Highlands Orthodontist
Highlands is one of our closest communities – a short hop west on I-10 from our Eagle Drive office, and the same Goose Creek CISD district that serves Baytown. We treat families from the neighborhoods along East Wallisville Road, the streets near Highlands Junior School, and the areas that back up to the San Jacinto River.
Knecht Orthodontics is located at 9115 Eagle Dr, Suite 300 in Mont Belvieu, and Dr. Kristen Knecht sees children, teens, and adults from Highlands most weeks. For a lot of these families, we are the closest orthodontic office that offers full digital treatment planning, and the drive is shorter than the trip into Houston they were expecting to make.
Your first visit is a free consultation: a digital scan, a look at what is actually going on with the bite, and a written plan with a timeline and a cost. No pressure to start, and no vague estimates.
Top-Rated Highlands Orthodontics Office
Highlands families are choosing between us and practices in Baytown or farther into Houston, so we compete on the things that change your experience. Impressions are digital, taken with an iTero scanner. When we need to see roots, unerupted teeth, or the airway in three dimensions, we take a CBCT scan instead of guessing from a flat image. Appliances and retainers are 3D printed in-house rather than queued at an outside lab.
Brackets are KLOwen custom digital brackets, placed from your own scan. For a Highlands family, that usually shows up as shorter adjustment visits and fewer of them across a case – real time back for a parent leaving work early to make an appointment.
The rest is simply how we like to run a practice: honest timelines, plain pricing, and a team that returns phone calls. Our technology page details the equipment if you want the specifics.
Orthodontic Services We Offer
Our orthodontic services for Highlands patients run from first evaluations through adult retreatment. Dr. Knecht recommends an initial visit around age seven โ not to start braces, but to catch a crossbite, crowding, or a habit while a child is still growing. Teens get braces or clear aligners depending on the bite and the schedule. Adults come in for first-time treatment, or to fix teeth that drifted after braces years ago.
We also treat airway concerns. When we see narrow arches, crowding, and a child who breathes through their mouth or sleeps poorly, we look at how the airway and the bite are connected instead of treating the crowding in isolation.
Whatever the case, the sequence is the same: scan, conversation about your goals, written plan. You will know what we are doing and why before we start.
Invisalign In Highlands, TX
Invisalign gives Highlands patients a way to straighten teeth without changing how they look day to day. Clear, removable aligners work well for adults in customer-facing jobs and for older teens who would rather not have brackets in their senior photos.
We begin with an iTero scan and a projection of your own movement, so you can see the endpoint before you commit to the process. From there you wear each aligner as directed and progress through the series. You remove them to eat, and you brush and floss exactly as you do now, which is the main reason our adult patients favor them.
Aligners only work when they are worn, generally 20 to 22 hours a day. If Dr. Knecht believes braces will produce a better or faster result for your bite, she will tell you that during the consultation rather than after you have paid for aligners.
Braces Specialist In Highlands, TX
We treat a lot of Highlands patients in braces, and for many bites braces are still the most direct route. Our KLOwen brackets are available in metal and ceramic, so students at Highlands Junior School and adults who want something discreet can be treated with the same digitally positioned system.
Beyond a straighter smile, braces correct the functional problems underneath – crowding that traps plaque, gaps, and bites that wear teeth unevenly or strain the jaw joints. Those functional gains are frequently the reason we recommend braces over aligners for a specific patient.
Because Highlands is close by, we can usually handle an emergency the same week. Placement takes one appointment, adjustments are quick, and a loose bracket or a poking wire is a short trip down I-10. Call (832) 982-1281 and our team will tell you whether it needs an appointment or can wait.
Visit Our Office Today Or Schedule A Free Consultation
Highlands is minutes away, so there is no reason to put this off. Visit our Mont Belvieu office at 9115 Eagle Dr, Suite 300, or schedule a free consultation and leave with a scan, a plan, and a price. We are open Monday through Wednesday 8:30am-5:30pm, Thursday 8:00am-5:00pm, and Friday 8:00am-3:00pm.