In a span of about six weeks can straighten your teeth with orthodontics six teeth are straightened, the four upper incisors and molars two, getting a beautiful smile.
Fashion magazines claim actor Tom Cruise and television shows such as Ugly Betty have made it acceptable for grown-ups to wear dental braces. Meanwhile, surveys say a Hollywood smile puts you on the highway to a job promotion and a better love life, while health experts reckon that having straight teeth is the only way to ensure they will be kept in working condition late into life.
It’s certainly a look many of us desire – a recent study by the British Orthodontic Society revealed 45 per cent of adults are unhappy with their teeth and 20 per cent would consider having some form of treatment.
But actually sporting a set of train tracks on your teeth is as socially awkward as it has ever been. I should know, having worn braces for two years during my teens to straighten my goofy front teeth. It was awful and I was bullied relentlessly.
It was thrilling to finally have straight teeth, but in the Eighties people weren’t automatically given a retainer to make sure teeth didn’t move back into their misaligned position. Sure enough, by my late 20s, my teeth had started to cave in again. In my wedding photos, my smile is marred by the two vast tombstones swallowing up half of my lower lip. By my mid-30s, I looked like Nanny McPhee.
It was partly to do with ageing, as dentist Dr Anoop Maini explains. ‘As we age, the lower jaw shrinks, pushing the teeth closer in together and crowding them. The facial muscles change in tone and start to droop – in turn changing muscle pressure on teeth – which forces them to become crooked. With a misaligned bite, teeth will grind and chip away at each other, crack… continue reading
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