Category: Braces

Getting braces as an adult is a treatment that promises thousands of moments of mild embarrassment as strangers clock the metal brackets and wires on your pearly whites, look up to gauge your age and then do mental acrobatics that you read as ‘No! You’re far too old for braces’.

Some will even go on to comment and ask you why you are wearing braces as an adult. This can get tiresome over the months you will be wearing braces, and at times you may even wish to say something rude, which may not be a good plan if you are in a public-facing job.

You can avoid these many moments of social awkwardness if you get Invisalign in St John’s Wood from us at Aura Dental.

Invisalign is a way of straightening mild to moderate misalignments that is both invisible and removable. Teeth straightening Nirvana, frankly.

Here’s how Invisalign in St John’s Wood works:

The consultation

You start with a free consultation, where we determine whether or not Invisalign is the best system for you. Because Invisalign is based on mouth guard-style aligners, there are some alignment issues it cannot help with, such as partially descended teeth.

If you are suitable, we take detailed measurements of your teeth and feed that information into a programme that will show you how your teeth look now and how they will move into alignment.

The treatment

You receive a series of bespoke clear, very thin plastic aligners. You start at aligner #1 and wear it for at least 22 hours a day. Over the course of the next 10 days or so, it will feel increasingly comfortable as the built-in pressure points move your teeth. Once it fits perfectly, it’s time to move onto the next aligner.

The advantages

Very thin, transparent plastic means your aligners disappear from view once in place. No funny looks, no comments, just magically straighter teeth.

You take your aligners out to eat and drink so there is much less hassle than with fixed braces.

To find out more about Invisalign in St John’s Wood, call for a free consultation.

If you are concerned about crooked or uneven teeth but don’t want to go through the long process of wearing braces, Invisalign in St John’s Wood could be the answer for you. At Aura Dental we can fit your with Invisalign aligners and help you get the smile you want.

Invisalign aligners are practically invisible

What puts many people off getting traditional braces is the way they look. This isn’t a problem with Invisalign in St John’s Wood. Invisalign aligners are made from thin, clear plastic and are almost invisible unless someone looks closely at your mouth. What’s more, Invisalign are removable, so if you are having your photograph taken or giving an important speech, you can simply take them out.

You can eat whatever you want with Invisalign in St John’s Wood

Invisalign are designed to be removed when eating, so there is no need to alter your diet. No danger of food getting caught in them, or having to avoid crunchy or sticky foods. It is important to keep your teeth and the aligners clean though, so ideally you should clean your teeth after eating before putting the aligners back in.

Less disruption to your life

Each set of aligners is worn for one or 2 weeks, and you will be given a number of sets at a time which you will swap over yourself at the right time. This means that you will only need to visit us every 6 to 8 weeks to check on progress and get a new batch of aligners.

Comfortable to wear

One advantage of using Invisalign in St John’s Wood is the level of comfort they offer. They are made from a specially designed SmartTrack material that is thin but sturdy, and are custom made to fit snugly around your gums. They are designed to be worn for 22 hours a day, and you will soon get used to the feel of them.

All sorts of issues can be treated with Invisalign in St John’s Wood

Whether your teeth straightening issues are mild or complex, Invisalign can work in most cases. Gaps between the teeth, overcrowded teeth, and misaligned bite can all be corrected with Invisalign in St John’s Wood.

There are many different types of braces available, and the choice can sometimes be confusing. If you’re thinking of getting braces in St John’s Wood, here at Aura Dental we can help you decide which type is best for you.

Types of braces

The type of braces best suited to you will depend on your teeth and bite, how long you are willing to wear them for, your budget and your lifestyle. Classic braces with brackets and wires are no longer the only choice. Braces in St John’s Wood have come a long way in recent years, and there are much more discreet options available now.

Six Months Smiles are braces that use brackets and wires, but they are aimed mainly at adjusting the front, most visible teeth, and results can be achieved in just 6 months. The braces are made from clear or white parts, so they are much more discreet than traditional braces.

Lingual braces are fixed to the backs of the teeth, so when viewed from the front they are practically invisible. Removable aligners are also an option.

How long do braces take to work?

The time you will need to wear braces in St John’s Wood will depend on the type of braces and the amount of adjustment required. Aligners can work on the front teeth in just 6-12 weeks, Six Months Smiles braces take around 6 months, as suggested by the name, and more complex issues with traditional braces can take up to 2 years to fully adjust.

Are braces expensive?

Again, it depends in part on the type of braces or aligners you choose. Here at Aura Dental we can offer a monthly finance option for braces in St John’s Wood, making getting braces much more affordable. If you are thinking of getting braces, talk to our staff about finance options.

Do braces hurt?

Braces work by gently forcing your teeth to slowly change position over time, so there is bound to be some discomfort, but it’s not as painful as you might think. There can be some soreness just after the braces have been fitted, and after adjustments, but a good dentist will make sure this is kept to a minimum.

The thing about braces is that they are a bit of a pain to wear. They’re not as much of a pain as in the 70s and 80s when they were enormous and made of serious metal and took over almost your entire face, let alone your mouth, but they’re still a bit of a drag.

That’s what puts most people off getting their teeth straightened, the idea of all that extra time spent poking around trying to remove bits of your lunch (memo to self: don’t eat spinach) from behind the brackets.

Then there’s the sheer embarrassment of being a serious grown-up for goodness sake, with metal all over your teeth like you were still only in year 8. It’s not a good look now you’re an office manager/traffic warden/global superstar.

If either or, more likely both, of the above are putting you off getting straight teeth then have we got some good news for you. At Aura Dental, we can fit you with Invisalign in St John’s Wood, and no one, except maybe your mum and your best beloved, will be any the wiser.

Never heard of Invisalign in St John’s Wood?

We’re not surprised, that’s how good these very thin, transparent mouth guard-like aligners are at stealth straightening. They hug your teeth like a second layer of enamel and once they are in place, they are pretty much invisible. Hence the name, Invis-align. Clever, eh?

The great thing is that not only can no one see them, so you get to look like a grown-up all the way through your treatment, but you also won’t have to spend hours flossing and brushing round your aligners. Nor will you have to give up spinach or any other foods you love.

This is because Invisalign aligners are made to be removed when you eat or drink anything other than plain water. Take them out, eat that spinach, clean your teeth, put them back in. Just make sure you wear them for at least 20 hours a day to stay on schedule with your treatment, which, by the way, takes a year on average.

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.

Stealth 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.

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 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.

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.

Here 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.

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.

Once 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.

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.

What 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.

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.

What 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.