Easier And Faster Teeth Straightening With Invisalign Braces

By Ammy Smith

Every one wants to have beautiful teeth to appear more attractive. Great looking teeth also boost one's self-confidence to a great extent. Modern dentistry offers an effective way to improve the appearance of your teeth through invislaign braces. The traditional metal braces were always there to make the necessary corrections to your teeth to improve the smile. But, they come along with their issues and restrictions. In contrast to that, the invisalign braces offer great flexibity and are more popular among the patients.

But what exactly is invisalign?

Technically speaking, it is a modern solution to facilitate teeth straightening without those metallic wires and braces. Rather, a set of clear, durable, almost invisible aligners, made from transparent plastic, is custom moulded for your mouth. These aligners are placed over your teeth to facilitate their movement to desired positions and improve your smile in the process. You've to replace the existing set of aligners with the new ones every fortnight.

How to get started?

First, it's important to ensure that invisalign is right for you. Most of the clinics that provide invisalign treatment usually offer free consultation on it. Just locate such a clinic near your home or office and walk in at your convenient time. It is important to tell here, invisalign uses a software with 3D imaging technology to let you watch a virtual preview of your smile after successful completion of the treatment. This is almost an invaluable incentive, which will tell what you can expect at the end, even before your treatment starts.

How invisalign is better than traditional braces

Invisalign remains invisible: Unlike the traditional braces, the transparent brackets that invisalign provides, remain invisible in your mouth. Your friends, colleagues and peers will hardly get to know that you're undergoing teeth straightening therapy, unless you reveal it yourself. Even when you smile standing in front of them, they won't see a mouth full of metals. It is because of this factor that the therapy is also referred to as the discreet braces treatment.

Invisalign braces are removable: Unlike the metal braces, the plastic aligners can easily be removed from the mouth, any time, only to slip back again. This allows you enjoy your favourite foods and drinks in one hand, while on the other allows you to maintain optimum oral hygiene through proper brushing and flossing.

Discreet braces cause minimal discomfort: Although invisalign braces can cause slight inconvenience at the initial stages, but people say it's much more comfortable than the traditional metal braces, once that period gets over.

Almost zero chances of allergic reactions: Metal braces are known to trigger allergies in the mouth for some patients. Plastic aligners used in the discreet teeth straightening therapy have almost zero chances of causing such unwanted side-effect.

In addition to the benefits mentioned above, the plastic aligners offer the desired results much faster, as compared to the conventional treatment using metal braces. Teeth straightening in the traditional approach takes about 3 to 4 years, whereas invisalign braces deliver the desired results hardly within a few months. Considering all these factors, the modern approach is steadily gaining popularity over the conventional one.

The author of this article, Ammy Smith, is a renowned   cosmetic dentist in London and associated with invisalign treatment at Wimpole Dental over the years.