How are you on brushing your teeth? Are you super-diligent and able to stand at your bathroom sink with your electric brush and go through all 4 30-second cycles twice a day? Or are you always in a rush and liable to dash off to work or bed after only 2 cycles?
If you are one of the latter kind of tooth brushers, then you might be wondering how on earth you are ever going to cope with the diligent brushing required after every meal with bracket and wire braces. The thing with wearing this kind of device is that if you don’t take extra good care to remove plaque and food after every meal, you can get to the end of treatment and discover that you have white or brown patches under the brackets where your enamel has been corroded.
One way to avoid that is get Invisalign in Weybridge from us at Weybridge Orthodontics.
Invisalign in Weybridge has no brackets and wires, but instead uses clear aligners that look like extremely thin mouth guards. You put them on over your teeth and, because the plastic is thin and transparent and comes all the way up to your gumline, they cannot be seen.
As well as being pretty much invisible, these aligners are removable. You take them out every time you want to eat a meal or drink something that is not plain water. Yes, you do have to brush your teeth and clean your mouth out every time you consume something, but you don’t have to spend extra time picking stuff out from under your device.
With Invisalign in Weybridge, you receive a series of aligners. Carefully placed pressure points inside each aligner press on your teeth to get them to move. You must wear your aligners for at least 20 hours each day to keep up enough pressure to move your teeth.
There are various Invisalign packages, depending on your age and issues. The full version takes about a year, on average, to move your teeth. Afterwards, you will need to wear a retainer for some time to keep your teeth in place while they settle into their new positions.