If you could get your teeth straightened in half a year or so, and not look like the nerdy kid at the front of the class while you did it, would you make braces a priority for 2019?

Having straighter teeth has several great benefits.

Cleaning

Even mildly misaligned teeth can be difficult to keep clean. Plaque builds up in nooks and crevices where the toothbrush finds it hard to get into. Plaque gives off acids that eat away at tooth enamel and gums, so misaligned teeth are more likely to develop decay and gum disease. This means that these teeth may not last as long as others.

Eating

If you have misalignments, there may be a chance that some of your teeth are bearing more of the brunt of chewing and eating than others. After years of taking all the strain, there is more chance they will crack and crumble in mid to later years of life. Straight teeth work as a team, spreading out the powerful forces that are created by chewing and biting.

Smiling

If you feel good about your teeth and how they look, you are more likely to smile. And every timey you smile, your body releases tiny amounts of serotonin, the happiness neuropeptide, making you feel happier and therefore more likely to smile. It’s an upward spiral.

Also, people respond to smiles with smiles of their own, and feelings of warmth and generosity.

Six Month Smiles

This system of braces uses brackets made of clear ceramic and fine tooth-coloured wires to straighten out the social six teeth at the front of the mouth, the ones most visible when we smile.

The average treatment time is only 6 months, hence the name. These teeth have only one root, which makes them easier to move with gentler forces, so the braces are smaller than your average metal train track braces.

After treatment with us at Farnham Road Dental Practice in Guildford, you will need to wear a retainer for some time while your jawbone hardens around the teeth in their new positions. You can have one bonded to the back of your teeth, or wear a removable retainer at night.

It might seem like we are being a bit previous here, but how is your smile going to look this summer? If you think the opportunities for selfies are endless during the winter months, summer is the time when you might find your smile on the other end of a professional photographer’s camera.

Wedding season will soon be upon us, and there will be endless opportunities for your smile to end up on someone’s mantlepiece, or at the very least, in a photo album. If you are in your late 20s, it might even be the year of the wedding. Most of us have one year when it feels like every weekend one friend or another is tying the knot, so get your smile ready for being recorded for posterity.

One great way you can do this, especially if you are going to be playing an important role in a wedding, is to get your teeth straightened. It’s amazing how even the tiniest misalignments stand out in these days when perfect teeth have become obligatory. But there is a way you can get mild to moderate misalignments of the front 6-8 teeth sorted out in time for the summer wedding season. It’s called Six Month Smiles.

Six Month Smiles

Here at Farnham Road Dental Practice in Guildford, we love the way Six Month Smiles allows our patients to get the straight teeth they have been longing for without the embarrassment of having to go through months of metal train track braces. It’s not that metal braces don’t do a good job, it’s just that they are associated with being an adolescent. And many adults can’t afford to not look grown up while they are at work.

Discreet straightening

Six Months Smiles braces still have brackets and wires, but the brackets are smaller and made of clear ceramic. The wires are finer and coated in a tooth-coloured material, so the whole device blends in with the teeth rather than obscuring them. And these braces only need 6 months on average to straighten your teeth.

What’s not to love? Why not book a consultation to find out more?

How much do you hate the idea of having braces on your teeth? Is it so much that you can only bear to get your teeth straightened if your braces are either completely hidden or almost invisible? Or do you not mind the world knowing you are having braces treatment as long as you don’t end up looking like a cross between a James Bond baddie and a large railway interchange?

If it’s the latter, then, at Farnham Road Dental Practice, we think we have got just the braces for you. They are called Six Month Smiles.

What are Six Month Smiles?

We could call these braces discreet rather than invisible. They are bracket and wire braces, but the brackets are smaller and are made of clear ceramic. The wires are finer and are coated with a tooth-coloured material. All in all, the braces blend in with your teeth rather than totally disappearing from view. Some even say they are rather attractive, like jewellery for the teeth.

Who can have Six Month Smiles?

These discreet braces are aimed at people who want mild to moderate misalignments on their front 6-8 teeth fixing. These teeth are the ones that are easiest to see in the mouth, and they have only one root each. This means that they are easier to move and therefore gentler forces can be used. Gentler forces mean smaller brackets and finer wires, plus more comfort.

How long do they take to work?

As the name suggests, these braces don’t take long to correct your teeth. Depending on your alignment issues, they can take as little as 4 months to do their job, or as long as 9 months, with 6 months being the average treatment time.

What about maintenance

After your teeth have reached their final position, you will need to wear a retainer to keep them in place while the newly formed bone hardens around them. You can have a retainer bonded to the back of your teeth, or you can wear a mouth guard-style retainer at night. If you lose things, go for the first option. After all, you don’t want your teeth to wander out of place after all that hard work.

If you have had enough of living with your wonky teeth, maybe now is the time to get started on the road to alignment. It doesn’t have to take forever, and your braces don’t have to be huge, clunky metal train tracks that take over your whole mouth. Modern braces treatments can be fast and discreet, especially if your alignment issues are related only to your teeth, and not to your jaw.

If you are an adult with wonky teeth, it’s highly likely that your issues are in the mild to moderate bracket of wonkiness. Such issues can be sorted out relatively quickly.

Depending on how your teeth are right now, you could even have them straightened out by early summer next year.

That’s right, getting your teeth straightened doesn’t have to take forever. Here at Farnham Road Dental Practice in Guildford, we have a kind of brace that can take as little as 4 months to realign your teeth. It’s called Six Month Smiles, which is the average amount of time it takes to do its work.

Brackets and wires, but with a twist

Six Month Smiles uses the tried and trusted bracket and wire technology that steadily pulls teeth into their correct positions. However, with this make of braces, the brackets are smaller and made of clear ceramic, and the wire is finer and coated in a tooth-coloured material. As such, the braces blend in with the teeth rather than overwhelming them. They won’t be noticeable from across the room, and as people get closer it will take a while for them to spot your braces. They can even look rather good, like a necklace of glass for your teeth.

Who can have Six Month Smiles?

Here at Farnham Road Dental Practice, we use Six Month Smiles to treat people who want their front 6-8 teeth straightened. These are the teeth most on view when we speak and smile. They have only one root, which makes them easier and quicker to move.

Why not come in and find out if Six Month Smiles are your investment for 2019?

If you wish your teeth were straighter, but are discouraged by the prospect of wearing traditional metal braces, you may be interested in alternative teeth straightening options. Luckily, dentistry has evolved in recent years and there are now many teeth straightening treatment options that are more discreet than metal braces.

If you are conscious about your smile, but do not want to wear braces for months on end, then Six Month Smiles at Farnham Road Dental Practice may be the ideal treatment for you. Six Month Smiles is a fixed braces system that straightens your front teeth in six months or less. Our experienced dentists will examine your teeth and help you determine whether this is the right treatment for you.

How is this treatment different from traditional braces?

In addition to being more discreet than metal braces because they are made of tooth-coloured brackets and wires, Six Month Smiles provide additional advantages. Using traditional and modern teeth straightening techniques, Six Month Smiles braces will try to gently guide your teeth into place, without altering your bite. For this reason, they are more comfortable than traditional braces.

More importantly, treatment with Six Month Smiles braces can also be completed in a shorter period of time than treatment with regular braces. Since these braces focus only on certain teeth, they require less time than metal braces.

Is there any risk of tooth damage?

Straightening your teeth with Six Month Smiles braces is not riskier than treatment with regular braces. The faster movement of the teeth is the result of a very light force for a gentler adjustment.

Are Six Month Smiles braces right for me?

The best way to find out if you are a good candidate for Six Month Smiles in Guilford, is to get in touch with our dental team and schedule a consultation. Most people can have this type of treatment as long as they have mild alignment issues. However, patients with severely crooked teeth and bite problems will not benefit from this treatment.

For more information about Six Month Smiles in Guilford, feel free to call us today and we will book a consultation appointment for you.

Do you want to improve your smile, but are worried about the time required for traditional braces to work? Are you also concerned about the look of metal brackets and wires? Six Month Smiles could be the ideal treatment for you.

At Farnham Road Dental Practice, we appreciate that some patients do not want to wear metal braces for years or they are concerned that other teeth straightening procedures could be too invasive or too expensive. For this reason, we offer Six Month Smiles in Guilford, an effective, safe and affordable cosmetic solution that fits your lifestyle.

Using a combination of traditional techniques and high-quality materials, Six Month Smiles clear braces can straighten your teeth in an average time of just six months. Virtually invisible, Six Month Smiles braces allow you to smile while undergoing treatment.

How does Six Month Smiles work?

Unlike regular braces, Six Month Smiles uses low force to move teeth more comfortably. Many people think that the accelerated treatment means added discomfort, but that is not true. This treatment takes advantage of standard teeth straightening mechanics, but with an emphasis on the cosmetic appearance of your teeth rather than the position of your bite. For this reason, discomfort is minimal as your teeth are gently repositioned.

Am I a good candidate for Six Month Smiles braces?

Six Month Smiles braces are specifically designed to straighten the front six teeth. This type of short-term teeth straightening treatment is appropriate for treating mild dental problems such as mild crowding of the front teeth, closing gaps between teeth, aligning the gum line and alignment of flared teeth. Severely crooked teeth and bite issues can only be treated with regular braces.

Does Six Month Smiles treatment hurt?

When you first have your braces fitted, it is normal to experience mild discomfort, while your mouth adjusts to them. However, this is usually gone within a couple of weeks and can be managed with common painkillers. It is also common to feel some discomfort following adjustment appointments as the teeth adapt to their new position, but this usually goes away after a few hours.

Many adults seek our help to get straighter teeth for cosmetic reasons, but having straight teeth actually makes your whole mouth healthier. Even having minor adjustments to our teeth can help us keep our teeth into later life.

Of course, the cosmetic reasons are still important. Having confidence in the way we look can open many doors to us in our social lives, love lives and even careers.

With modern dental treatments, it’s easier than ever for us to straighten our teeth. Because of the new wave of treatments, we also have much more choice on how we straighten our teeth.

Which treatment you choose mainly depends on how much adjustment you want to make to your teeth. Here at Farnham Road Dental Practice in Guildford, we’re here to help you start your journey to perfect teeth.

Options: cosmetic braces

For those of us who want to straighten our teeth to perfect our smiles, there are cosmetic braces. These treatments generally act faster than traditional braces.

In Guildford, Six Month Smiles can, as the name suggests, straighten your teeth in just six months. This also depends on the amount of adjustment you want and how your teeth react to treatment. Most treatments take between four and nine months, which is much faster than any traditional brace treatment.

Six Month Smiles treatment acts so fast because it focuses on just the front six teeth. These are the teeth that are visible when we smile. Because the rear teeth aren’t involved, the treatment time is drastically reduced.

Treatment is also much more subtle than dental treatment in the past. Six Month Smiles uses clear ceramic brackets and tooth-coloured wires that blend in with the teeth.

Options: aligners

There are more kinds of braces available now than ever. Invisalign treatment uses clear plastic tooth trays that, in succession, change in shape.

The tooth trays are transparent, making them almost completely undetectable and are removable, making meal times much less of a hassle. Invisalign can achieve drastic results without the big impact on your normal lifestyle.

Both treatments can improve your quality of life by giving you a big confidence boost.

Many adults want to have straighter teeth but are put off by the reputation and look of traditional ‘train track’ braces commonly worn by teenagers. These types of braces are the most tried and tested method of straightening teeth, but come with disadvantages.

One of the most common issues people have with traditional braces is how they look when the treatment is underway. They are also difficult to keep clean. Combine these issues with long treatment times (around two years) and you can understand why people are seeking alternatives.

Luckily, due to the huge amount of demand for alternative treatments, there has been a boom in treatments that can offer many different advantages.

Cosmetic braces

For adults who wish to adjust their teeth for mainly cosmetic reasons, there has been a wave of what are known as cosmetic braces. These types of treatments generally have shorter treatment times, and more subtle appliances but can only achieve cosmetic adjustments.

Practices like Farnham Road Dental Practice offer Six Month Smiles. In Guildford, your teeth could be adjusted to perfection in just six months, a huge improvement on traditional braces.

Your treatment with Six Month Smiles is also much more subtle, utilising tooth-coloured wires and brackets. This doesn’t sound like much of a difference, but when the braces are being used, they are hardly noticeable.

How does it work?

Six Month Smiles works so fast because the treatment only adjusts the ‘social six’ – the front six teeth that are visible when you smile.

Because the treatment doesn’t affect the rear teeth, it can act much faster, getting you results in no time.

One of the main cosmetic complaints we hear from adults is that they would like their teeth to be straighter. Now, this is possible with more modern treatments that have much less effect on your everyday lifestyle.

In the social world, confidence is key. Having a warm and welcoming smile could open many doors in our social lives, love lives and even our careers. So, why wait to get the smile you’ve always dreamt of?

Call for an appointment with us at Farnham Road Dental Practice to begin your journey.

In 21^st century Guildford, at Farnham Road Dental Practice, orthodontics has a variety of systems that can straighten teeth, each with its own virtues. It can be hard to know which to choose. Let’s take a look at two of our most popular systems for adults who want simple misalignments corrected: Invisalign and Six Month Smiles.

Invisalign

This is one of the big success stories of the digital age. Invisalign came into being at the start of the millennium thanks to a man who’d just had his teeth straightened and was wearing his overnight removable retainer. He wondered if it would be possible to actually straighten teeth with retainer-like aligners that could be removed for eating and tooth cleaning. And, with the advent of 3D printing, there was suddenly a way to produce precision-made aligners for each patient. Fast forward to 2017 and over four million people across the globe have now had their teeth straightened with Invisalign.

It takes between 12 and 48 aligners to move the teeth, each one an incremental step that doesn’t quite fit, producing the pressure that nudges the teeth gently along to alignment. The aligners must be worn for at least 20 hours a day, so discipline is required for this straightening system. One pleasing bonus for many people is that because Invisalign aligners discolour easily, wearers can only drink water when they are in place, and so often find that by the end of treatment they have lost quite a bit of weight from having to cut out mindless snacking and coffees.

Six Month Smiles

This system makes use of the tried and trusted bracket and wire system, but because the braces are making smaller corrections to the front teeth only, which have fewer roots than the back teeth, gentler forces are required.

This means the brackets can be smaller, and also made of clear ceramic. The wires are thinner too and are made of tooth-coloured nickel titanium. The braces blend in with the teeth rather than dominating them. Six Month Smiles get the done job in an average of six months, and a retainer must be worn afterwards to keep the teeth in place.

Are you one of the many adults in the UK who wish they had straighter teeth? You are? So, how would you feel if someone told you that in only half a year you could finally have those straighter teeth? And what if they also told you that the treatment wouldn’t break your bank balance, or hurt like mad or put so much metal in your mouth that no one could understand what you were saying?

Well, at Farnham Road Dental Practice in Guildford, Six Month Smiles offers all of those things. It is of one of the world’s most popular braces treatments, having taken all the best elements of traditional braces and updated them with both the latest materials and techniques.

If you grew up without getting your teeth straightened, and are now regretting it, or maybe you did and they’ve gone out of alignment again, then Six Month Smiles in Guildford might well be the solution for you.

This discreet braces system is aimed especially at adults like you, whose front six teeth, known as the ‘social teeth’ because they are the ones most on view, need some straightening, but who have no other serious problems with their bite.

In Guildford, Six Month Smiles braces straighten the teeth using discreet fixed braces (which achieve results faster than removable aligners) that consist of clear ceramic brackets and tooth-coloured titanium-nickel wires. The brackets are fixed to the teeth at particular angles and, along with the wires, use standardised mechanics to move the teeth. However, because, with Six Month Smiles the aim is only to straighten the teeth, and not alter the bite, the forces needed are much gentler, and therefore less painful. Gentler forces also mean less chance of damage to the tooth roots.

Because there is no alteration to the bite, the whole process usually takes between four and nine months rather than two or more years. And a quicker treatment means fewer visit to the dentist and therefore a lower cost for you.

Once the teeth have been straightened, you will need to wear a removable retainer to anchor them into their new place in the jaw. If you find that you keep forgetting to put that retainer in, you can have a bonded retainer fitted. This is also invisible.