A beautiful smile?

I spent much of my teenage years with braces. Great big metal ones which, if you had a very fashionable and funky dentist, could be decorated with multi-coloured rubber bands around the front. No longer a full frontal smile of metal but you could scream it out with a rainbow smile! I hated the years wearing an assortment of them and it took me a very long time afterwards to actually want to smile and not be ashamed when I did. Flash forward to the removal of my braces and sheer relief only to discover within months that actually despite two years of pain and torture and learning how to talk with a mouthful that my teeth had gone back to the way they were before!

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I would of course more happily do this again but I’m not too sure I could cope with the lack of smiles I know it would also include. Call me vain or whatever you like but I don’t think my smile would be as forth coming because of it. So recently I have been more and more interested in the world of hidden braces. Invisalign who are at the fore front of these invisible braces, just look at the Invisalign offers in London, are a revolutionary system for braces. Instead of the dreaded train tracks they use a clear, inconspicuous alternative. Using a system of clear plastic aligners, each is worn for two weeks before being replaced by the next in the series. Custom made each one is slightly different to allow the optimum effect.

I have to say I am going to spend more and more time looking in them and seeing just what I can do to improve my smile. It is after all such a large part of me!  I’m also rather secretly impressed by the fact you can take them out to eat! So what do we think? Worth a go at my old age?