Hi, my name is Dr. Jason Mount and I want to take a few minutes to tell you about Adult Braces. We have a program here at Mounts Dental Care called “Six Month Smiles”. My experience in the past was that I had a lot of adult patients that had crooked or crowded teeth and they wanted to do something about them, but as soon as I would talk to them about going to see the orthodontist they usually declined. I think mostly because they had the idea that they were going to be in braces for a couple of years, or they just didn’t want to hang out with all the little kids at the orthodontist.
I started doing some research and I wanted to find a program that we could use that was geared specifically towards straightening adults’ teeth. I found this program called Six Month Smiles and it has been fantastic. I want to tell you a little bit about it. What we do with this program is we have brackets just like you do, if you don’t see the orthodontist but instead of having the silver ones that shine when you smile, you’ve got the tooth-colored brackets.
At Mounts Dental Care, the adults we see for orthodontic treatment just want to correct minor issues such as crooked or crowded teeth in a timely manner. We have been using a limited orthodontic program called Six Month Smiles for many years now. With Six Month Smiles we use tooth colored brackets and wires to correct minor issues in usually around six months time. For more information, watch our video!
We do two colored wires so they blend in. Adults that don’t want people to see that they have braces on their teeth that’s what you get. The other nice thing about this is that it’s specifically designed to fix smaller problems in the front of the mouth but we’re not doing comprehensive orthodontic. We’re doing really limited problem-focused orthodontics so with that we have really been able to cut down the amount of time that a person spends in the braces.
Most of our patients end up being in braces for about six months and it’s really great for adults. If you just think about the amount of time that you spent going from one tooth cleaning to the next it’s about six months and those come around fairly quickly, so really you could come in, get the braces on about the time you get your teeth cleaned and about the time you do for your next cleaning the braces come off. We’ve had some really great cases with these. We’ve been able to straighten folks’ teeth. The adults have really loved this program, so if it’s something that you think you might be interested in.
You want some more information about it. Come on in! You can do a free consultation with us. I’d love to sit down with you, visit with you about it, and talk to you about how we can improve your smile.
