{"id":721,"date":"2017-09-04T07:30:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T06:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/?p=721"},"modified":"2025-02-05T10:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T10:24:39","slug":"the-physiology-behind-straighter-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/the-physiology-behind-straighter-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"The physiology behind straighter teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The thing with being around teeth all day is that you can tend to become somewhat obsessed with them. Sometimes at Amsel & Wilkins<\/strong>, we find that our passion for a really great smile means that even in our private lives it\u2019s impossible not to notice the state of people\u2019s teeth when we first meet them. \u2018Oh, she\u2019s got quite some crowding going on there and her incisors never really did descend properly\u2019 or \u2018Wow! Now that\u2019s what I call an amazing smile! White but not too white, straight but not overpoweringly uniform teeth.\u2019 Those might be the thoughts going through our minds as we pay for our petrol or chat to new acquaintances at parties.<\/p>\n

\"StraighterSometimes we think, \u2018Now if you\u2019d had your teeth straightened 20 years ago, you wouldn\u2019t soon be needing a visit to the dentist to deal with that gum disease that\u2019s forming from all that tartar that\u2019s built up on your teeth.\u2019<\/p>\n

Never too late<\/strong><\/p>\n

The thing about braces, is that it is never too late to get straighter teeth. The early teens may be the optimum time for sorting out issues to do with misalignments but that\u2019s because the jawbone is still growing and so it\u2019s possible to deal with misalignments in the jaws, where the teeth don\u2019t meet properly. This is a separate issue from wonky teeth, but wasn\u2019t treated as such back in the day.<\/p>\n

Teeth can be moved around in the jaw at any time in life. It\u2019s just a case of applying sustained pressure to the tooth in one direction. After 72 hours of this pressure, the jawbone responds by breaking down bone matter in front of the tooth in the direction of the pressure and building up bone behind it. The thing that takes all the time to move is not the teeth, but the bite. So, in fact, in Banbury you can get straighter teeth in 6 months<\/a>, rather than 2 or 3 years.<\/p>\n

Straighter teeth are healthier teeth because they provide fewer hard-to-clean places for plaque and tartar to build up and harbour the bacteria that lead to gum disease, which causes teeth to fall out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The thing with being around teeth all day is that you can tend to become somewhat obsessed with them. Sometimes at Amsel & Wilkins, we find that our passion for a really great smile means that even in our private lives it\u2019s impossible not to notice the state of people\u2019s teeth when we first meet … Continue reading The physiology behind straighter teeth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-invisalign"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}