If you have teeth that are a bit wonky, you may think you need to get them realigned by an orthodontist in Liverpool, but do you really need to go to all that extra expense? An orthodontist in Liverpool is a dentist who has completed their five years of training to become a general dentist and then gone on to complete two or three years more postgraduate study and training so that they can be registered with the General Dental Council as a specialist.
It used to be that only an orthodontist in Liverpool could treat people with wonky teeth, but advances in orthodontic technology has made the measurement of teeth for braces and then the fitting of them easier to do, which means that general dentists can now also treat people who have mild to moderate misalignments, using certain brands of braces such as Invisalign, Six Month Smiles and the Inman Aligner.
Measuring up
The way these devices work is that someone like our own Dr Jeanine McGinty, the cosmetic orthodontist in Liverpool at Liverpool Smile Studio can use modern hand-held scanners to take pinpoint accurate measurements of the inside of your mouth, including your teeth. These scanners are far more accurate than the impressions made with dental putty that every dentist used to have to use. The scanners take hundreds of photos of the teeth and gums and this information is relayed to a computer programme which, in real time, can build up a 3D image of the teeth and gums on a nearby monitor.
The cosmetic orthodontist in Liverpool can look at the teeth from every angle and then send this digital information off to the manufacturers of which ever brand of device is chosen. The manufacturer can create the right braces, calculating the angles at which the teeth need to move, as well as the distances. They then send back the braces, which the cosmetic orthodontist fits.
With some devices, such as Invisalign, the progressive movements of the teeth are achieved through using a series of aligners, one after the other. This means fewer visits to the dentist for progress check-ups.