Achieve Your Perfect Smile
With Our Braces orthodontic-bracesAt Angel Orthodontics, we offer a variety of orthodontic treatments, including different types of braces. If you want to realign or straighten your teeth for that perfect smile, you’re in the right place.
While regular metal braces are still widely used, clear braces and lingual braces are becoming increasingly popular, along with removable orthodontic appliances, such as Invisalign ®, which can be used for mild misaligned and crooked teeth cases.
Upon your first visit to our Angel Orthodontics practice, you will get an initial consultation with our expert orthodontists, advising you on which braces are the perfect match for you. Here, we provide the basics about the kinds of braces available and what they do for you.
You might need braces if
- Your teeth are crooked, and your confidence is affected
- Your jaws are in a position that creates uncomfortable sounds or makes chewing troublesome
- Your teeth are misaligned, which can cause irritations such as biting your cheeks or tongue
- Your adult teeth haven’t appropriately developed as you lost your baby teeth too early
- You have a protruding or recessed jaw
Removable Braces
These are used to move and straighten your teeth using gentle tipping. They can tip the crowns of your teeth but do not so much change the position of the roots.
They are used in combination with other orthodontic devices such as springs, screws and bite-planes to help with mild cases of cross bites, deep overbites and alignment of mild crowding.
Invisalign Braces
Invisalign treatment consists of transparent removable plastic aligners worn over the teeth. They are almost invisible-removable-transparent-braces. Invisalign is made with 3-D computer imaging technology, and it allows you to view your virtual treatment plan when you start to see how your straight teeth will look when your treatment is complete. It is not suitable for everyone, which can be established at your initial consultation if this is the method best suited to give you a perfect smile. Typically, each aligner is worn for approximately two weeks before moving on to the next aligner, as long as your teeth have moved into the correct position. They should only be removed when eating, drinking, brushing, and flossing. You’ll visit the practice every six weeks to ensure your treatment progresses as planned. Total treatment time is usually 9-15 months, and the average number of aligners worn during one course of treatment is between 18 and 30, but both will vary from case to case. Learn more about Invisalign or visit their website at http://www.invisalign.com.
Functional Braces
Some dental problems that orthodontists are trained to deal with involve correcting jaw disharmonies using dentofacial functional applications with fixed braces and combination orthodontics. In younger, still-developing patients, functional appliances can better balance the jaws, achieve good facial muscle function, and create natural proportions.
Functional appliances are available in many forms, such as Twin Block, Activators, Bionators, and Frankels, to name only a few of those available at Angel Orthodontics. After your initial orthodontic assessment, we can advise which functional appliances work best for your requirements.
Orthodontic assessments can be done from age six but are predominantly conducted when 10-11, as the treatment has to be timed with the growth spurt. These appliances can be designed to not only move teeth but also correct the alignment of the jaws which hold the teeth. The most common objective is to convert an underdeveloped lower jaw.
Functional appliances can sometimes be used alone to correct an orthodontic problem but are often required in combination with another orthodontic treatment, using available appliances and fixed appliances.