If you have ever broken a bone and had to wear a cumbersome cast for several weeks while the bone heals, then you will know how irritating it can be to have to lug something around with you, and how it can impede your every movement, and how hard sleeping can be too.
Now imagine having something similar in your mouth for months on end. You can’t eat your favourite foods, and what you can eat gets stuck in this thing and takes forever to get out. It’s hard to keep your teeth clean. It creates sores where it rubs in your mouth and to top it all no one is entirely sure what you are saying.
That’s braces for you, the old fashioned sort. Here at One Smile Oral Care in West Malling, Invisalign is a brilliant alternative to traditional metal braces so beloved of American movies in the 1980s.
Invisalign in West Malling not only does away with metal, it also does away with brackets and wires and replaces them with rigid, smooth plastic mouth guard-like aligners. No rubbing on the inside of your mouth with these guys. The plastic is so thin that once you snap your aligners into place they become as good as invisible. No one will spot them.
As for changing your diet and stuck food, you don’t have to worry about this at all because these aligners from Invisalign in West Malling are removable. You just snap them out every time you want to eat, or have any other drink apart from water, and then snap them back in. You get a carry case to store them in while you are eating. People even find that they lose weight with Invisalign because they have to wear the aligners for at least 20 hours a day, which makes endless snacks and cups of coffee almost impossible.
Treatment usually takes about a year. During your treatment, you can expect to wear a series of aligners, somewhere between 12 and 48, changing from one to the next, as each moves your teeth one step nearer their alignment goal, about every two weeks.