Adult braces are increasingly common as people strive for perfect smiles, but one concern that makes a lot of people think twice is the length of time many orthodontic treatments take.
This is part of the reason why Six Month Smiles are such a tantalising prospect for many people.
Rather than spending a year or more with a fixed brace treatment or potentially close to a year with a removable brace or Invisalign, Six Month Smiles can provide the same results in half or even a quarter of the time.
The reason for this is priorities; Six Month Smiles only adjusts the teeth that appear when you smile and does not make major adjustments to your bite or mouth. The focus instead is on cosmetics and it is seen as much as an alternative to veneers or crowns as it is an alternative to braces.
It is also an alternative to clear aligners which also primarily focus on straightening smiles rather than fixing major issues with a person’s bite. The main difference is that in most cases Six Month Smiles is a faster solution.
If the main issues involve crowded teeth, have gaps between them, overlap each other, are rotated out of alignment or are crooked, Six Month Smiles can typically fix these problems.
However, if there is severe overcrowding, a misaligned bite or a crossbite (where the lower teeth rest in front of the upper teeth, these are issues that will typically need more substantial work than the Six Month Smiles treatment can offer.
This is also why Six Month Smiles is typically not offered to children or teenagers; in both cases, orthodontics are focused on treating bite issues before they get worse later in life, which means they need to use more substantial and often more visible types of braces.