Getting your teeth straightened involves having metal brackets cemented to the front of your teeth, and these are strung together with thick wires that pull your teeth into shape. It usually takes a couple of years, right? Well, no, not necessarily. There is another way to straighten teeth in Leybourne: Invisalign.
You may have never heard of Invisalign in Leybourne, and why should you have if you have not investigated teeth straightening before? Invisalign has, however, been around for more than 20 years now, and over the past few years has really come into its own when it comes to realigning the teeth.
What makes Invisalign so different from traditional straightening methods? Well, it all comes down to using aligners that look like mouth guards rather than brackets and wires. They were the brainchild of a student at Stanford University. He was lying on his bed one night wearing his removable retainer, a mouth guard-style piece of equipment that keeps the teeth in place once they have reached their correct position.
This student started thinking how much easier life would have been if he’d been able to use something like a retainer to straighten his teeth instead of struggling for months with brackets and wires, which make it harder to eat and are harder to keep clean. It was from this that Invisalign was born.
How Invisalign works
Invisalign is great for mild to moderate misalignments. You receive a series of clear aligners, and you wear them in order, starting with the first one. This matches the alignment of your teeth as they are now but has built-in pressure points to start nudging them a tiny way along the route to alignment. Once the pressure wears off, in 7-10 days, you put in the next aligner, and so on through to the last one. You keep your teeth in place after that with a removable retainer, or one that’s bonded to the backs of your teeth.
Invisalign in Leybourne is popular because it is removable for eating and cleaning, and also because, once the ultra-thin aligners are in place, they are almost impossible to see. Find out more here at One Smile Oral Care with an Invisalign consultation.