Here's a video of our patient Faye Rooney at Swords Orthodontics, discussing her orthodontic problems from her own point of view, and why she wanted treatment with clear braces or Invisalign, and her experiences so far as her ortho treatment begins with us. Since she works as a model, conventional metal braces or coloured braces wouldn't be a practical option.
Faye also explains what it's like to wear an Invisalign aligner and how she notices no difference speaking with it in.
The other day I wrote about when’s the best age to wear braces. It’s a long answer to a short question.
There’s also a shorter answer.
The best age to wear braces is a combination of when you get the most effective treatment and you want that treatment enough to make it effective.
A while ago I was talking about IOTN — the Index of Orthodontic Treatment Need — and I thought I’d go a little bit deeper into the topic today.
And that means we need to go back in time
Sweden, 1974
Saab stopped producing the Draken fighter aircraft, around about the time that it became the first Airfix model I built.
Sweden was also in the middle of changing its constitution. The new arrangements would make the role of recently crowned King Carl XVI Gustav even more ceremonial — so no invading Denmark unless it goes to a vote.
Olof Palme was Prime Minister. Twelve …
It’s a pretty classic question, fairly obvious to ask so I usually explain it before a patient asks me…. but after I know what sort of treatment they need.
It’s a bit glib, but it depends. I think readers might be looking for more than that, and patients certainly need to know more than that, so I thought I’d go into it with a bit more detail. How long treatment takes will depend on a few different things and some of them are more predictable than others.
Firstly, there are different types of treatment for different problems so depending on what’s wrong with the teeth …