How do you use your smile? It is the way you connect with family and friends? Is it how you brighten up a stranger’s day? Perhaps it’s just for you, when you recognise something joyful or a happy memory pops into your head. Or it could be how you make your way in the world. Perhaps you have a public-facing job, or one that involves a lot of networking.

Whatever your smile means to you, it’s the one tool we all have freely available to us every day, it’s a powerful method of non-verbal communication and how we use it can have far-reaching effects on our lives. Which is why not feeling that it’s okay to smile can be disastrous. Anyone with crooked, crowded or spaced out teeth will tell you that being self-conscious about your smile can put a real dampener on how you relate with others, and how you feel about yourself.

Is this you? Do you believe that, as an adult or a teen with a mild to moderate misalignment of the teeth, that there’s no point in getting braces? After all, who wants to go through 2 years of having metal fixed to their teeth? If you want to feel less afraid to smile, it doesn’t seem the best way to go.

That’s why we offer Invisalign in Clapham here at Clapham South Dental Centre. We want our patients to start feeling better about their smile from day one of treatment. And with these discreet, clear aligners, it’s possible.

Invisalign in Clapham is a different kind of braces system than you may be familiar with. Instead of metal brackets and wires pulling the teeth into position, it uses thin, clear mouth guards to gently nudge the teeth into place over time. Each pair of aligners is custom-made and specially designed to move your teeth.

As the aligners are clear, Invisalign in Clapham is almost invisible: only a professional (or perhaps your mum) would notice you are wearing them. They are taken out for eating and cleaning, so are easy to maintain and to fit into your lifestyle.

Give us a call today and find out how you can benefit from these wonders of modern dental technology.

 

When you book in for a new haircut or beauty treatment, it can be nice to save the big reveal for friends and family and show off the results of your latest indulgence. But when it comes to straighter teeth most of us don’t want to draw attention to the fact that we’re getting braces, even if only because it highlights our less than perfect teeth. Thankfully, you can stealthily straighten your teeth with Invisalign in Clapham, available right now at our friendly practice, Clapham South Dental Centre.

Invisible alignment: how is that possible?

If we told you that we would fix metal brackets onto your teeth and then pull them into alignment with wires, you would probably be quite easily convinced that it would work. But with Invisalign in Clapham there are no brackets or wires, just a series of plastic moulds shaped to the contours of your teeth, called aligners. That really is all it takes to straighten out mild to moderate misalignments.

It works because these aligners are precisely designed with grooves and bumps along their inner surfaces that gently nudge your teeth into position. This level of precision in their design is down to the innovation of 3D printing. So that’s the alignment part.

Now the invisible part. This is down to the aligners being clear, so once they’re on they seem to disappear against the teeth.

Invisalign in Clapham: the treatment process

When you come in to see our Invisalign dentist, we’ll thoroughly check your teeth and surrounding tissues to ensure that we can correct your misalignment with Invisalign. We may take some x-rays too. Then we’ll set about designing your series of aligners based on impressions of your teeth. When your aligners are ready, we’ll show you how to put them on and take them off with ease. That’s one of the best things about Invisalign, it’s removable. So you can pop them off and enjoy your mealtimes and clean your teeth just like you always have.

During your treatment, you’ll pop in to see us so we can check that all is going to plan. Then in 12-18 months, you’ll be done and ready to show off your newly straightened teeth.