Andrea

My dentist is quite vague about how to correct the cross-bite. The real way to do it is to wear braces, which for most of us is unacceptable - I went through all that when I was a kid, and have no intention of repeating the exercise! I think my cross-bite is due to the cusp of a wisdom tooth which won't allow the upper teeth to sit squarely on the tooth - the upper jaw has to slide to the left in order for me to be able to bite together. She mentioned about taking out the wisdom tooth, so the teeth can sit squarely, wearing a nightguard (not sure what that does) and having osteopathic treatment to correct the neck and back muscles which are out of place because of the cross-bite. Sounds OK-ish to me. If it gets rid of my cracking jaw, tender spots on my scalp and swollen glands that'll be great.

Sorry - I'm not much help with the malloccusion (what's that?). The palate expanders etc sound a bit scary - do you have any other options?

Nicola