clear aligner therapy

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.302 For straightening your teeth, there are multiple options. 00:00:03.070 --> 00:00:06.306 Nowadays, most patients would prefer to have something clear, 00:00:06.373 --> 00:00:07.341 something you can't see, 00:00:08.275 --> 00:00:10.611 as compared to the traditional metal brackets. 00:00:11.411 --> 00:00:15.215 We provide treatment to multiple patients with clear aligner therapy. 00:00:15.415 --> 00:00:20.387 Clear aligner therapy is a series of clear retainer-looking, 00:00:20.687 --> 00:00:22.289 we call them aligners. 00:00:22.489 --> 00:00:25.025 They wear them most of the day except for whenever they eat 00:00:25.092 --> 00:00:26.960 or if they drink anything other than water. 00:00:27.027 --> 00:00:29.496 Clear aligner therapy, not everybody is a candidate, 00:00:29.663 --> 00:00:33.467 but I would suggest to you that probably at least 90% of patients 00:00:33.534 --> 00:00:36.904 are probably good candidates for clear aligners. 00:00:37.104 --> 00:00:40.007 Patients typically want to know, "How long is this going to take 00:00:40.073 --> 00:00:41.542 to do clear aligner therapy?" 00:00:42.242 --> 00:00:45.045 The short answer is, "Well, we're all slightly different," 00:00:45.245 --> 00:00:46.280 but I would suggest to you 00:00:46.346 --> 00:00:49.650 that the average is approximately 15 months or so of active treatment. 00:00:49.850 --> 00:00:52.719 One of the benefits of clear aligner therapy 00:00:52.786 --> 00:00:57.324 as compared to, say, traditional braces, is the ease of cleaning your teeth. 00:00:57.524 --> 00:01:01.428 You simply remove the aligners, and you floss 00:01:01.495 --> 00:01:03.931 and brush just as you normally would. 00:01:04.131 --> 00:01:06.967 For eating, one of the nice things about clear aligner therapy 00:01:07.034 --> 00:01:09.937 is that you take the aligners out when you're eating. 00:01:10.437 --> 00:01:13.407 Therefore, they're not getting stuck in the wires and the brackets 00:01:14.174 --> 00:01:16.343 that you would if you had traditional braces. 00:01:17.010 --> 00:01:19.479 Clear aligner therapy has been shown to be just as effective 00:01:19.546 --> 00:01:24.585 as the traditional brackets and wires for most cases.