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As dentists, we hope that braces won’t forever be associated with those awkward adolescent years and cumbersome metal appliances, but at the moment they still are. In fact, it doesn’t matter how old you are, you can still get your teeth straightened. It’s just that you can only get your jaw realigned up to about the age of 18 when the bone sets hard. That’s why we tend to see many more young teenagers than adults wearing braces. But also because despite adult braces having been around for a while, adults don’t want to look like teenagers, especially if they are in positions of responsibility and work with the public. But, if you come to us at Aura Dental, you will find there’s much more to braces in St John’s Wood than metal and micky-taking.

Braces in St John’s Wood for adults tend to be much smaller and more discreet than kids’ braces. We have a range of such braces to choose from, and some are even so discreet that they are as good as invisible.

Invisalign

These are braces, but not in the traditional sense of brackets and wires cemented onto the teeth that pull teeth into alignment. Instead, these aligners resemblance bite guards. The transparent plastic tooth trays at only 0.3 millimetres thick hug the teeth so closely that once they are in place, they are very hard to spot.

You receive a series of these, and wear each one in turn. Each aligner is slightly different in shape than the previous one, with carefully positioned pressure spots to nudge your teeth along the path to alignment. You wear one for a week to 10 days before swapping it for the next in the series.

As well as being pretty much undetectable, these braces in St John’s Wood are also removable. You must wear them for 20–22 hours a day, but you take them out for eating, drinking anything but plain water and cleaning. This gives you a lot more freedom food-wise and makes tooth brushing far less of a hassle.

To find out more about braces in St John’s Wood, book a consultation.

If you are thinking about getting your teeth straightened, you are probably also thinking about all the time you’re going to have to spend picking food out of your braces and fending off intrusive questions. Well, worry no more! Teeth straightening can be an entirely private affair with standard cleaning routines when you choose Invisalign in St John’s Wood.

Sounds too good to be true, but it’s not. At Aura Dental, we offer Invisalign in St John’s Wood because it takes much of the hassle out of wearing braces as well as the embarrassment.

Clear aligners

Unlike traditional bracket and wire braces, which are bonded to the fronts of the teeth, Invisalign in St John’s Wood uses clear plastic aligners, which look like mouth guards. They have specific pressure spots that press the teeth into movement.

The process

When you choose Invisalign, we start with a consultation, during which our accredited dentist makes pinpoint accurate measurements of your mouth and teeth using a hand-held scanner. This translates into a picture of your teeth on the screen, and a computer programme will show you how your teeth can be moved into alignment. So, you get to see how your teeth will look before you even begin treatment. It’s a great inspirational tool!

Your aligners

Your aligners are manufactured in the USA using 3D printing. You will get a series of aligners; how many generally depends on the extent of your problems. You start with the first aligner and work your way through the series, wearing each one until the pressure wears off, in about one to two weeks. The aligners are only 0.3 millimetres thick and when they are in place, they cannot be seen by the casual observer.

Eating and cleaning

The great thing about Invisalign is that you can take them out for eating and drinking anything other than plain water. In fact, you must, so that they don’t discolour. You can eat whatever you like, but you must brush your teeth before putting the aligner back in. You must wear your aligners for 20–22 hours a day if you are to stay on schedule with your treatment.

How long does it take to get that lovely straight-toothed smile you’ve always hankered after? Probably not as long as you believe. The beliefs about braces in St John’s Wood are usually based on stories of wearing braces back in the 1980s, when treatments were cumbersome to wear and took forever to complete. They were almost always stories about kids who had had to get their jaws realigned so their teeth would bite together correctly. This takes a lot longer than just getting a few wonky teeth realigned.

Realigning wonky teeth still takes time, teeth can only move so fast, but mild misalignments take only a few weeks to months to correct rather than two or three years.

Along with shorter treatment times, braces in the 21^st century have evolved to be much more discreet than their forebears. They don’t need to be as heavy duty-looking when they are making more moderate adjustments using gentler forces. So, fixed braces have smaller brackets and thinner wires. Some are also clear or tooth-coloured and look almost more like jewellery for the teeth than straightening devices.

But, there is one more straightening device that doesn’t even look like braces in St John’s Wood. It’s called Invisalign.

Invisalign

Invisalign looks more like a mouth-guard than braces. It is a very thin, 0.3 millimetre, transparent plastic tooth tray that snaps on over the teeth and is secured to the back ones with discreet metal clips. Once it is in place, Invisalign is so thin that it disappears and all but the keenest observer will fail to spot it. It’s also so thin that it won’t interfere with your speech, and the smooth plastic won’t rub inside your mouth.

Unlike braces, which are tightened to produce tooth movement, Invisalign aligners have carefully placed pressure points that nudge the teeth gently into alignment. You wear a series of aligners to produce movement, each one taking one to two weeks to do its work. You can also remove them for eating and cleaning.

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

When you decide to take the plunge and get your teeth straightened as an adult, you probably aren’t going to want to include endless conversations with strangers about your braces as part of your treatment. Neither are you likely to want to spend ages picking bits of food out of your braces in your lunch hour. Just the opposite, in fact. If that sounds like you, then you are going to love the idea of Invisalign. In St John’s Wood, this revolutionary way of straightening teeth is available from your trusty dental team here at Aura Dental.

We just love this way of straightening mild to moderately misaligned teeth, and we think you will too. When you have teeth straightening with Invisalign in St John’s Wood, you will be able to get straighter teeth without anyone realising what you are up to. This can be a real bonus if you have a public-facing job, or one that requires you to act with authority.

The innovation behind Invisalign

Invisalign is different from the usual bracket and wire braces that we mostly associate with teeth straightening. Instead of having the device cemented to your teeth, you will be given a series of rigid, transparent plastic mouth guard-like aligners. These are carefully manufactured to specifications taken from digital scans of your teeth.

The pinpoint accurate scans are fed through a computer programme that charts the path that each of your wonky teeth needs to move along, and, if you have more than a few, in what order they need to move, in order to become aligned. Then, a series of aligners are 3D printed to fit your teeth, but with pressure points carefully factored in. You wear each one for up to two weeks and then move onto the next.

The aligners are so thin that, when they are snapped on over the teeth, they become almost invisible. That’s one plus. The other is that they are removable for eating, drinking and cleaning.

Come and find out how Invisalign in St John’s Wood can help you and take the first step towards a more confident smile.

Braces can be such a faff. There they are, stuck on the fronts of your teeth for months on end, collecting your breakfast, lunch and dinner between the brackets and wires and rubbing on the inside of your cheeks. Of course, it’s all worth it for the lovely straight smile you get at the end of treatment, but what if you didn’t have to go through all that fiddling about with floss and brushes, or give up eating some of your favourite foods while you were having treatment with braces in St John’s Wood?

Well, now you can. Here at Aura Dental, we offer all the usual bracket and wire braces, even some that can barely be seen once they are on the teeth, but we also offer a system that has been revolutionising treatment with braces in St John’s Wood. It’s called Invisalign.

What is Invisalign all about?

You may well have heard of Invisalign. After all, it’s been on the market since just before 2000 and over 4 million people have now received Invisalign treatment. But you may not have seen it on anyone. That’s good. That’s how it’s meant to be. When people are wearing these very thin plastic mouth guard-style aligners, they are almost impossible to spot. They are moulded to the teeth using pinpoint accurate measurements from the Itero digital scanner. These measures are fed into a computer and used to plan treatment with a series of aligners that are manufactured using 3D printing.

Invisalign aligners have carefully placed pressure points inside them that nudge the teeth along to correct alignment. The average treatment time is a year. Another big plus with this system is that the aligners are removable for eating, drinking and tooth brushing, which means that you don’t have to change your diet while you go through treatment. You can even leave them out for special occasions of a few hours.

If Invisalign is not for you, at Aura Dental we have plenty of other braces in St John’s Wood, such as Six Month Smiles and Quick Straight Teeth. Why not come in for a consultation and find out how we can help you get the smile you’ve always wanted.

Image is key for many people in the work place. And that means that more and more of them are seriously considering getting their teeth straightened. This is especially true for people in public-facing jobs such as teachers, receptionists, beauticians, police officers, as well as those for whom part of their work involves being filmed or photographed. But with image being key, teeth straightening can be a catch 22 situation. You want to get your teeth straightened to improve your image, but you can’t go through months of straightening because you need to look good at work. Enter Invisalign in St John’s Wood – the answer to every image conscious, wonky-toothed person’s prayers.

If you are one of those people who want teeth straightening in St John’s Wood, Invisalign is available from us at Aura Dental. Not every dentist offers this treatment, which involves being specially trained and certified by Invisalign.

But, at Aura Dental, we think Invisalign is such a great way to straighten teeth that we couldn’t wait to add it to our menu of treatments in St John’s Wood. Invisalign can straighten most mild to moderate misalignments, which is what most adults have, while also being almost invisible and not adding extra hassle to teeth cleaning regimes or diet.

How does Invisalign work?

This system is a completely different way of aligning teeth that took the idea of the mouth guard-style retainer (something you have to wear at the end of treatment to keep your teeth in place until they settle in to their new home) and added carefully planned pressure spots to move the teeth. Instead of adjustments being done to one device fixed to the teeth, Invisalign creates the progressive movement with a series of clear plastic aligners that snap on over the teeth. You wear each one for a week or two and when the pressure’s worn off because the teeth have moved, you start wearing the next one.

The plastic is so thin that it can’t be seen once the aligners are in place and they can be removed for eating and cleaning.

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