Give the Gift of a Better Smile

You want a better smile, but you don’t want to have a bunch of metal in your mouth for 18-24 months. However, you can get that better smile without the metal. This holiday season, give the gift of a straight smile by gifting your loved one Invisalign. Custom-made for each patient, these series of clear, yet powerful aligners can straighten your teeth virtually invisibly. You can say it’s a Christmas miracle! Find out how Invisalign treatment work and how it can benefit you!

Benefits of Improving Your Smile

Want to make a change to your health now that the new year is coming near? Try focusing on your oral health. Not only is this an area that you can improve on, but it’s one that you can help others out in as well. Even though the United States is not a third-world country, there are still alarming rates of oral health diseases. In fact, oral health diseases like tooth decay and gum disease are the most chronic diseases Americans face.

You know tooth decay by the term “cavities”, and yes they are actually considered to be a disease. Your teeth are meant to be permanent, but with cavities, a part of your tooth dies and you can’t get it back. This happens because of how you eat and how well you take care of your teeth. When you eat, sugars in your foods and drinks mix with mouth bacteria. That mixture creates acidic plaque, which then sticks to your teeth. The acid in it will break up minerals in your teeth and will kill parts of your tooth enamel, which is what the decay is.

Once that decay happens, it spreads like an infection. Your gums are no better off either, as acidic plaque that sits along the gum line is very irritating to your soft-tissue gums. They start to turn red, they bleed and they become swollen and inflamed. If you don’t brush and floss your teeth enough, the gums will start to pull away from the teeth until tooth loss happens. The worst part is that these oral health issues can happen very easy with crooked teeth. Teeth that aren’t straight are much harder to clean. You may not even be able to reach areas with a toothbrush or with floss, and they simply decay. That is when orthodontic treatment should happen.

How Is Orthodontic Treatment a Great Gift?

If you have a family and are trying to decide on a great gift idea, consider giving orthodontic treatment a chance. Studies show that most people want a better smile, and especially one that is beautiful, straight and white. Up to 87% of people are even willing to forego things they want for a year or more just to be able to get braces. Straight teeth are that important to people.

Orthodontic treatment can help both adults and children get a better smile. In children, bite and alignment may be off. When jaws don’t line up, the teeth may grow in at crooked angles. That makes it much more likely that a child will have problems with speech, eating, biting and chewing. The adult teeth will likely come in crooked or they will come into the mouth in the wrong place. Crooked teeth in childhood can lead to quite severe issues in adulthood. However, that is why child orthodontics exists. Children can correct bite and alignment issues. Once the permanent teeth are in, they can then straighten those new teeth.

Studies show that correcting oral health issues isn’t all that orthodontic treatment can do. In surveys conducted by companies such as Align Technology—or the makers of Invisalign—they found astonishing benefits of getting orthodontics for a better smile:

• Those with straighter teeth were 45% more likely to get a job, even as teens.
• You’re 58% more likely to be perceived as more successful, wealthy and healthy.
• Those who have straighter teeth take care of them better, and because of it, they have their permanent teeth for more years.
• 72% of people are more likely to trust someone with straighter teeth.
• Those with straighter teeth have more confidence in every setting studied. A better smile is proven to make people smile more and show off their smile to others.

Invisalign & Invisalign Teen

Many people want straighter teeth without metal braces, which is why we offer our patients Invisalign and Invisalign Teen treatment. Invisalign is a series of clean aligners that are firm and that can shift your teeth into a straight smile. At your consultation, digital images help us map out the shape of your mouth. We then digitally create custom aligners that are physically made for you. You receive new aligners each week that will slowly shift your teeth into a better smile.

The best part about the aligners is that they are made out of transparent material. You can wear them all day long (20-22 hours a day) and no one will know. You can easily take them out to brush and floss your teeth like normal, which you can’t do with any orthodontics attached to your teeth. Patients that play sports can play like normal, as there isn’t a risk for mouth injuries with the orthodontic appliance. Wind instruments can still be played as well, as the aligners can be removed for that activity and others such as eating and drinking. It’s the easiest way to straighten the teeth and something you can get for everyone in your family.

Reap the Benefits Today

It’s not too late to get Invisalign for you or members of your family. Making the decision to get orthodontic care takes you one step closer to a healthier mouth for life. It can help improve your child’s social life and confidence both in school and out of it. It can bring you all the benefits of perception that we mentioned above. If you want to know more about the Invisalign & Invisalign Teen process, call Stonebrook Family Dental today at (303) 872-7907!