Business dress codes can be terribly formal. Some companies insist that women wear skirts and dresses, others require a uniform. Certainly, if you have to dress smartly for your job and your job requires you to deal with the public, or you are in a management position, wearing something on your teeth that people associate with adolescence may not do you any favours.
Small wonder then that in West Malling, Invisalign is proving to be an incredibly popular way to get your teeth straightened. At One Smile Oral Care, Invisalign allows our patients to get their teeth straightened without the whole world knowing about it.
In West Malling, Invisalign offers people the chance to gain the smile they have always wanted, by using clear plastic mouth guard-like aligners rather than brackets and wire braces that are fixed to the teeth.
How it works
In a free consultation with us at One Smile Oral Care in West Malling, Invisalign makes use of 3D scanning to take detailed accurate measurements of your teeth and gums. It uses them to recreate your mouth digitally and from that it plots how your teeth can be straightened. You can see them move into position on the screen in front of you.
If you decide to go ahead with treatment, we send all that information off to the Invisalign lab in the USA, where your set of aligners will be 3D printed. Depending on what needs doing, between 12–48 aligners will be printed. The first is only slightly different from how your teeth are now. When you snap it into place over your teeth, the pressure from those differences will start to move your teeth. When the pressure wears off, in about 2 weeks, it will be time for the next aligner.
Treatment takes around a year for most people. You must wear your aligner for at least 22 hours a day, but you can remove it to eat and drink, to clean it, and to clean your teeth. As the plastic is so thin, at about 0.3 millimetres, no one will ever notice you are wearing an aligner and it won’t interfere with your speech.