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Windermere, Florida
If you are looking at braces in Windermere, you probably want two things before you book anything. A real number, and some confidence that the orthodontist who starts the case is the one who finishes it.
Braces at the Windermere office
$4,550 metal or clear ceramic
About $177 a month over 24 months with $300 down, at 0% interest.
Free exam and digital scan. You leave with your price in writing, whether or not you decide to start.
Dr. Robert Ogden has seen patients at the Windermere office on Maguire Road since 1995. He is an orthodontist, a dental specialist who spent three additional years training in how to move teeth and correct bites, and he is the only orthodontist across all three Ogden Orthodontics offices.
If you have already sat through a consultation or two, you may have left with a price and no real explanation of it, or a long explanation and no price. That is the tiring part, and it is the part this office tries to get out of the way in the first half hour.
Yes. You get the fee in writing at the consultation, and the consultation is free.
You are not asked to pay for X-rays or records before anyone will quote you. The exam and the digital scan are part of the free visit, and the price comes out of what Dr. Ogden sees in them.
You can take the written plan home and think about it for as long as you need.
Braces move individual teeth and change how the upper and lower teeth meet, which is why they handle more than crooked front teeth.
At this office Dr. Ogden uses them for crowding, gaps and spacing, rotated teeth, teeth that protrude, overbites, underbites, crossbites, and open bites.
Some of those also respond to Invisalign, and the difference is not just how visible the treatment is. At the consultation Dr. Ogden looks at the movement your case actually needs and tells you whether braces, aligners, or either one can get there predictably.
Metal and clear ceramic are the same price here, so the choice comes down to your case and how visible you want treatment to be.
The most versatile option, and noticeably smaller than the ones most parents remember wearing. Because they stay on the teeth, treatment does not depend on anyone remembering to put something back in.
These blend into the natural color of the tooth. They are the common request from adults and older teens who want the control of braces without the hardware being the first thing people notice. They run slightly larger and ask for more careful brushing.
These hold the wire with a built-in clip instead of an elastic tie. Dr. Ogden will tell you at the consultation whether they suit your case.
Positions are planned digitally on a model of your teeth first and transferred in a single pass, rather than being placed one tooth at a time during the bonding appointment.
Most parents land here somewhere between a dentist's offhand suggestion and a school photo they did not love.
If you have already collected two or three different opinions about your child, that is common, and it is not a sign you have missed something. Dr. Ogden will tell you what he sees, what he would do, and what he would leave alone.
The American Association of Orthodontists puts the first orthodontic visit at about age seven. That is early enough to catch a problem while the jaw is still growing.
A check at seven does not mean braces at seven. Most children Dr. Ogden sees at that age are simply watched until the timing is right.
Full braces usually come later, once enough permanent teeth have come in. Exactly when depends on how your child is developing rather than on a birthday.
Most children do not. Early treatment, sometimes called phase one, is usually reserved for problems that benefit from being addressed while a child is still growing, such as certain crossbites, underbites, eruption problems, or front teeth that protrude far enough to be injured easily.
If your child is not in one of those situations, Dr. Ogden will tell you to wait and check back. Those monitoring visits are free.
Early treatment does not always remove the need for braces later. When Dr. Ogden recommends it, he will explain what it is meant to accomplish now and what may still be needed once the permanent teeth are in. Ask him 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 bigger share of this practice than most people expect, and the reasons repeat. Teeth that drifted after a retainer got abandoned years ago. A bite that has started to wear unevenly. Crowding nobody treated the first time around.
Mechanically adult treatment works the same way. Healthy teeth can be moved at almost any age. Cases sometimes run a little longer, and clear brackets are the more common request. They cost the same $4,550 as metal here.
No. Dr. Ogden treats adults of every age at this office, and age on its own does not rule out treatment.
The thing people tend to regret is not the treatment. It is the years spent deciding whether to ask.
What matters is the health of the gums and the bone holding the teeth, not the year on your license. 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, aligners are worth pricing alongside braces. Invisalign in Windermere covers that option in full.
Before, top. After treatment with Dr. Ogden, bottom.
A real case
In the top photo this patient is biting all the way down and the upper and lower front teeth still do not meet. That is an open bite, and it hides well because the smile looks fine from the outside.
It tends to show up in small ways. Trouble biting into a sandwich with the front teeth. A lisp that never quite goes away.
Sometimes a thumb habit or a forward-resting tongue is behind it, sometimes it is just how the jaws grew, and the fix depends on the cause. In a young child an open bite occasionally closes on its own once a habit stops. In teens and adults it usually does not.
Find out where your bite stands