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A lot of our patients live in Winter Garden. They come to our office on Maguire Road in Windermere, about four miles south of downtown and a straight drive down one road.
If you are looking for an orthodontist right now, you are probably trying to work out what treatment would cost and whether the same person will handle it from start to finish. Both of those get answered below, along with the rest of what usually comes up.
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Almost any orthodontist can put brackets on teeth. That part is not really in question.
What you are deciding is who plans the case, who watches it month to month, and who is sitting there at month fourteen when something is not moving the way it should. At practices with more than one doctor, that can be a different person at different visits, and at larger corporate offices the assigned provider can change partway through treatment.
At Ogden Orthodontics there is one orthodontist. Dr. Robert Ogden has practiced in Central Florida since 1994, and he plans and finishes every case himself across all three offices. The person who tells you what your child needs at the consultation is the person who takes the braces off at the end.
Dr. Ogden earned his DDS from Case Western Reserve University and completed a full orthodontic residency at the University of Florida College of Dentistry. He is an orthodontic specialist rather than a general dentist who also offers braces, and he is a member of the American Association of Orthodontists, the Florida Association of Orthodontists, the American Dental Association, and the Florida Dental Association.
That matters more than it sounds like it does, because orthodontic treatment usually runs a year to two years. That is a long time to spend wondering whether the plan changed hands.
Orthodontics is not one treatment for one age group. It is a set of decisions spread across a childhood, and sometimes across a lifetime.
The American Association of Orthodontists recommends a first orthodontic checkup no later than age seven. Most children who come in at that age do not need anything yet, and we will say so. What the visit does is catch the jaw and bite problems that are much easier to correct while a child is still growing. Some of those are handled with a palatal expander, including the Leaf Expander, a spring-loaded palate expander that widens the upper jaw gradually on its own with no key for a parent to turn at home. More detail on early orthodontic treatment for children is on our treatments page.
This is when most families start. Braces or Invisalign both work, and the right answer depends on the bite and on the teenager. Braces work continuously and do not depend on anyone remembering to put an aligner back in, which is why they still suit a lot of complicated cases and a lot of teenagers. They do require care with hygiene and with what gets eaten, and some cases need elastics worn as directed. Invisalign is close to invisible and comes out for meals and photos, but it only works if it is worn twenty to twenty-two hours a day. Dr. Ogden will tell you plainly which one your case actually calls for rather than selling you the one you asked about. You can read more about braces and clear aligner options or about Invisalign at the Windermere office.
A good number of our patients are adults, and many of them are parents who sat through a consultation for their child and quietly decided they wanted to fix their own teeth too. Teeth that are properly aligned are easier to brush and floss, which can make long term oral hygiene more manageable. Adult treatment is common enough now that it is unremarkable.
This is an Ogden Orthodontics patient before treatment and after. The upper and lower teeth were crowded and rotated, and the bite did not meet correctly.
The part worth noticing is not just that the teeth look straighter. It is that they now meet evenly, which is what keeps them wearing down at the same rate and what makes them easier to keep clean for the next several decades.
Every case is different, and Dr. Ogden will tell you at the consultation what yours would involve and what it would realistically look like at the end.
Photos of an Ogden Orthodontics patient, shared with permission. Individual results vary.
