Adult Braces Information Posts

Late Feb I had a visit with Dr Levinson at which he said those magic words…”I think it is time to take those braces off!” Well I would have kissed him had he not still had his latex gloved fingers poking in my mouth. I bounded out to the front desk and dutifully made my […]

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 […]