1. If you have easily noticeable crookedness in your teeth, glaring forwardness, backwardness, curvature in your lower or upper jaw, or any incompatibility with other parts of the face,

2. If there is something that bothers you about your smile: for example, your gums are excessively visible when smiling or dark spaces appear at the corners of the mouth,

3. If you have biting and chewing problems due to your jaw and teeth relationships,

4. If you have severe mouth breathing, thumb sucking, nail biting, or have had some long-lasting habits like this in the past,

5. If you have difficulty closing your mouth, if your lips are not enough to close it,

6. If you are hearing noise from your jaw joints, feeling pain in your jaw muscles or experiencing jaw locking, if your lower jaw is trapped inside your upper jaw,

7. If you were born with cleft lip and palate or a similar syndrome,

8. If there are members of your family who have had orthodontic problems or lost their teeth at a very early age,

9. If you have at least one missing tooth in your mouth and other teeth have started to shift towards that area,

10. If you cannot clean your teeth well due to crookedness and therefore experience gum problems or if you need to whiten your teeth,

11. If you have large gaps between your teeth,

12. If your dentist has difficulty in making your crown or filling due to the position of your tooth,

13. If early milk tooth extraction was performed,

14. If you swallow and speak by putting your tongue between your front teeth, if your incisors do not contact each other vertically when you close your back teeth,

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All of these are indicators that you may be a candidate for orthodontic treatment.