to address the issues of oral health because it
removable aligners fitted over your teeth. Your
impacts on general health and quality of life. But
dentist will change the aligners every two weeks
for the next set of aligners. As you replace
each aligner, your teeth will gently move –
If you can’t bear the prospect of the old metal
little by little, week by week – until they have
train track braces and think you’ve missed the
boat when it comes to sorting out overcrowded,
misaligned teeth or teeth that are widely spaced
You can take the aligners out and brush your
national treasure Spike Milligan’s poem
- you’re wrong! With Invisalign treatment you can
teeth as normal. Food won’t get stuck around
now discreetly straighten your teeth and achieve
your braces and you won’t have to spend time
cleaning around difficult metal brackets or wires.
Aligners can be removed for your main meal, so you don’t have to alter what you would normally
‘The generation now passing into older
Discoloured, yellowing, crooked teeth are
eat, or worry about breaking your braces on hard
ageing. They are the teeth Spike Milligan made
age increasingly has highly restored
the butt of his joke, not the teeth proudly
dentitions and complex oral health
displayed in the perfect, white, straight smiles
What’s more, a virtual 3D treatment plan
of George Clooney (51),Monica Bellucci(47),
needs, which have a substantial impact
(ClinCheck treatment plan) shows the series of
President Obama (50), Rebekah Brooks (44),
on general health and quality of life.’
movements your teeth will go through over the
Carol Vorderman (51), Yasmin Le Bon (47),
course of the treatment. This allows you to see
Julianne Moore (51) or Salma Hayek (45). We
After a full dental examination including X-rays
upfront what your teeth are expected to look like
and taking photographs, your dentist will send
impressions of your teeth to the Invisalign
The major oral health problems of the ageing
Corporation in California where they are laser
A confident smile and increased self-esteem
generation with the issue of how to feel well
“heavy metal generation” were recently
scanned. The technicians then manufacture the
aren’t the only benefits of correcting your
as we age, and feeling well is not only about
highlighted by our own Professor Jimmy Steele,
aligners to your dentist’s prescription for you.
smile with Invisalign — your oral health can be
treating physical disease. It’s about good
Dean of Newcastle University Dental School.
The aligners are made out of clear plastic and
mental health, self -esteem and how we feel
The generation now passing into older age
are very thin so that people will not notice that
increasingly has highly restored dentitions and complex oral health needs, which have a
you are wearing them and you do not worry
substantial impact on general health and quality
about people noticing that you have braces.
of life. An association has been found between
Invisalign treatment involves having a set
the number of oral health problems experienced
of about 20 custom-made nearly invisible,
(including pain in the mouth, difficulty in chewing
or swallowing and xerostomia) and worsening
‘Aligners can be removed for your main meal, so you don’t have to
treatment for you. Of course, there is no
eat, or worry about breaking your
obligation to proceed with the treatment.
braces on hard or sticky foods.’
Avoidance of foods that are difficult to chew can
lead to nutritional deficiencies that constitute
risk factors for cardiovascular disease, cancer
and other systemic problems. The presence of microflora in the mouth, caused by poor oral
hygiene, has also been linked to aspiration
will receive free teeth whitening bleach
pneumonia, a leading cause of morbidity and
if they bring in a copy of this article to
mortality in elderly care home residents.
Of course the “Heavy metal generation” needs
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