Published by SMILE-FX® in Miramar
This guide helps a person or family connect an assessed underbite contribution, growth context and proposed method's purpose. SMILE-FX® Orthodontic & Clear Aligner Studio is a full-service practice in Miramar, Florida, with a digitally driven clear-aligner focus.
Maya and Alex are original fictional teaching examples. Their supplied findings and explanations are educational context, not patient records, personal recommendations or proof of a treatment outcome. The guide does not establish local facemask stock, a headgear protocol or surgery at the practice.
What each educational source contributes
The AAO's underbite article, published June 26, 2026, explains dental, jaw and mixed contributions and the place of assessment and growth in discussing options. Its general treatment discussion is read alongside the limits of the Cochrane review.
Cochrane's April 2024 review covers evidence through January 2023. It distinguishes immediate findings in child studies from the much more limited longer-term evidence. It does not provide a personal result prediction or a promise of avoiding adult surgery.
The British Orthodontic Society's 2019 protraction-headgear leaflet explains the forward purpose and a possible separate widening component. Its dated general patient information is not the practice's protocol or your personal appliance directions.
The clinical-director and practice links below identify the real publisher and provide service background. They do not mean that a named clinician reviewed Maya's or Alex's authored example.
Doctor-led care, from planning through follow-ups
SMILE-FX® confirms the care policies described here. Linked practice pages provide service background. Offered capabilities and the individual underbite proposal are different questions; the orthodontist explains which services are appropriate.
At SMILE-FX®, board-certified orthodontists see every patient, including at follow-up visits. Clinical director Dr. Tracy Miao Liang leads a full-service Miramar practice with a digitally driven clear-aligner focus. Your goals, proposed appliance and continuing care belong in an explanation you can understand.
Sources: SMILE-FX® clinical director
Understand the proposed plan
AI-assisted precision planning supports your orthodontist's work. Before-and-after smile-preview simulations give you a view of proposed changes, so you can point to what you understand or want explained. A simulation illustrates the plan; it is not a promised result.
Sources: SMILE-FX® planning technology
Low-dose 3D CBCT imaging supports clinical assessment, detection of findings and treatment planning when indicated. The information helps your orthodontist connect the findings with an explanation of the proposed approach.
Sources: SMILE-FX® planning technology
Stay connected between visits
Smartphone and iPhone monitoring comes standard with braces and aligner plans. You can send progress information from home between visits for clinical review. Remote monitoring also helps flag issues such as broken brackets or aligners that are not tracking, with the clinical team evaluating what needs attention.
Sources: SMILE-FX® progress monitoring
With 24/7 access to provider support, you have a contact route when a question or concern arises. Responses are handled through the clinical team's care arrangements, keeping access to support distinct from a promise of an instant reply.
Sources: SMILE-FX® progress monitoring
Connect your plan with practical continuing care
SMILE-FX® makes in-house 3D-printed aligners and offers same-day aligner and retainer options. That connects doctor-led planning with a local fabrication route. Your prescribed appliance and individual arrangements determine which option is used.
Sources: SMILE-FX® aligner options · SMILE-FX® retainers and whitening
For continuing care, SMILE-FX® can ship course-correction aligners to your home. Rescue aligner care provides a doctor-led route for people seeking help with a prior aligner course. Course corrections and Rescue arrangements are set individually alongside the clinical plan.
Sources: SMILE-FX® patient resources · SMILE-FX® Rescue care
Custom 3D-printed bracket options are also part of the practice's range. Their off-site manufacturing is separate from local aligner and retainer fabrication, so the appliance and its production route stay clear in your discussion.
Sources: SMILE-FX® custom bracket information
Understand your options and included care
SMILE-FX® offers Invisalign and OrthoFX, including AirFlex, alongside night-time aligner options. The range gives you specific choices to discuss, while your orthodontist determines the system and wear instructions for your individual plan. Commercial systems and in-house appliances have their own production routes.
Sources: SMILE-FX® aligner options
Fixed and removable retainers plus whitening are included at SMILE-FX®. These benefits belong in the full treatment conversation and written proposal, alongside the active appliance and continuing-care arrangements.
Sources: SMILE-FX® included care
At-home and in-office whitening options give a separate color goal its own place in planning. The appropriate method and personal arrangements are decided individually; the availability of both modes does not mean every person receives both.
Sources: SMILE-FX® retainers and whitening
Sources for this lesson
Sources: SMILE-FX® clinical director · AAO: Underbite causes and options (2026) · Cochrane: Underbite treatment in children (2024) · BOS: Protraction headgear leaflet (2019)