Straighter teeth make for happier people

Smiling is vital for our mental wellbeing. A genuine smile, known as a Duchenne smile, when your eye muscles contract as well as your mouth muscles, kicks off the production of serotonin in the body. Serotonin is one of the body’s feel-good chemicals. It goes into special receptors, like a key into a lock, and then we feel great. And then guess what happens? We smile more! We smile at people, they smile back, and soon the world is a happier place.

At Aura Dental, we know the value of a good smile and it’s not measured in money, it’s measured in feeling good and seeing how feeling good smooths people’s paths through life. It’s one of the things that we love about the work we do with braces in St John’s Wood.

A worthwhile investment

Braces can make a huge different to people’s willingness to smile. Some of our patients come to us and tell us they are so ashamed of their crowded, crooked, or gappy teeth that they have been suppressing their smiles for years. Trouble is, when you do that, people tend to assume you are miserable and unfriendly, and they instinctively feel reluctant to spend time with you. Not smiling can lead to loneliness and isolation, which leads to more not smiling, so it goes around.

But with braces in St John’s Wood, all that can change in a few months to a year or so, depending on your particular misalignment issues. If you were suffering from serious bite issues, these would have been fixed with National Health Service braces in St John’s Wood. There are plenty of milder cases for which NHS funding is not available. We can treat these cases too.

Your options

Invisalign aligners, also known as invisible braces, are clear plastic mouth guard-like trays that are 3D printed from digital scans. You get a series of them, somewhere between 12–48, and wear each one for about 2 weeks. In that time, specially designed misfits in the plastic pressure your teeth to move, and each aligner is a step toward alignment.

Why not come in and see how braces in St John’s Wood can help you smile more?