Ingenious teeth straightening
What we’d all really like is to be able to get our teeth straightened without any braces at all marring the fronts of our pearly whites. While that is not yet possible, you can get braces in St John’s Wood that are so discreet that people would have to peer very closely at you to spot them.
These braces in St John’s Wood don’t work on the traditional systems of wires strung between angled brackets to pull teeth into position. Instead, they spring from the digital age, and rely on aligners that look like very well-fitting mouth guards that push the teeth into position. These are Invisalign aligners – the 21st century’s answer to tooth alignment.
How does it work?
Invisalign works entirely differently from normal braces in St John’s Wood. Instead of just one appliance that is fixed to your teeth and periodically adjusted by your dentist, Invisalign gives each patient a series of 3D printed rigid, transparent plastic aligners, which are so thin that once they are snapped on over the teeth, they can’t be seen.
The first aligner is very slightly different from the current position of your misaligned teeth. When you put it on, you will feel a pressure. This pressure is what moves your teeth. Each aligner will move each tooth a tiny little bit, and it will take about 2 weeks to do so. Once the pressure wears off, it’s time to pop in the next aligner and wear that one until the pressure disappears again.
The aligners are 3D printed for each patient, from detailed, precise measurements from digital scans done by us here at Aura Dental. We also use that information to show you a computer simulation of how Invisalign will move your teeth into alignment. You get to see your finished smile before you begin treatment with us.
We send all that information off to the Invisalign lab in the USA, where the aligners are printed. You need only come back to us for check-ups every 4 to 6 weeks, saving a lot of time in a year-long process.
Invisalign aligners are also removable for eating and drinking and cleaning, which is so much easier than fixed braces.