If you have a more severe case of poor alignment, then you need to seek care to help your smile look better and enjoy better health and function too. To do so, we can offer care with our braces. In today’s blog, your team at Riverside Dental Group talks about straightening smiles with traditional and esthetic braces.
The Oral Health Concerns Related to Misalignment
How should you consider straightening your smile with braces? When you have crooked, crowded, and overlapping teeth, this can make obvious impacts on the appearance of your smile, and could even be a source of embarrassment. But poor alignment also causes trouble for the health and function of your bite. Poor alignment can strain your jaw joints and leave you vulnerable to painful disorders like TMD and bruxism (teeth grinding). You could also have a harder time brushing and flossing thoroughly, which leaves your bite more vulnerable to tooth decay and gum disease. But we can help by straightening your smiles with traditional or esthetic braces!
Traditional Options
With traditional braces, we will attach a metal bracket to the front of your teeth. We then connect a portion of a thin arch wire to each bracket with a band. During periodic visits to our office, we will adjust tension in the arch wire, which helps shift your teeth. Over a period of about two years, this can correct misalignment, including cases too severe for clear aligners and retainers. You then wear a mouthguard for a few years at night to keep your teeth in position as the jawbone reforms around the new positions of your teeth.
Esthetic Orthodontics
Our team can also offer an esthetic alternative, one in which we choose clear or gold wires, and one that involves brackets and even bands that can be clear or fun colors of your choosing. This esthetic option is often popular for our teen and adult patients, limiting the appearance of your orthodontics. If you have any questions about how we straighten smiles with traditional and esthetic braces, or if you want to schedule a consultation with our team, then contact our office today to learn more and get started!
Riverside Dental Group Offers Traditional and Esthetic Orthodontics
Our orthodontics can help shift uneven smiles and offer a more attractive appearance. To learn more about correcting poor alignment, then please call:
Riverside Dental Group at Magnolia in Riverside, CA at (951) 689-5031.
Dental Associates of Moreno Valley in Moreno Valley, CA at (951) 697-6800.
Riverside Dental Group at Woodcrest (951) 776-9001.
Oasis Family Dental in Temecula, CA at (951) 695-2290.
Dental Associates of Riverside in Riverside, CA at (951) 369-1001.
Dental Associates of Corona in Corona, CA at (951) 273-9580.
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