Metal braces are normally the first thought that comes to mind when straightening your teeth is brought up. This is probably because they have been a very effective form of dentistry for many years.

Unfortunately, you may also have to deal with some disadvantages compared to clear braces in Buckinghamshire. With traditional fixed metal braces, they are highlighted with elastics that stand out against your natural teeth.

Fixed braces are also known to be quite uncomfortable for some patients and can create forced shifts in teeth caused by frequent tightening appointments.

With fixed metal braces, you also have to have a change in your diet to avoid damage to your teeth and even avoid hard or sticky foods. They also involve a more complicated dental routine that requires additional cleaning equipment.

These woes and worries can be over at Garden View with our clear braces in Buckinghamshire.

Your future is clear

Clear braces in Buckinghamshire are made of an almost invisible plastic, making them less visible than traditional fixed metal braces. This fact alone is a big reason why so many of our patients have decided to have clear braces, rather than go down the traditional route of fixed metal braces.

How do they work?

At your initial consultation with one of our experienced and dedicated dentists, an x-ray of your teeth is taken. From this we can decide if your teeth are suitable for clear braces in Buckinghamshire.

Once we know your teeth are suitable, several sets of aligners are made, each specifically tailored to the shape of your mouth and teeth. Each set is worn for two weeks before being replaced and they are even very easy to remove for eating and brushing.

At Garden View, we recommended that you wear them FOR 22-23 hours a day in order to achieve the best results.

If you need minor tooth movements or a more complex solution, we can help you. We have many years’ experience that you can also benefit from. So, why not give us a call and start your dental journey to straighter healthier teeth today.

If you’re in need of a straighter smile, there are now more discreet ways to correct your teeth outside the world of traditional fixed metal braces. Our Garden View practice understands that straight teeth are a necessity.

Our patients wish to be successful and approachable and straight teeth can help them. Having a beautiful smile helps our patients by boosting their confidence and providing excellent health benefits at the same time. Instead of wearing chunky metal wires and brackets, you can achieve the beautiful improvements that you’ve been dreaming of with our various clear braces in Beaconsfield.

The future is clear

You’ve probably seen dental patients in the past wearing potentially embarrassing full head gear to straighten their teeth. Thanks to the advances in the modern dental world, we finally have a way to maintain your professional, polished appearance while improving your smile.

These advances have lead us to the utilisation of clear braces in Beaconsfield. They use a series of practically invisible, removable aligners so that no one can tell you’re wearing them. The aligners are custom-made just for you and apply a constant, gentle pressure to glide teeth into the correct position.

You will wear each set of aligners for around two weeks, removing them only to eat, drink, brush, and floss. As you replace each aligner with the next in the series, your teeth will move gradually until they have straightened to their final desired position.

The benefits

With clear braces in Beaconsfield you will experience an immediate boost in confidence knowing that your braces treatment is practically invisible.

You will also experience comfortable straightening from custom-made aligners, rather than sharp metal brackets and wires that can be uncomfortable and even painful.

As well as this, you can still enjoy your favourite foods because of the versatility your clear braces in Beaconsfield offer by being removable.

You can even keep your dental routine simple and effective by removing your aligners to brush and floss your natural teeth.

If this sounds like just what you have been looking for, well look no further and give us a call today to arrange your initial consultation.

At Garden View Dental Care, we want you to have an excellent experience when you come to us for treatment. Whether it’s general dentistry, restorations or getting your teeth straightened, we keep our services up to date and offer you modern materials, equipment, and knowledge.

That’s why when it comes to teeth straightening, we offer our patients in Buckinghamshire clear braces. Clear braces do a great job of straightening your teeth, but without the embarrassment and discomfort that can come from traditional heavy-duty metal braces. Such braces are really only required for serious bite alignment issues.

There are a couple of different systems of clear braces in Buckinghamshire, and one may be more suitable than the other for your particular alignment issues, lifestyle, and budget. Let’s take a quick look at both of them:

Six Month Smiles

These braces look like smaller, clearer versions of traditional braces. They use the same mechanical principles of brackets fixed to the teeth at specific angles, with wire strung between them to pull the teeth into alignment. The difference is that they are designed to work on the front six social teeth only. These incisors and canines have one root, rather than two or three, so they are much easier to move. The gentler forces required mean that the brackets are smaller, and can be made of clear ceramic, and the titanium nickel wires are tooth-coloured. Together they blend into the teeth rather than dominating them. As the product name implies, the average treatment time is only six months.

Invisible aligners

These look like very thin, transparent mouth guards. A series of them is 3D printed. The first is slightly different from how your teeth are now, and the pressure nudges your teeth into alignment rather than pulling them. You wear each aligner for about two weeks before moving onto the next one, getting through somewhere between 12–48 of them. Aligners are removable for eating and cleaning, but discipline is required: you need to wear your aligners for at least 20 hours a day to stay on schedule with your treatment.

To find out more about clear braces in Buckinghamshire, why not come in for a consultation?

These days, unless you have some severe problems with your bite, you can pretty much expect that there is some form of clear braces that will be able to deal with your individual alignment issues.

At Garden View Dental Care, we know that adults who want to get their teeth straightened are going to be looking for clear braces in Buckinghamshire. That’s why we offer both fixed and removable clear braces.

In Buckinghamshire, clear braces are particularly suitable for adults with mild alignment issues because they offer the discretion that people with busy public-facing jobs, or positions of responsibility require. Such people do not want to have to wear braces that evoke images of awkward adolescence, or attract unwanted stares or personal questions.

Fixed, clear braces in Buckinghamshire

This type of braces comes to you under the brand name of Six Month Smiles, so called because it takes on average six months to align the teeth. This brand aims to align the front six social teeth only. These are the teeth that are mostly on display when we talk and smile. Six Months Smiles uses a modern twist on the tried and trusted fixed bracket and wire braces method. As it is only concerned with moving the front teeth, which have fewer roots, the forces required are much gentler. This means that the brackets are smaller and made of clear ceramic instead of metal. They are strung together with fine, tooth-coloured wire, and are much more comfortable.

Removable aligner clear braces in Buckinghamshire

Aligners work on a different principle. They look like very thin, clear, rigid plastic mouth guards. You wear a series of them, each for about two weeks, in an incremental order. The mild mis-fitting of each one is different and used to nudge the teeth along to alignment. Aligners are removable for eating and teeth cleaning. The smooth plastic won’t rub and create sores inside the cheeks. It is important that they be worn for at least 20 hours a day to stay on schedule for alignment.

To find out which system of clear braces would suit you, why not come in for a consultation?

No one likes being stared at by strangers, or being asked intrusive, personal questions when we are just trying to go about our daily business. And yet that is often what happens when people see someone in a business suit with braces on their teeth. It’s the discordancy between what we expect — teenagers wear braces, grown-ups don’t — and what we see.

That’s why many adults would rather go through life with wonky teeth. They don’t want the attention created by wearing braces that dominate their mouths for two or three years.

So, you’ll be glad to know that the belief that braces have to be made of heavy-duty metal and stay on your teeth for two or three years is a mistaken belief that has not been updated in recent years. These days, braces can be much smaller, and more discreet, made of materials that blend in with the teeth, and sometimes they can be almost invisible to the untrained eye.

Discreet alternatives

In Beaconsfield, clear braces are one of our most popular treatments at Garden View Dental Care. Adults who, for some reason, missed out on braces treatments when they were teenagers are taking advantage of the smaller devices and shorter treatment times offered by clear braces in Beaconsfield.

Such changes are possible because very often adults do not need the strong forces and longer treatments times associated with heavy-duty metal braces. This kind of braces are primarily for treating jaw alignment problems, but when the treatment is to correct simple misalignments of the front teeth only, much gentler forces can be used, and treatment can take a lot less time, sometimes a few weeks or months only.

Clear braces in Beaconsfield tend to have smaller, clear ceramic brackets and tooth-coloured nickel titanium wires. One brand, Six Month Smiles, is designed to treat the front six social teeth only and the average treatment time is six months.

Generally speaking, patients will have to wear a retainer after treatment with clear braces in Beaconsfield. This keeps the teeth in place so that they do not try to wander back to where they were before. It can be a night-time retainer, or one bonded to the backs of the teeth.

It’s becoming more and more important to have straight teeth. If you look around at young people’s teeth, hardly any of them have misaligned teeth and jaws anymore. If they have jaw problems, this tends to get fixed, possibly on the NHS, when they are in their early teens. This is the optimum time to get such work done as the jawbones have not yet set hard.

However, many adults are now also taking advantage of the various clear braces in Beaconsfield, available at Garden View Dental Care, to join the trend for well-aligned teeth and jaws.

There are a couple of reasons beyond the desire for looking good for this move towards teeth straightening.

Why is teeth straightening in adults gaining in popularity?

The first reason is that straighter teeth are much healthier than crowded, crooked, leaning or protruding teeth. When the teeth are well-aligned there are fewer places that bacterial plaque can build up without being cleaned away by tooth brushing. This means less chance of decay and gum disease, the two main culprits behind tooth loss. Also, when the teeth are well aligned, the pressure created by chewing is evenly distributed, getting rid of the jaw, head, and neck problems created by uneven pressure.

A clear solution

The trick to getting straight teeth as an adult is to choose clear braces in Beaconsfield from us at Garden View Dental Care. Clear braces are so much easier to wear without attracting unwanted attention and personal remarks.

One brand is Six Month Smiles. These are clear braces in Beaconsfield designed to align the front six social teeth, which are the ones mostly on view when we speak and laugh.

Six Month Smiles are so-called because they take an average of six months to realign the teeth – in fact as little as four months and as much as nine months. They work on the same mechanical principles as traditional metal bracket and wire braces, but the brackets are made of clear ceramic and the wires are tooth-coloured titanium. Both are also smaller and so they blend in with the teeth instead of dominating them. As they are work on teeth with fewer roots than back molars, they require much gentler forces and are therefore more comfortable.