At Garden View Dental Care, we want you to have an excellent experience when you come to us for treatment. Whether it’s general dentistry, restorations or getting your teeth straightened, we keep our services up to date and offer you modern materials, equipment, and knowledge.
That’s why when it comes to teeth straightening, we offer our patients in Buckinghamshire clear braces. Clear braces do a great job of straightening your teeth, but without the embarrassment and discomfort that can come from traditional heavy-duty metal braces. Such braces are really only required for serious bite alignment issues.
There are a couple of different systems of clear braces in Buckinghamshire, and one may be more suitable than the other for your particular alignment issues, lifestyle, and budget. Let’s take a quick look at both of them:
Six Month Smiles
These braces look like smaller, clearer versions of traditional braces. They use the same mechanical principles of brackets fixed to the teeth at specific angles, with wire strung between them to pull the teeth into alignment. The difference is that they are designed to work on the front six social teeth only. These incisors and canines have one root, rather than two or three, so they are much easier to move. The gentler forces required mean that the brackets are smaller, and can be made of clear ceramic, and the titanium nickel wires are tooth-coloured. Together they blend into the teeth rather than dominating them. As the product name implies, the average treatment time is only six months.
Invisible aligners
These look like very thin, transparent mouth guards. A series of them is 3D printed. The first is slightly different from how your teeth are now, and the pressure nudges your teeth into alignment rather than pulling them. You wear each aligner for about two weeks before moving onto the next one, getting through somewhere between 12–48 of them. Aligners are removable for eating and cleaning, but discipline is required: you need to wear your aligners for at least 20 hours a day to stay on schedule with your treatment.
To find out more about clear braces in Buckinghamshire, why not come in for a consultation?