Author: Aura Dental

Join the 4 million

There are some times when it’s not so cool to join in with millions of other people. Bands, for example, are always better just before they become massively popular, and the same goes for fashion. But with teeth, you don’t want to muck about trying out things before everyone agrees they are the best way to do something. So, the fact that you are thinking of a joining a bandwagon that has 4 million people on it, and are considering getting Invisalign in St John’s Wood from us at Aura Dental can only be a good thing.

Invisalign in St John’s WoodStealth straightening

In fact, you can still be quite stealth about what you are up to. It’s not like sleeves with no shoulders, so last season darling, with Invisalign in St John’s Wood, no one needs to know that you are part of a huge wave of teeth straightening smilers. If you choose to tell your friends and colleagues, that’s up to you, but please don’t go worrying that they will notice your Invisalign clear aligners over your teeth. Invisalign in St John’s Wood is made with transparent plastic that is only 0.3mm thick. The aligners are like wrapping your teeth in cling film, they will disappear from view when you’ve got them on, and, as they won’t interfere with your speech, there are no giveaway signs that you are up to something. People may not even notice your teeth become gradually straighter and straighter, even though to you it is blindingly obvious. It’s amazing what people don’t notice. They may think, ‘hey didn’t you used to have wonky teeth’, but then they will think they must have imagined it as you clearly don’t now and no one has seen any sign of braces.

Stealth at meals too

You may worry that you will give yourself away when you try to eat with your aligners in, but the beauty of Invisalign in St John’s Wood is that they come out when you eat or drink, and also to clean your teeth. All you have to do is clean your teeth before you put your aligners back in so they don’t get discoloured by any remaining traces of food or drinks and become visible.

Great new teeth

If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing well and that could not be truer than for getting replacement teeth. The latest generation of replacement teeth is dental implants. In St John’s Wood, you can get them with us at Aura Dental.

We love fitting people with dental implants in St John’s Wood because we know they will be getting the nearest thing that modern dentistry can get to natural teeth. In comparison, older styles of replacement teeth, dentures and bridges, leave a lot to be desired in terms of how well they chew, how they affect the other teeth and how long they last.

Dental Implants in St John’s WoodGet the root

The big difference with dental implants in St John’s Wood is that they replace the root of the tooth and not just the crown. Being able to do this did not become possible until the 1950s when a Swedish scientist discovered how well the body bonds with titanium. It took a while for dental implants to be ready to be launched, but they have been increasingly available for the past 30 years and now they have become mainstream, and very versatile as dentists have experimented with them to increase their capabilities.

Dentures and bridges only replace the crowns of lost teeth. Dentures get their stability, such as it is, by trying to get suction onto the gums. It doesn’t always work very well, especially as the gums recede and the jawbone shrinks when there are no tooth roots to keep bone cells renewing themselves. Bridges get their stability by piggybacking on neighbouring teeth, which have to be ground down and made into buttresses. You kiss goodbye to even more teeth when you have a bridge.

With dental implants, you get roots. And roots mean you can get back all the chewing power of your original teeth. That means you can eat apples without having cut them up first. You can eat roast meats, roast potatoes, nuts. All the stuff that makes life worth living.

Along with all this freedom comes longevity. You can expect your dental implants in St John’s Wood to last for at least 15 years, maybe decades.

How do you like your smile? With crooked teeth or straight?

Ask anyone if they’d prefer their teeth to be crooked or straight and the answer is always going to be straight. Even teeth that are just a tiny bit crooked can be difficult to keep free from plaque, and give you that extra bit of embarrassment that you could well do without. Straight teeth, on the other hand, release you from any feelings of self-consciousness and also tend to last longer because they don’t fall victim as much to gum disease, decay or crumbling.

But, as an adult, much as you’d like straight teeth, can you face going through treatment with braces in St John’s Wood? We think you could if you came to us at Aura Dental for treatment. We have a great range of braces in St John’s Wood that allow you to carry on living your life without having to make huge adjustments to what you do, or suffer a lot of pain or embarrassment while your braces straighten out your teeth.

Braces in St John’s WoodBraces in St John’s Wood can be fixed or removable, depending on your alignment issues and lifestyle requirements.

Fixed braces

These are cemented onto your teeth. Brackets and wires like traditional braces, but with a twist. The brackets are made of clear ceramic and the wires are tooth-coloured. The whole device is much smaller and finer than old-style braces, blending in with your teeth rather than obscuring them.

The brands we use are called Six Month Smiles and Cfast. They work on the front 6-8 teeth only, taking about 6 months to align them.

Removable aligners

These are mouth guard style aligner trays that snap on over the teeth. One brand, Invisalign, is made of very thin, transparent plastic. You get a series of aligners and wear each one for 7-10 days before moving onto the next. Pressure points inside each aligner gently press on the teeth to get them to move.

The Inman Aligner sandwiches the front teeth between spring-loaded bows that pressure the teeth to align. Treatment can take as little as 6 weeks.

Retainers

Everyone has to wear a retainer after treatment to keep the teeth in place while the bone hardens around them.

There’s no hiding here

In some circumstances, it’s good to hide away behind a wall, but when it comes to straightening your teeth, if you are like most people, the last thing you want is a wall of metal obscuring your pearly whites while you get them straightened. Whether you are teen keen to make a good impression, or an adult whose career relies on looking well groomed and mature, the last thing you need is a set of brackets and wires that make you look like the nerdy kid at the front of the class. What you need is Invisalign in St John’s Wood.

Invisalign in St John’s WoodHere at Aura Dental, we are an accredited provider of Invisalign in St John’s Wood. When you come to us for a consultation, we will be able to tell you whether Invisalign is the right treatment for straightening your teeth, and, if you have a mild to moderate misalignment issue, chances are that Invisalign will be just right for you. If you have a more severe alignment issue, it may be possible to start you off on traditional metal braces and then move to Invisalign later on during your treatment.

Why so invisible?

Invisalign in St John’s Wood is made is from very thin, 0.3mm, transparent plastic that has been 3D printed into mouth guard-like aligners that fit on over each arch of your teeth as snugly as a wet suit. Once the aligners are hugging your teeth, they become pretty much unnoticeable. It will take your best friend or family member to notice you have something extra on your teeth. To all intents and purposes, your teeth will appear to be becoming straighter all by themselves with no help.

The Invisalign process

You will receive a series of aligners that go over your teeth, one after the other. You wear the first one for around 7-10 days. At first, it will feel like it doesn’t really fit properly. This is the in-built pressure points in action, pressing on your teeth to get them to move. When the pressure wears off, it’s time for the next aligner. Treatment takes a year on average.

Fill the gap at Aura Dental

People find themselves with gaps in their teeth for all sorts of reasons, the two most common being loss of a tooth due to gum disease or experiencing a knock to the tooth causing it to fall out during an accident.

If you find yourself with a gap in the teeth, it may well be worth considering going for dental implants in St John’s Wood. Here at Aura Dental, we provide the means to get you looking and feeling like you again, whether that’s one tooth, multiple teeth, or you have all your teeth missing.

Dental Implants in St John’s WoodHow does it work

Dental implants in St John’s Wood are an increasingly popular option for those wanting to fill the gap in their smile, as they provide a solution that most closely represents the natural tooth, from the root to the crown.

The first step is to come for a consultation where we can thoroughly examine your mouth and see what type of treatment you need, and if you are suited to treatment.

Generally, if you maintain good oral health, most people are suited to treatment. However, we need to make sure that there is enough bone in the jaw to support the implant as the bone needs to mesh with the new material.

You know the drill

The next step is the treatment itself. This is the bit that people may be most apprehensive about, and understandably so. You may be comforted to know that we use a local anaesthetic to help numb the pain. If you have any concerns about treatment, please let us know so we can tell you all you need to know, and hopefully help put you at ease.

Once inserted, the implant is left to heal and allow the bone and blood vessels to mesh with the implant. This provides a strong base for the new tooth.

Teeth in a day

Getting dental implants in St John’s Wood doesn’t have to be as much of a mission as it sounds. We provide teeth in a day, replacing an arch with a fixed bridge in just one visit.

During treatment, any remaining teeth may be extracted, and 4-6 implants placed to replace them.

The subtle way to straight teeth

Gone are the days when you had to straighten the teeth using traditional unsightly metal braces and risk feeling like a ‘metal mouth’. We at Aura Dental are embracing the exciting alternative methods for straightening the teeth.

If you need to go for braces in St John’s Wood, we can thoroughly examine your mouth and the position of your jaw and take your preferences and lifestyle habits into account to find the best option for you.

Braces in St John’s WoodOnce your teeth have been straightened, you will be required to wear retainers to prevent the teeth from sliding back into their misaligned position.

Fixed orthodontic retainers

These subtly straighten the teeth by hiding the wire behind the back of the teeth. It only requires a thin piece of wire, instead of having a mouthful of wires and brackets. It is non-removable, which is ideally suited for children as it means they can’t take it in and out their mouth.

Removable retainers

These are usually worn every night, potentially for the rest of your life. They should soon become as a natural part of your night time regime as brushing your teeth.

Invisalign

If you are looking to get braces in St John’s Wood as an adult, you may want to consider getting Invisalign. These are a series of clear aligners that are custom-made to fit your teeth. These are replaced about every one to two weeks.

An advantage of Invisalign is they allow you to continue to clean the teeth and eat certain foods as you would normally, without having to work extra hard to pick bits of food from a brace.

Six Month Smiles

Getting braces in St John’s Wood may sound like a long and tiresome task, but that doesn’t always have to be the case. With Six Month Smiles, you can align teeth in as little as six months, give or take.

This treatment is designed for those who feel self-conscious about their smile. Your smile can make a huge difference to how your face looks, and straighter teeth can significantly boost your self- confidence, as well as provide other benefits of straight teeth, such as easier cleaning and better chewing and digesting of food.

See-through straightening with Invisalign in St John’s Wood

Would you get your teeth straightened if you knew that no one would know what you were up to? Would you wear braces if people could still see your teeth and not great tracks of metal? Would you go for it if you could still clean your teeth really easily and eat whatever you wanted?

We bet you would and that’s why at Aura Dental, we find so many of our patients with mild to moderate misalignment issues choose Invisalign in St John’s Wood.

Invisalign in St John’s WoodWhat is Invisalign?

Invisalign is a completely different way of getting your teeth straightened. Instead of the usual brackets cemented onto your teeth with wires strung between them to pull your teeth into alignment, you get incredibly thin (0.3mm) clear aligners that pop on over the entire arch of your teeth like a second layer of enamel, only see-through.

The aligners have pressure points inside them and these nudge your teeth into alignment. The progression is achieved by providing you with a series of aligners, each with one with incrementally different pressure points. You wear one after the other, each for 7-10 days, until the pressure wears off. Nudge, nudge, nudge. It takes about a year on average to get your teeth to the right positions, but you will see changes after only a few months, and best of all, no one will see you making those changes. It will happen gradually, subtly and unbeknownst to all but you, your dentist and your nearest and dearest. People at work, casual encounters, none of them will be any the wiser.

Getting Invisalign in St John’s Wood

Before you can have Invisalign, we need to check that it’s the right alignment treatment for you. You need to come along to a free consultation where we will use imaging equipment to look at your teeth and take a lot of measurements. These go to produce a 3D computer image of your teeth and with this we can show you how they need to move to become aligned.

This information is used to make the aligners, which are 3D printed in the USA.

Modern teeth for modern living

Would you still have a black and white TV, or even one of those giant colour sets from the 90s that took up almost a whole room, when you can have a smart TV on the wall? Of course not, they couldn’t do half the things today’s TVs can do. So, why would you bother with first or second-generation tooth replacement options when you can get dental implants in St John’s Wood?

Replacing teeth has been an area of research and development for thousands of years. It started off with dentures, made of bone, of wood, even of other’s people’s teeth, held together with wires, then on galvanised rubber. Then along came fixed bridgework, where replacement teeth were suspended from other teeth which acted like the buttresses at either end of a bridge.

Dental Implants in St Johns WoodNow we have dental implants, which in the way they work, have ironed out most of the issues that technology was not advanced enough to solve with dentures and bridges.

What’s so great about dental implants in St John’s Wood?

The big difference between dental implants and dentures and bridgework is that dental implants replace the whole tooth. Dentures and bridges only replace the crowns of the teeth, the white biting and chewing parts. They rely on either suction to the gums or attachment to neighbouring healthy teeth to stay in place and to bite and chew. Neither is ideal.

Suction to the gums is only about 25% as good as having tooth roots, even when dentures fit really well. Most patients can forget about having a good steak or biting into a crunchy roast potato. And suction gets worse as the gums recede and the jawbone shrinks, so people nearly always end up having to have their dentures relined to get them to stay still in their mouths.

Bridges are more stable but only at the cost of losing two perfectly good teeth to make them. These have to be ground down so that buttress crowns can be fitted over the top of them. And if those teeth fail, then the bridge fails too.

At Aura Dental, dental implants in St John’s Wood give great support and never affect the rest of your teeth.

It’s an ideal world with Invisalign in St John’s Wood

In an ideal world, you could get your teeth straightened and keep on smiling without having to feel self-conscious about your braces. Well, maybe it’s an ideal world after all, because with Invisalign in St John’s Wood, that’s exactly what you get to do.

When you come to Aura Dental for Invisalign in St John’s Wood, you get to keep your professional image intact while a series of clear aligners work almost invisibly on your teeth, untwisting, uncrowding, straightening them until they line up like teeth are meant to.

Invisalign in St John’s WoodWhat are clear aligners?

Clear aligners are different from traditional braces. Instead of one device that consists of brackets, wires and elastics that is cemented onto your teeth, you receive a series of clear aligners. These look like incredibly thin plastic mouth guards.

When you put them on over your teeth, because they fit like a second skin (if teeth can be said to have skin), they are almost impossible to spot.

How does Invisalign work?

You receive a series of aligners and wear them, in order, one after the other, each for about 7-10 days. During that time, precisely placed pressure spots built into each aligner presses on the teeth until they shift out of the way of the pressure. You will know when it is time to move onto the next aligner because the pressure will have worn off. How many aligners you will need depends on your own individual case, but, on average, treatments take about a year.

Watch your teeth straighten up

A year can be a very long time when you have metal train tracks cemented to your teeth, but with Invisalign in St John’s Wood, there is nothing to obscure the view of your teeth, and after a few months, you will be able to see how much your teeth have already straightened, even if they still have a way to go before they reach their final alignment.

Eating is easy

Invisalign clear aligners are removable so you take them out to eat and drink. This means you have as much freedom as ever with your menu choices, and cleaning your teeth is no harder than before.

Book that consultation for dental implants in St John’s Wood

There are so many reasons for not booking a consultation for dental implants in St John’s Wood with us at Aura Dental. Here are a few we bet are running through your mind:

  • The treatment is too painful
  • I have been without teeth too long for them to be any good for me
  • One dentist has already told me I can’t have them
  • They won’t last long and I can’t afford to get them replaced
  • They are too big an outlay.

Dental Implants in St Johns WoodAll good reasons, but all not good enough.

Painful? Nope

Actually, getting dental implants in St John’s Wood is not a painful experience. We make sure you are completely numb with a local anaesthetic, which is plenty as there are far fewer nerves in the jawbone than in the teeth.

Ways to fix jawbones up

Maybe you have already been told you can’t have dental implants in St John’s Wood because your jawbone has deteriorated, because you have been without teeth for some time or because you have had advanced gum disease, or uncontrolled diabetes. Times move on and these days we can give you a bone graft or a sinus lift to solve jawbone issues and if you have your diabetes under control, we can help. Come and get a second opinion.

Short-term treatment

The alternative ways of getting teeth replaced – dentures or fixed bridgework – only last for 7-10 years, dental implants last for at least 15 years if you take good care of them. In fact, as long as you are on the case with oral hygiene, there’s no reason why the implant posts should not last decades, even if you do need to get worn out porcelain crowns replaced. If you have several decades of living to get through, dental implants could even work out cheaper than the alternatives.

What goes on in a consultation

Our implant surgeon will take an in-depth look at your mouth, especially at your jawbone. We need to see what condition it is in and whether you will need preparatory treatments such as bone grafts or sinus lifts. Expect x-rays, maybe scans and a lot of questions about your health history.