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.

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.