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Keep your bright smile with these brushing tips 0

Bright smile 

Brushing your teeth is not a chore. It’s the key to a happy and healthy smile, and no one wants dull and unclean teeth. Especially when bad oral hygiene can lead to bleeding gums, bad breath or worse, your teeth falling out (yikes!) Truthfully, very few of us brush our teeth as well as we could, as easy as we might think it is.

5 ways straight teeth boost confidence 0

straight teeth

Beauty is defined by how we look to other people. However, your confidence is defined by how you feel about yourself. Maybe you haven’t realised it yet, but when you’re hiding your teeth or avoiding smiling in photos it’s because you’re self-conscious about your smile.

How does orthognathic surgery fix my bite? 0

orthognathic surgery

When your bite or the position of your jaw is too severe, orthognathic treatment will be required. After this, your teeth will be straighter and jaw will be correctly aligned. This also changes the shape of your face. Continue reading this blog to learn about the orthognathic treatment process and how orthognathic surgery fixes your bite.

Smile your way into the New Year 0

New Year smile | Manchester Orthodontics

Do you go by the phrase, New Year, New Me? Well how about New Year, New Smile! A new year is usually time for lifestyle changes and new diets that people often tend not to stick to. However, orthodontic treatment is permanent* and comes with visible results. Often having a positive psycho social affect too.

Why is chocolate a safe treat for those with braces? 0

Chocolate safe for braces? | Manchester Orthodontics

Generally, chocolate is a safer treat for those that have braces as it is consumed in one go, a bag of jelly sweets tends to be consumed over a period of time. Jelly sweets are sticky in nature and often coated in sugar, this then traps around the orthodontic appliance and is tricky to remove. With eating the jelly sweets over a period of time it doesn’t allow the teeth to recover in between a meal or snack.  As a rule, we would like our teeth to be exposed to 3 acid attacks per day. An acid attack occurs when we eat or drink something. Drinking water or tea/coffee with no added sugar is a good way to stay hydrated so are not to be included within the amount of acid attacks but, snacking and a drink of fruit juice or a carbonated drink would be.

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