation.
Metal and ceramic carry the same fee at this office, so for most people the decision comes down to appearance rather than budget.
Steel brackets are noticeably smaller than they were a generation ago, and nothing moves teeth more predictably. They are the default for growing patients and for complicated bites, and the colored bands at each visit are the part most kids look forward to.
$4,550 Full treatment fee
Ceramic is tooth-colored, so at conversation distance and in photographs the brackets mostly disappear. The mechanics are identical to metal and so is the fee. Adults request these most, and so do teens heading into a year of school photos.
$4,550 Same as metal
A small built-in gate holds the wire rather than an elastic tie, which means less to swap out at each visit and, for some cases, fewer visits overall. Whether your case is one of those is a clinical call Dr. Ogden makes at the consultation.
Priced at consultation Depends on the case
Bracket positions get worked out on a model of your teeth ahead of time, then transferred to the mouth in one pass with a tray instead of being placed one at a time by eye.
You spend less time in the chair and the brackets end up where the treatment plan put them. It is the approach this office recommends and uses wherever a case suits it.
