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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.

Invisalign in St John’s Wood is making a great impression on our patients and all of the people around them, every time they smile. Invisalign is a modern type of brace that is changing the way people see teeth straightening. It is almost invisible, easy to manage and maintain, and allows the wearer to feel in control of their teeth straightening process. Patients have an added bonus when using Invisalign in St John’s Wood with us at Aura Dental because they get to track the progress of their teeth straightening before it has even begun. This is a serious motivation booster for people wearing removable braces.

Want to know how it works?

Invisalign is a series of clear plastic aligners. They look like transparent tooth covers and fit tightly over your teeth. You will get your series of aligners at the beginning of your treatment. When you look at the series, you will clearly see how your teeth will progress right up until the end of your treatment. You will wear each set of aligners for 1-2 weeks. Once your teeth have settled into each set of aligners, it’s time to move on to the next. Your teeth will become straighter with each set in the series, and most people will never be able to tell that you are having your teeth straightened at all.

The clear plastic aligners used for Invisalign in St John’s Wood are made of a very thin, clear plastic. The aligners are barely visible when they are in your mouth. This means you can go about your usual daily routines without having to feel self-conscious about how your teeth look. There are no metal fixtures to worry about.

What about eating with Invisalign?

You will need to take your aligners out for eating, you can get a handy box to put them in during meal times. This means you are able to eat anything you like. Traditional braces require you to steer clear of some sticky or hard foods, but with Invisalign you are totally free to choose what you eat. Just remember to clean your teeth before you put your aligners back in to keep your teeth healthy throughout your treatment.