Invisalign Teen – Jacksonville, FL
Giving Your Teen a Straighter Smile Without Metal
If you think your teenager is like you when you were their age, guess again. While traditional braces with metal brackets and wires were considered “cool” during your day, today’s teens want a solution that keeps their treatment discreet and unnoticeable to their peers. After all, we are living in the days of social media and selfies! If your child needs orthodontic help to straighten their teeth or close unwanted gaps, Invisalign Teen might just be the right solution for their needs. At Ortega Orthodontics, our team can have you and your teen seeing a healthier, more beautiful smile in less time than with regular metal braces. Call our office today to schedule a consultation.
Why Choose Ortega Orthodontics for Invisalign Teen?
- A customized approach to care for your child’s individual needs
- Holland is a dual-trained prosthodontist and orthodontist
- Digital impressions that eliminate the need for cold, messy dental putty
How Does the Process Work?
When you and your teenager arrive for your initial consultation, Dr. Holland will evaluate their smile to determine the severity of the problem as well as check for any possible indications that Invisalign Teen may not be the right treatment option. If your child’s gap is too wide or bite is too misaligned, traditional braces might be the only way to achieve desired results; however, in most cases, Invisalign Teen is a great solution for teenagers.
He will then begin to map out a treatment plan and take digital impressions of your teen’s smile. Using the iTero digital scanner, it eliminates the need to capture impressions with cold dental putty that is often quite messy. These digital images create a model that is used to create your smile step-by-step as it moves through treatment. It will also help in the creation of your teen’s clear aligners.
Once we receive the trays in our office, you and your child will return to receive the aligners. Equipped with a small blue indicator toward the back of the aligner, this signals you and our office that it’s time to switch to a new set of trays.
Frequent dental visits will be necessary not only to provide new aligners but to also check on the progress your child’s teeth are making, and should they break or lose one of their trays, we are happy to provide free replacement aligners.
You and your teen can expect to see a new and improved smile anywhere between 6-15 months depending on the severity of the problem at the start of treatment. As long as they wear their aligners the designated amount of time each day, which Dr. Holland will provide, there should be no delays in treatment.
What Are the Benefits for Teenagers?
Apart from the fact your teenager won’t have to worry about wearing metal braces to school, here are some additional benefits they will experience by choosing Invisalign Teen:
- Increase comfort with no irritation to their soft tissues (i.e. cheeks, lips, gum, etc.)
- Customized aligners that fit their individual needs
- Flexible treatment with removable aligners, making it easy to eat, drink, and clean their teeth and trays
- Faster results
- Easy to clean
Differences Between Traditional Invisalign and Invisalign Teen
- Invisalign Teen not only corrects alignment issues, but it can also move the roots of your child’s teeth.
- There are small indicators on Invisalign Teen aligners that help young patients remember when to switch out their trays. Unlike traditional Invisalign that requires much responsibility on the part of the patient to remember when to swap out their aligners.
- Invisalign Teen is great for children who have growing teeth.