Sure Align Orthodontix n Dentistry

19/10/2026

The reel is over. 🎬 (Yes, I see the irony. This one is educational — and it says so.)

NMC (6 Oct) + NDC (14 Oct) 2026: no testimonials, no before-afters, no “best/painless/100%”, no discounts, no paid reviews, no influencer collabs, no unlabelled AI, no filming procedures.

Consent doesn’t save a prohibited post. Your agency’s post is your post. Penalties go up to removal from the register.

Full clause-by-clause decode → carousel on my profile.

Build smiles, not feeds. 🦷🩺

— Dr Ajay Kubavat, MDS (Ortho) · Sure Align Orthodontix & Dentistry, Ahmedabad · Reg. No. A2258

19/10/2026

🎬 The reel is over. 6 Oct: NMC bans testimonials, promotional before-afters, discounts-as-bait, paid reviews, influencer collabs and unlabelled AI for doctors. 14 Oct: NDC does the same for dentists — plus no filming procedures and no giant signboards. Consent doesn’t save a prohibited post. Your agency’s post is your post. Penalties go up to removal from the register. Swipe for the decode → and the roast. Build smiles, not feeds. 🦷🩺

11/10/2026

The photo you didn’t take is the diagnosis you didn’t make.

39 seconds on the side-on smile: what it puts on record, what raters see in it, and what none of these studies has shown.

Every source is named on screen. The full carousel with 17 references follows in my next post.

A change in perspective changes everything.

Dr. Ajay Kubavat
Sure Align Orthodontix n Dentistry, Ahmedabad

02/10/2026

Week three, and your teeth feel a little loose.
Almost every patient notices it. Almost nobody says it out loud — because the fear underneath is “is my tooth going to come out?”
Here is what is actually happening. Teeth do not travel through bone. Bone moves around teeth. A thin ligament wraps every root, and light, steady force turns that ligament into a construction site — bone cleared ahead of the root, new bone laid behind it. While that remodelling is active, the ligament is wider and softer than usual. So the tooth has a small amount of give.
That give is the biology responding. It is temporary. And it is the same story in braces and in aligners.
It has also been measured, not just assumed. In 83 orthodontic patients, incisor mobility was recorded at three stages with a Periotest: it rose by the end of treatment, then fell significantly after the retention phase (Tanaka E, et al. Angle Orthod. 2005;75(1):101–105). Your retainer is what buys the bone that time.
Now the part that makes the reassurance worth anything — what is not normal. Call us if pain worsens day by day instead of fading, if a tooth feels displaced after a knock or a fall, or if your gums bleed, swell or pull away. Those are not “normal give”, and all three are treatable.
Felt the wobble this week and said nothing about it? Say something. One look settles it.
Save this for your next adjustment visit — and send it to whoever in your family is in week three right now.
— Dr. Ajay Kubavat, Sure Align Orthodontix n Dentistry, Ahmedabad
General patient education, not a substitute for examination.

01/10/2026

A research paper claimed an AI model located cephalometric landmarks better than published methods and predicted treatment outcomes better than experienced clinicians.
Eight months later, the journal retracted it.
Here is the number that tells the real story. A different, published method cleared the same 2 mm clinical threshold on a benchmark dataset — then reached it only about 67% of the time when tested on 500 patients from an ordinary clinic.
A benchmark is not a clinic. Any accuracy figure that doesn’t say which one it came from is not yet information.
Full write-up and all citations at the link in bio.
— Dr. Ajay Kubavat — Sure Align Orthodontix n Dentistry, Ahmedabad

30/09/2026

29/09/2026

Searched PubMed for “dance reels increase patients.” 🔍
Zero results.
I’ll keep my feet still. 🕺❌

My brackets are aligned. My hips are still in the planning phase. 🦷

So be honest: would you pick your doctor for the choreography or the diagnosis?
Drop a 💃 or a 🩺 below 👇

29/09/2026

Your braces are never tightened. The wire is changed. 🦷

Most patients arrive at monthly visits expecting a “tightening”. What actually happens is closer to a check-in: we look at how your teeth responded, then change the wire, elastics or ties as the plan needs. Early wires are thin and flexible; later ones are firmer and straighter.

What the evidence says:
• Heavy forces might be particularly harmful for root resorption; evidence supports light forces (Weltman 2010, systematic review of 13 RCTs)
• No “optimal” force level could be extracted from 400+ articles (Ren 2003)
• No reliable evidence that any initial wire material is faster or less painful (Cochrane 2013)
• Vibration devices did not change space closure, duration or visits in a 2018 RCT (DiBiase)

Honest limit: this favours light force for safety; it does not prove light force is always faster.

Save this for your next visit. Share it with someone in braces.
Bend the wire. Not the truth.

Dr. Ajay Kubavat – Sure Align Orthodontix n Dentistry, Ahmedabad

28/09/2026

29 seconds on orthodontic elastics: hooks, vectors, sizes, force decay, and the one habit that makes them work.

The full 19-card carousel with 40 PubMed references is on the profile.

Educational content, not a substitute for an individual consultation.

28/09/2026

2001 me: no Instagram, no filters, no front camera. Just a blue suit, a camera flash, and main character energy before Gen Z had a name for it. ✨
Guess what I was looking at. Wrong answers only 👇