Do you have crooked, crowded, and overlapping teeth? If so, then you could benefit from treatment with clear aligners, a cosmetic alternative to metal braces. In today’s blog, your team at Brighton Family Dental Group talks about helping smiles in Brighton, MA, with the Invisalign® system.
The Causes and Risks of Poor Alignment
How do we end up with an uneven smile? For some, factors in childhood, like issues with jawbone growth and development, and the eruption of your teeth, could be a factor. When baby teeth do not fall out on time, this could mean uneven eruption of permanent teeth. Likewise, premature loss of baby teeth and the loss of teeth in the teen and adult years could lead to misalignment issues.
Without treatment, poor alignment can make it difficult to brush and floss thoroughly, leaving you vulnerable to complications like tooth decay and gum disease. Poor alignment could also strain your jaw joints, which leaves you vulnerable to TMJ disorder and bruxism (teeth grinding). Without treatment, you could also feel embarrassed about your appearance, which impacts your overall quality of life. But we can help teens and adults alike with the Invisalign® system.
The Invisalign® System
With Invisalign®, we will provide a series of clear plastic aligners, which fit snugly over your teeth. You will wear a set from the series for about two weeks, usually between 20 and 23 hours each day. As you do, this will gently shift and correct your smile. For most adults, this could offer an even smile in as little as a year. For teens, optimal smiles could be possible in 18 months. These can be easily cleaned throughout the treatment process.
You can also remove them! They can be taken out before you eat, so no worries about food being caught in your orthodontics. Being removable also means you can have a much easier time brushing and flossing your teeth. They could even be removed for special occasions, such as first dates, job interviews, or graduations.
Creating Custom Orthodontic Aligners
Each set in the series is custom-made for your smile. To begin the process, our team will take detailed digital images of your bite with a special wand that has a camera in the tip. This can take multiple images of your smile from several angles quickly and comfortably. We then combine these to create a 3D impression of your bite. With this, experts in a lab setting can design and craft a series of custom aligners.
Talk to Brighton Family Dental About Cosmetic Aligners
We want to help address your smile with our custom orthodontic aligners. Learn more about correcting your uneven smile, by calling us at Brighton Family Dental Group in Brighton, MA, today at (617) 562-5210.
