For mildly misaligned teeth
If you got through your early years without the dentist suggesting that you needed braces, chances are that you were lucky enough not to suffer from severe alignment issues with either your bite or your teeth. However, you’d have to be extremely lucky not to have a little bit of misalignment; hardly anyone’s teeth come through perfectly. Most of us have a bit of a twist, a lean in or out, a cross-over, or a tooth that didn’t quite make it all the way down.
Back in the day, no one would have thought anything more of such minor alignment issues, but here we are in 2018, when perfect teeth are becoming mandatory, and you could well be one of the many people who’d like to get that little alignment problem sorted out, if only you could find a quick and easy way to do so that wasn’t going to make your teeth look like the insides of a cutlery drawer.
Well, here at Forest Dental in Loughton, we think we have got the answer to your orthodontics issues. We use Cfast, which is a quick, easy and discreet way of straightening mild misalignments on the front 6 teeth. In the dental profession, these are known as the ‘social 6’ because they are the ones that people get to see the most of when you speak, eat or laugh.
Fortunately, they are also the ones with only one root; the ones at the back have 3. Having only one root to move makes realignment quicker and easier to do with gentler forces. You could find that you have got rid of the wonky look within a matter of only 8 weeks, for example. The average treatment time is 5 months.
Cfast braces are bracket and wire braces, which give more predictable movements than clear aligners. The clear ceramic brackets are cemented onto the teeth and linked together with tooth-coloured wires. The tightness of the wires and the angle at which the brackets go onto your teeth are what get the teeth to move.
Once your teeth are in their correct position, you will have to wear a retainer for some time to keep them in place while everything settles down.