Braces can not only enhance your teeth and appearance, but they can actually also benefit your health! They can be a valuable investment for those who have misaligned teeth, improving your oral health and making you feel confident.
Do I need braces?
You can speak to us about braces if your teeth look misaligned or overcrowded and its making you feel less confident about your appearance. Sometimes this is due to losing your baby teeth too early and having to wait a while for your adult teeth to come through, impacting their development.
Having misaligned teeth can often cause people to continuously bite on a section of the cheek or have difficulty chewing. Braces can help fix this!
What are the benefits of getting braces?
There are a lot of benefits to braces which you might not first think of. Of course, they realign your teeth to give you a smile you’ll want to show off, but they also contribute to better oral health, preventing cavities, gum disease, and a better bite.
- Improving your oral health
Braces improve your oral health by aligning your teeth into a better position. This will means that the teeth will be in a better position for cleaning, brushing and flossing. This lowers your chance of developing a cavity or gum disease, as you’re less likely to have a build-up of plaque.
- Helping digestion
Having misaligned teeth can make it difficult to chew food into small enough bits for the best digestion. Having larger chunks of food can make it slower for the stomach to break down.
Once you have had braces, your mouth will be working optimally to break down food leading to easier and better digestion.
- Improving your speech
Having malocclusion or misaligned teeth might actually be giving you chronic speech issues such as whistling certain sounds. Braces will fix misalignments and potentially fix these sounds, sorting out your speech problems.
- Boosting your confidence
This, for most, is the best outcome of getting braces. When you have misaligned teeth you might not want to show your mouth and often hide your smile – causing you low self-esteem. However, after having braces, you can have a beautiful smile to be proud of. You will feel more at ease when talking, showing your teeth and smiling.
- Preventing jawbone erosion
Mouths which have large gaps between teeth or too much pressure on the jawbone due to a bad bite can actually begin to erode gum tissue and the jawbone. Braces move the periodontal ligaments (the soft tissue between the bone and the tooth) by stretching the nerves and connective tissues, fixing this issue and allowing the bone and gum to rebuild.
If you want to begin your journey to a more confident and healthier smile, contact us today via our cosmetic treatment form and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
