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active orthodontics, removable braces, Invisalign, spring aligner
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Image	Photo Description
	Before and After results from wearing removable dental braces. This patient underwent orthodontic treatment for only one year of monthly visits.
	An Upper Spring Aligner - removable braces - being used to straighten the two upper lateral incisor teeth. A removable spring aligner or Invisalign trays accomplish similar teeth movement in slightly different ways.
	Before and after results from removable orthodontics. Treatment time - three months. This type of tooth crowding could be predictably treated with Invisalign.
	These are removable orthodontic appliances for the upper jaw. PASSIVE: Typically worn at night after fixed braces are removed. This will just hold teeth in their current position. This is also called a teeth retainer or a Hawley retainer. ACTIVE: Worn 24 hours/7 days a week except when eating or at important events. This will physically move teeth into position in about 6 months. This category includes Invisalign.
	These are removable orthodontic appliances for the lower jaw. PASSIVE: Typically worn at night after fixed braces are removed. This will just hold teeth in their current positions. This is also called a teeth retainer or a Hawley retainer. ACTIVE: Worn 24 hours/7 days a week except when eating or important events. This will physically move teeth into position in about 6 months. This category includes Invisalign.
	An active orthodontic appliance straightened these teeth in the lower jaw in six months. Some people find this device more comfortable than Invisalign because it does not cover the biting surfaces of the teeth. We offer our patients all types of removable teeth braces in our practice.
	This lower orthodontic spring aligner will move crooked teeth into proper position in three to six months if worn continuously. It is barely visible when being worn and is removable.
	Removable orthodontic spring aligners -active appliances - are barely visible. They are effective for minor to moderate teeth movement.
	Removable Teeth Braces - before and after pictures. Reshaping the edges of the upper front teeth and bleaching would be a nice finishing touch but the patient liked them as they were. The treatment time was 6 months.
Information about these dental photos In medicine and dentistry "left" and "right" are based upon the orientation of the patient's body and not how they appear in a photograph of a smile. For example, a reference to the upper left teeth will actually appear to be on the right side when viewing a picture of the face and similarly an upper right tooth will appear to be on the left side. Many words in dentistry like oral and mouth have a similar meaning and are frequently used together to help our readers find specific words they best understand. This is particularly important because a majority of our visitors are from countries where English is not their primary language. Maxilla or maxillary refer to the upper jaw. Mandible or mandibular refer to the lower jaw. There are many other similar word combinations used throughout this website because our pages are read by patients and dentists. A few of the most common are discussed here. Tooth decay, tooth cavity and dental caries all mean the same thing. Tooth, teeth and dental are also frequently interchanged as in teeth veneers or dental veneer laminate. Oral rehabilitation and dental reconstruction mean smile makeover. The word for x-ray may be used with or without a hyphen (this is true for other words too) and can also be called a radiograph.

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