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Clermont, Florida
If you have been pricing braces in Clermont, you have probably noticed how hard the number is to find. Most practices will tell you their fees are fair and that everything is included, then ask you to come in to hear what they actually are.
Braces at the Clermont 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.
Dr. Robert Ogden opened the Clermont office on Citrus Tower Boulevard in 1994. It was the first of the three offices he runs, and more than thirty years later he is still the only orthodontist in any of them.
That is worth more than it sounds like. An orthodontist is a dental specialist who spent three additional years after dental school learning how to move teeth and correct bites. Here, the one who plans your case is the one who tightens the wires and the one who takes the braces off.
The American Association of Orthodontists puts the first orthodontic check at about age seven. That is not when treatment starts for most children. It is when a specialist can see how the adult teeth are coming in and whether the jaw has room for them.
Most of those visits end with nothing to do yet. The value is in catching the small number of cases where waiting until every adult tooth is in makes the problem harder to fix.
For teens, treatment usually lands once enough permanent teeth have come in. Exactly when depends on how your child is developing rather than on a birthday.
Most do not. Early treatment, sometimes called phase one, is usually reserved for problems that benefit from being handled while a child is still growing. Certain crossbites and underbites, eruption problems, or front teeth that protrude far enough to be injured easily.
If your child is not in one of those situations, you will be told to wait and check back, and those monitoring visits are free.
When early treatment is recommended, ask Dr. Ogden to price both stages at the first visit, so you can see the whole cost before agreeing to the first part of it.
Adults are a larger share of this practice than most people expect, and the reasons repeat. Teeth that drifted after a retainer stopped getting worn. Crowding on the lower front teeth that got slowly worse through their thirties. A bite that has started wearing the enamel unevenly.
Or having decided, after years of thinking about it, to be done thinking about it.
Mechanically it works the same at forty as at fourteen. Adult bone remodels more slowly, so a case can run a few months longer, and clear ceramic brackets are the more common request. They cost the same $4,550 as metal.
No. Healthy teeth move at almost any age, and age on its own does not rule out treatment.
What matters is the condition of the gums and the bone holding the teeth. Dr. Ogden checks that at the consultation and will tell you plainly if something needs treating first.
If keeping treatment out of sight matters more to you than anything else, price aligners alongside braces. Invisalign in Clermont covers that option in full.
Treated by Dr. Ogden
These are two cases that arrived looking nothing alike. One was crowded, the other was not crowded at all.
Crowding and rotation. Teeth overlapping because the arch had no room for all of them, with several turned out of line.
Spacing. The opposite problem. Teeth that were never crowded, just sitting apart, with a gap between the front two.
Braces correct both, which is why a consultation starts with an exam rather than a price list. What your case actually needs is what decides the plan, and you get that in writing before you commit to anything.
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