Excerpt from a YouTube video by Dr. Sanda Moldovan (Holistic Path to Kids Orthotics) offering clinical guidance on retainer use in children: retainers are prescribed for short periods during growth and development, during high-risk activities (e.g., sports) or persistent oral habits, then tapered to occasional/night use with follow-up to monitor function and issues.
You still have your patients wear retainers for a little while? For a little bit, yeah. While they're kind of going through their growth and development and while they're going through some of like if they're playing sports, you know, because when they get hit, things they change, you know, if they are going through, like, if they're having habits like all the time like this, things they change. So I have them to wear it for for a short period. And then I say now it's going to be a really cute thing on the side of your bed. I don't want you to wear it every single night. You know, I want you to wear it once in a while after a few, you know, few months and just see how it is. And we're going to be looking at some of those functions and some of the things that it's not working.
