Nowadays, it’s becoming more and more noticeable if your teeth are wonky. Everyone under 40, it seems, is getting theirs straightened, and if you are one of the few people who has not yet got around to straightening out a mild crossover, twist or lean, you are going to stand out from the crowd, but not in a good way.
Fortunately, getting straighter teeth is easy with us at Wimbledon Dental Care in Wimbledon, where we use Six Month Smiles, a great system for correcting mild to moderate alignment concerns on the front teeth.
The front 6 teeth are known as the ‘social six’ because they are the teeth that get the most views when you speak or smile. If you’ve got something going on with these teeth, no one is going to miss it. That’s why you might not much like smiling, or you might laugh with your hand over your mouth. Neither is much use when it comes to feelings of spontaneous joy, which is a shame, especially as a really good smile releases serotonin, the body’s feel-good chemical.
How to get Six Month Smiles
To find out if these are the braces to help you get straighter teeth, you need to come in for a consultation with us and if they are we start off by taking impressions of your teeth, along with some photos. These go off to the Six Month Smiles laboratory, where they make the braces, calculating the angles of the brackets and so on.
We then fit the braces for you and you come back to us about once a month for a check-up and any adjustments needed.
When your teeth are aligned and we take the braces off, you might want to celebrate with a teeth-whitening treatment and/or repairs to any minor imperfections in your teeth. You will walk out having had a mini smile makeover and be ready to smile with full power.
You will need to wear a retainer for some time afterwards, as newly aligned teeth are inclined to wander if not held in place while the bone settles down around them.