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Life has already got so much hassle in it that if there is a way to take some of it go away, we all like to grab it. Inventors are always hard at it making processes go more smoothly, and nowhere more so than in the world of braces in St John’s Wood.

At Aura Dental, we have a selection of braces that each, in its own way, has been designed to make the teeth straightening process easier for you.

Braces used to be so much hassle that only those with pretty complex or severe alignment issues went to the trouble to sort them out, or their parents made them do it. The truth is though that even mildly misaligned teeth don’t work as well or last as long as teeth that line up and work properly as a team, evenly distributing the forces created by biting and chewing across the whole arch.

So, if you are an adult who is thinking about getting braces in St John’s Wood, it’s worth coming in for a consultation and finding out just how easy it is get your teeth straightened these days.

Invisalign

This is one of our most popular treatments because instead of brackets and wires, this brand uses a series of 3D-printed ultra-thin plastic aligners that look like mouth guards. Once in place, they are very hard to spot, which means you can go through your day without worrying about people staring at you or asking personal questions. Also, Invisalign aligners are removed for eating and cleaning, which means you retain your freedom around food for the duration of your treatment, and cleaning your teeth is as easy as ever. Invisalign works well on mild to moderate misalignments and takes, on average, a year to complete.

Six Month Smiles

Small clear ceramic brackets strung with tooth-coloured wires work on the front six teeth only and use gentle forces that take 4-9 months to do their work.

We also use the Inman Aligner and Quick Straight Teeth braces in St John’s Wood. No matter which braces you use, you will have to wear a retainer afterwards to keep your teeth in place.

Invisalign is an example of how teeth straightening techniques have come a long way in the last twenty years or so. This treatment has acquired cult status over the years since it allows patients to straighten their teeth without wearing metal brackets and wires.

But is Invisalign really effective? At Aura Dental, we use Invisalign to treat a wide number of dental problems and we are constantly pushing the boundaries of clinical possibility. Invisalign in St John’s Wood can help you smile with confidence again.

How is Invisalign different from conventional braces?

Invisalign uses a different mechanism to conventional braces for moving teeth. Rather than pulling the teeth into position, it uses pressure points inside the aligners to nudge teeth into position. And whereas braces require brackets and wires, Invisalign is made of a system of plastic, transparent removable aligners. These aligners are made with the help of 3D technology for the best fit possible. Patients should change them every 7-10 days to see their teeth gradually move into their correct position.

Invisalign in St John’s Wood is more convenient than regular braces, because the aligners can be removed any time for eating and brushing your teeth. Moreover, the aligners are easy to use and do not require constant adjustments just like metal braces. Last but not least, Invisalign aligners require shorter treatment in most cases compared to conventional braces and this is an added bonus for professional adults.

Practical and effective

Many people fail to understand that Invisalign is not a substitute for metal braces. As a matter of fact, Invisalign is a powerful and effective treatment in its own right. Invisalign in St John’s Wood can be customised to treat a number of dental conditions including crowded and gapped teeth. The system works well for most teeth straightening issues. However, if your teeth are severely misaligned, you may need to start with traditional braces before moving to Invisalign.

Commitment is key

As with most treatments, the most important aspect of Invisalign in St John’s Wood is a commitment to your therapy. You need to wear your aligners for at least 20-22 hours every day for them to be effective.

If you could choose, which would you prefer? To have beautifully straight teeth, or stick with your wonky ones? If you answer to the latter, why is that? Is it because you don’t want to have to go through months and months of having brackets and wires on your teeth, making it hard to eat, hard to speak and next to impossible to look like a grown-up? You are not alone. And, you are not obliged to have metal braces now that Invisalign in St John’s Wood is here.

At Aura Dental, we offer Invisalign in St John’s Wood because we know how many of our patients long for straight teeth but don’t want to suffer through the indignities and hassles that can come with bracket and wire braces.

Invisalign is different. Based on the removable retainer, these clear aligners look more like mouth guards than traditional braces. When you choose this method of straightening, you don’t get just one appliance that is fixed onto your teeth and progressively tightened to pull your teeth into position.

No brackets and wires

Instead you get a series of incrementally different 0.3mm thick clear plastic aligners that snap on over your teeth and are held in place by metal clips on your back teeth. Each aligner has carefully placed pressure points. You put on one and it feels a bit tight against one or two teeth. Over the course of the next 7-10 days, those tight bits push your teeth a tiny bit of the way towards alignment. When the pressure wears off, you change to the next Invisalign aligner in the series. How many you have depends upon the complexity of your case, but the average treatment time is a year.

This means fewer visits to us for tightening.

No messy food issues

You take the aligners out every time you need to eat or drink anything other than plain water, and then you brush your teeth. This keeps the aligners transparent and pretty much invisible when you are wearing them.

Book yourself for a consultation and we can tell you if Invisalign in St John’s Wood will work for you.

You probably know all about how important it is to brush your teeth at least twice a day for two minutes. That’s how long dental research says it takes to remove the film of sticky, bacterial plaque that builds up during the day. But, if you have got wonky teeth, all that brushing may not be reaching the plaque. And if you can’t get at it, it will build up, harden into tartar and give off acids that cause decay and gum disease.

What this means is that in the long run, wonky teeth, with all those nooks and crannies for plaque to proliferate in, tend not to last as long as straight teeth. So, if you want to hang onto your teeth for as long as you can, you need to get them straightened with braces in St John’s Wood.

At Aura Dental, we can help you find the right braces in St John’s Wood to suit your lifestyle, your budget and your realignment needs.

If you are an adult, you will probably want braces that detract as little as possible from your looks. You might be happy with discreet braces in St John’s Wood, such as those from Six Month Smiles, clear aligners, or invisible lingual braces.

Six Month Smiles

These are bracket and wire braces, but the brackets are smaller and made of clear ceramic and the wires are finer and tooth-coloured. You can see these braces, but they blend in with the teeth rather than dominating them. These braces are designed to work on the front six teeth only and the average treatment time for realignment is six months.

Invisalign

These are clear aligners that snap on over the teeth like mouth guards. They are very thin and transparent and when they are in place, they are very hard to spot. The average treatment time is a year and they work best on mild to moderate misalignments.

Lingual braces

These are bracket and wire braces that are fixed to the inside (tongue-side) of the teeth, where they can’t be seen at all. Each bracket is made to exactly fit each tooth and so these braces can be used to correct even very complex alignment issues.

If you look back over time, you will find that people have always done their best to look after their teeth. There are human remains going back 9,000 years or more that have evidence of having had dental work done to them. And, certainly the ancient Egyptians were keen to experiment with ways to straighten teeth.

Now, we have reached a time when braces work really well on all sorts of alignment problems and there are fewer and fewer excuses for wonky teeth. In fact, you rarely see them on millennials.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that more people are having straighter teeth come through naturally; there are as many wonky teeth as ever. The difference is that devices for straightening teeth are more discreet and more of them are designed to work on mild misalignments. Mildly wonky teeth take less time to straighten and can be fixed with devices that can barely be seen, such as Invisalign. In St John’s Wood, at Aura Dental, we are accredited to use Invisalign on our patients, and, they love this tooth straightening by stealth.

Invisalign in St John’s Wood: the lowdown

If you have never heard of Invisalign, then prepare to be a bit surprised. This device is nothing like traditional bracket and wire braces. There are no wires, and only two metal clips on your back teeth. The rest of the device is a very thin plastic tray that snaps on over your teeth rather like a mouth guard.

Instead of having just one device that stays glued to your teeth for months on end, Invisalign is a series of clear aligner trays. You wear each one for 7-10 days before moving on to the next. The straightening comes from precision-placed pressure points within each aligner that gently nudge your teeth one tiny step towards alignment. Once the pressure of each aligner wears off, it’s time to move onto the next one.

At 0.3mm thick, it’s almost impossible to see the aligners once they are in place. Plus, they are removable for eating, drinking anything other than plain water and for cleaning.

To find out more about Invisalign in St John’s Wood, why not come in for a consultation?

Having braces in St John’s Wood will not only enhance your smile but also improve your dental health. At Aura Dental, we have a range of contemporary braces and aligners. Made of lightweight materials and often transparent, these appliances will stay discreet while they do their work. Once your teeth are properly aligned, you’ll have a smile you’ll be proud to show off, and a mouth that’s easier to keep clean.

Avoiding harmful developments

In St John’s Wood, braces give you the opportunity to avoid future oral health issues. Poorly-positioned teeth leave awkward spaces in the mouth. The toothbrush can have difficulty reaching these spaces, which allows food particles and bacteria to build up to harmful levels. Gum disease and tooth decay can result.

As well as this, a poorly-aligned bite means your teeth are under more strain, putting you at risk of injury. Our modern-day braces and aligners will greatly reduce your exposure to these problems, while increasing the appeal of your smile. Having braces in St John’s Wood can improve your overall quality of life.

A range of braces in St John’s Wood

The first stage of your treatment is an in-depth assessment with our dental team. We’ll look at the condition of your teeth and your dental history and find out how you want your teeth to look when the treatment is over. We can then offer you the most appropriate methods of achieving your desired effects.

If the problem is with your front teeth, Six Month Smiles might be the best option. This appliance uses tooth-coloured wires and transparent brackets attached to the surface of your teeth. As the name suggests, average treatment times can be relatively speedy.

Alternatively, Invisalign might be a good option. In this procedure, a dental laboratory produces a series of clear plastic aligners. You’ll wear a set of these fully-customised appliances for 7-10 days, before moving on to the next one. Because each set is a slightly different shape, your teeth will gradually take up improved positions. These innovative St John’s Wood braces are highly discreet and very user-friendly. You can remove them from your mouth when you need to eat a meal or brush your teeth.

Snap judgments based on visual cues and the use of other senses make up the bulk of what we decide about people when me meet them for the first time. All this takes place within a few seconds of meeting. We use those cues to decide if someone is warm and friendly or cold and distant, whether they are happy and if they are open, honest and trustworthy.

Picking up visual information is almost a subconscious action. And while we are busy deciding what we think about that new person, they are doing the same with us. First encounters, and what people decide about others from them, can make or break dreams. Certainly, lack of a warm smile can make an encounter trickier than it needs to be.

If you are too ashamed of your smile to turn it on when meeting new people, they will probably assume you are miserable or unfriendly, even though in reality, you are simply too embarrassed by your wonky teeth. Don’t let yourself lose out on life’s opportunities because you’re too ashamed of your teeth to smile.

At Aura Dental in St John’s Wood, Invisalign is an innovative way of teeth straightening that allows you more freedom during treatment, while at the same time, being so discreet that no one will know you are undergoing treatment.

In St John’s Wood, Invisalign straightens out crooked, over-crowded or misaligned teeth without the use of brackets, bands or wires. Instead, with Invisalign you wear a series of clear resin trays, resembling mouth-guards, to move your teeth into a straighter position.

The Invisalign method means you can avoid the ‘train-track’ look associated with being a teenager. Also, the 3D printed, clear plastic aligners are so thin that, when they are snapped on over your teeth, they become almost invisible, and do not interfere with speech.

Thirdly, in St John’s Wood, Invisalign trays are removable so that brushing and flossing is easy, and you can continue to eat whatever you like. Also, if absolutely necessary, you can remove the aligners for a few hours for ultra-important business or social events (although you should not make a habit of this).