It’s here at the business end of the journey that the technical eye of a specialist practitioner amazes me!  These guys can pick the teeniest tiniest adjustment required from 20 paces…OK well maybe they need a closer look than that, but what looks like a two thumbs up from me still needs adjusting to a […]

Part of the problem of misaligned teeth is that they can be more vulnerable to knocks and chipping.  That is exactly what happened with my front teeth that crossed over – the tooth that angled in had a vulnerable edge that the years have not been kind to. With the repositioning to sit nicely beside […]

Quite naively I believed that as I got towards the end of braces I would have less hardware in my mouth, but now that many of the teeth are just about where we want them, it’s important to minimise their opportunity to move – so as well as my recontour I also received new wires […]

Something that I am sure people don’t realise is that braces are the mortal enemy of the toothbrush.  I go from shiny new toothbrush to shaggy dog in about 3 weeks. The problem with trying to brush with a mashed up brush head is that you lose the ability to direct the bristles into the […]