Clear Aligners

Clear aligners are trays, like just a retainer, the clear piece of plastic that fit intimately over your teeth. There's slight changes in those trays that actually push your teeth to a new spot. We make a series of trays anywhere from minimal cases, could be 10 trays, to 50 cases if they're complex trays. Most patients that would like to correct their smile, their teeth, the way their teeth come together are good candidates for clear aligners. You need to be able to wear them all the time, keep up with them, and take them out to clean your teeth after you eat and then put them back. We take a three-dimensional scan of your mouth that way we know where the bone is and the teeth are in the bone and then we take a scan with a digital camera to make a model of your teeth and we will plan the case. We will take where the teeth are now and where the teeth are going to be we move them inside the 3D model, we move them inside the bone to make sure the teeth stay in the bone. While having clear aligner treatment, there are some modifications that you'll make to your lifestyle. One of the main things is, you'll have to take the trays out to eat something and then you'll need to clean your teeth and clean the trays before you put them back in. So the biggest thing I hear is that it's a good diet because it's hard to snack.