Smile-O-Dontics

12/10/2023

Say No to DIY Aligners

When it comes to aligning your teeth, taking the DIY route with aligners can be a risky business. Let me help you understand why you should say no to DIY aligners and trust your Orthodontist for aligner treatment.

What Are DIY Aligners?
DIY aligners, often advertised online or through social media, promise a convenient and affordable way to straighten your teeth at home. They claim to cut out the middleman (the orthodontist) and save you money. But, there's more to the story.

The Risks of DIY Aligners
While the promise of convenience and savings is enticing, DIY aligners come with a host of potential problems:

1. Lack of Professional Supervision: DIY aligners lack the expert oversight of an orthodontist. Without a professional guiding your treatment, you risk misalignment, discomfort, and even damage to your teeth.

2. Oral health hazard:- Without proper diagnostic records and precise treatment planning, trusting DIY aligners for your teeth alignment could be a big gamble. It could turn out to be a hazard for your teeth and oral health.

3. One Size Doesn't Fit All: Each smile is unique. DIY aligners offer a generic solution, and one-size-fits-all rarely works in orthodontics. A tailored treatment plan is crucial for success.

4. Unpredictable Outcomes: DIY treatments can lead to unpredictable results due to lack of regular monitoring and these companies will not take responsibility of your case when the treatment results are not as predicted.

Why choose Orthodontists for your aligner treatment?
Orthodontists are specialists in aligning teeth and jaws. Here's why you should say yes to professional care:

1. Expertise and Experience

2. Personalized care and customised treatment plan

3. Importance given to overall oral functions and health of teeth and gums.

4. Proven and Long lasting results

Your smile is too important to take risks with. Say no to DIY aligners and say yes to Orthodontists!

10/10/2023

Right age for your child's first visit to an Orthodontist

Worldwide all the associations of Orthodontists recommend that the right age for your child's first visit to an Orthodontist is around 7 yrs.

Let's understand why you should take your child at such an early age:-
Your Orthodontist will do a thorough clinical examination and check:-
1. All the milk teeth present and the spacing between them.
2. How the back teeth meet while chewing.
3. Position, size and growth of the upper and lower jaws.
4. Evaluate with an x-ray whether all permanent teeth are present.
5. Swallowing and tongue posture.

All this information will help your Orthodontist predict future problems in teeth alignment and jaw growth. Your Orthodontist may suggest:-
1. Certain preventive and interceptive treatments to prevent future problems in teeth alignment.
2. If there is a discrepancy in the growth of jaws, your Orthodontist can take advantage of the growing phase in the kids and help to redirect the growth of the jaws in a favourable direction with certain appliances since
all the kids are in their growing phase at 7 yrs and a lot of growth of the jaws is still left.
3. In most instances if everything looks fine, your child may not need any treatment.

Hope this information helps you to know the importance of timely Orthodontic check up for your kid.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the comments section and l will be happy to answer.

06/10/2023

Orthodontics for all ages!

Yes, you read that right. It's never too late to get that perfect smile you always desired.

Let's break this myth today that braces are only meant for kids and teenagers. You can align your teeth and flaunt a beautiful smile at any age.

Your Orthodontist will
1. Do a thorough clinical assessment to check the health of your teeth and gums.
2. Advice few x-rays to evaluate the health of the bone that supports your teeth.
3. If everything looks fine, then are good to go ahead with the Orthodontic treatment with braces or aligners to straighten your teeth.

If you any further questions, please feel free to ask in the comments section.

05/10/2023

HAPPY NATIONAL ORTHODONTIST DAY
to all my Orthodontic colleagues and friends!

This was the day when the Indian Orthodontic society was formed by the pioneers of Indian Orthodontics. For all your braces and aligner treatments, always trust a qualified and IOS endorsed Orthodontist in India.

Extremely grateful to be an Orthodontist 🙏

04/10/2023

Here we come to the end of our Orthodontic treatment journey!

The last phase - Retention phase

This is the most critical phase of your Orthodontic treatment journey and also the most neglected part of the journey by many patients.

This is the phase where your Orthodontist will either give you removable retainers or fixed retainers or both. The retainers help the teeth to maintain their new position and allow sufficient time for the bone around the teeth to become strong enough to hold the teeth in the new position.

For more details or any questions, please feel free to leave a comment and l will be happy to help!

04/10/2023

This is the grand finale of your Orthodontic treatment journey!

It's your day to go out and flaunt your beautiful smile and steal the spotlight!

30/09/2023

Let's understand the next few steps in your Orthodontic treatment journey!

Have any questions?
Please feel free to ask in the comments section!

29/09/2023

Ever wondered what goes into creating that beautiful smile with Orthodontic treatment!

Let me take you through the first 2 steps of your Orthodontic treatment journey..

These are undoubtedly the two most important steps in all successful orthodontic treatments.

Having said that, l always wonder how do the various direct to consumer aligners, which are in fashion right now, do justice to their customers by skipping these essential steps of correct diagnosis and treatment planning.

If you have a fall or an accident, would you call a company and ask them to send you a leg brace and start wearing it without consulting an Orthopaedic doctor and without getting an x-ray done??

Do let me know your thoughts about it in the comments!

And yes, stay tuned for the next steps in your successful Orthodontic treatment journey..

28/09/2023

Let me help you understand who is an Orthodontist!

22/03/2022

23/01/2022

Much needed action taken by the DCI and the Maharashtra Dental council against DIY Aligners, the biggest oral health hazard in current times for all the gullible patients who fall prey to such marketing and advertising gimmicks.
It's published today in the TOI. Hope this creates awareness amongst public and they make better decisions regarding their dental health in future.
Teeth alignment is a highly specialised treatment requiring high levels of skills, expertise and most importantly close monitoring at regular intervals to check if things are going as planned. All this is not possible in the DIY model of teeth alignment which is not told to the patient.
An Orthodontist is a person who has undergone vigorous training for 3 yrs after finishing BDS to become a Master in teeth alignment.
Wahi hai right choice baby... aha!! 😊
Choose wisely, say no to DIY Aligners

06/08/2021

Think twice before treating yourself or your loved ones with DIY Aligners.
God gives you only one set of permanent teeth,
Don't ruin it by choosing DIY Aligners
Seek professional Orthodontist to get your teeth alignment done!