The short answer: yes! Patients worried about the stigma attached to wearing ‘train track’ traditional style braces in adulthood can now benefit from clear braces in Beaconsfield, using a system called Six Month Smiles.

Six Month Smiles, available at Garden View Dental Care, can reduce treatment time to around six months by concentrating only on straightening teeth that are visible when smiling. This results in a smile transformation for our patients. Treatment can even be as short as four months but sometimes as long as nine months – either way, this is much quicker than the years of treatment you may have heard of with traditional fixed metal braces.

Six Month Smiles clear braces in Beaconsfield can be used to treat a wide variety of dental problems, including crowding, cross bites, overbites and gappy teeth.

Is Six Month Smiles right for me?

The discreet clear and tooth-coloured wires and brackets used in Six Month Smiles provide an aesthetic and practical solution for patients who are concerned about the appearance of metal fixed braces. In addition, the gentle forces used means discomfort is kept to a minimum. This is possible because the front six teeth that this treatment targets only have a single tooth root each, making them easier to move.

Six Month Smiles clear braces in Beaconsfield are not as discreet as Invisalign which involves wearing almost invisible removable aligners. However, Six Month Smiles treatment is quicker than Invisalign by nature of it only targeting the front six ‘social’ teeth.

What does the procedure involve?

Your dentist at Garden View Dental Care will begin your treatment by conducting thorough checks on the teeth, with the help of x-rays, teeth impressions and photographs. Taking to you about what you hope to achieve will help determine whether Six Month Smiles is the best possible treatment for you. The costs and duration of treatment will be outlined before you commit to starting treatment. On your next visit, your brackets will carefully attached to the fronts of your teeth and the wire strung though. Regular appointments for adjustments will keep your teeth moving in the right direction, until you finally achieve the smile you’ve always wanted.