Invisalign Clear Aligners
What is Invisalign?
- Invisalign offers a convenient and comfortable alternative to traditional braces. It is an innovative system, using a series of nearly invisible, clear, plastic removable aligners that you change every week.
- Each aligner is specifically designed and individually manufactured for your teeth. As you replace each aligner your teeth will move, little by little, week by week, until they have straightened to the final position prescribed by your orthodontist.
- The aligners are comfortable and less visible than traditional metal braces making it a popular choice for adult patients. Invisalign is ideally suited to adult patients whose life-style or work commitments make it difficult for them to wear more visible conventional fixed appliances.
Benefits of Invisalign
- Made from a clear, custom made plastic, which makes them virtually invisible when being worn.
- They are removable and can be taken out for eating and brushing, therefore not affecting your oral health (unlike the risk of decalcification with fixed appliances).
- Custom made from a clear material which makes them virtually invisible while being worn.
- They are removable and can be taken out for eating and brushing, therefore not affecting your oral health and reduces the risk of decalcification from fixed appliances.
- Custom made aligners are comfortable to wear with no jagged edges.
- Wearing Invisalign aligners will not affect your lifestyle; you can continue to play sports and musical instruments, and meet people socially and for business as they are very low-visibility.
- Invisalign are proven to give good results for patients all around the world and sometimes they have been found to be faster than traditional orthodontic appliances.
- Possibility of remote-monitoring using Invisalign Virtual Care.
What it means to be a Platinum Invisalign Provider
If you’re considering Invisalign as a treatment to straighten your teeth, then you will no doubt want to go to an expert in Invisalign. At M-Brace orthodontics, our expertise has been acknowledged by Invisalign by granting us a Platinum Provider status.
As a patient, our status as a Platinum Provider offers you reassurance that our orthodontic team are among those who have treated the greatest number of clients using Invisalign‘s revolutionary clear braces system.
Having this distinction means that from the moment you step through the door you know you can trust us. How your teeth and your smile look can have a tremendous impact, so knowing that you are dealing with professionals dedicated to providing the best care gives you extra peace of mind.
iTero Digital Oral Scanner
We design your custom-made Invisalign aligners by taking precise measurements of your teeth using an advanced iTero 3-D Digital Scanner. This process creates 3D impressions of your teeth without the need for messy and uncomfortable impression materials.
The benefit of this system means we can use this digital scan to virtually plan your treatment so you can visualise how your teeth will look when you finish.
What are the different types of Invisalign?
- Invisalign Comprehensive
Used to treat the majority of orthodontic cases, ranging from moderate to severe malocclusion (when your upper and lower teeth don’t align); the treatment takes between 12 to 18 months to achieve the ideal result. - Invisalign Lite
Used to treat cases with minimal malalignment of the front six teeth; results can be achieved in approximately six months. This treatment can be less expensive than Invisalign Comprehensive as it is used for less severe cases.
When can Invisalign be used?
Aligners are most commonly used in cases where teeth can be aligned without needing extractions. Routine aligner treatments include:
- Mild to moderate dental irregularities.
- Crowding which can be corrected with a mild to moderate expansion of the dental arch (the curve in your mouth round which your teeth fit).
- Crowding which can be corrected by reducing the tooth width using interproximal reduction or slenderising (where some of the out tooth enamel between the teeth is removed to make the tooth slimmer).
- Mild spacing issues.
The following cases are examples of when an aligner treatment may require the use of additional techniques to achieve an ideal result:
- Severe crowding and / or treatments that require tooth extraction.
- Treatments that require complex tooth movements.
- Problems that reflect an underlying discrepancy in the size or position of the jaws..
