Clear aligners / Comprehensive Orthodontics

Clear aligners / Comprehensive Orthodontics are a new system of straightening teeth without the use of conventional braces. A series of clear plastic aligners are utilized to create tooth movement. Moving teeth with removable aligners is not new. However, the computer program, which can generate a series of aligners with small changes is the new part.

Treatment time with Clear aligners / Comprehensive Orthodontics can vary, but generally speaking, treatment is completed faster with Clear aligners / Comprehensive Orthodontics vs. treatment with traditional braces. Please recognize, however, that the duration of your Clear aligners / Comprehensive Orthodontics treatment is ultimately dependent upon your specific treatment needs; moving more teeth with more complex movements will naturally take longer than moving fewer teeth with simple movements.

Clear aligners / Comprehensive Orthodontics is designed for correcting minor teeth rotations, shifts, spacing problems and crowding. And while there are many, many use cases for it, we can’t use Clear aligners / Comprehensive Orthodontics in cases where significant and complete movement of all the teeth is indicated. One of the best features of using Clear aligners / Comprehensive Orthodontics is that the aligners are clear, so that people won’t know that you are in orthodontic treatment, and when you smile for a picture, you won’t see metal braces.