Treatments
Straighten Your Smile
The Power of Traditional Braces
Traditional braces (metal braces) are what you might imagine when someone says they are having their teeth alignment corrected. Made up of two distinct pieces, small metal brackets that attach to the teeth and a long metal alloy wire that runs through each bracket, traditional braces are the tried-and-true method for correcting teeth alignment.
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Ceramic Braces for Discreet Alignment
Subtle and Stylish Orthodontic Solution
Ceramic braces, also called clear braces, are one of the most aesthetic braces available today. Many patients prefer them as they use clear or tooth-colored ceramic brackets to correct a patient's teeth.
Ceramic braces use translucent brackets or braces that attach to the surface of a patient's teeth in conjunction with similarly colored wires and rubber bands to provide maximum discretion for those concerned about how traditional braces may affect their appearance.
Smile Transformation with Invisalign®
Invisible Alignment for Your Smile
For those looking for discrete orthodontic treatment, clear aligners are the best alternative to traditional or ceramic braces on the market today. They are transparent, removable orthodontic devices made from plastic that are used to adjust teeth.
Invisalign® uses a series of clear, removable, and comfortable aligners that no one can tell you are wearing. Made with 3D imaging technology, Invisalign® aligners prioritize comfort as they gently correct your teeth.
They are a more visually pleasing and comfortable alternative to traditional braces. No metal brackets or wires means you spend less time getting adjustments and fewer sores or abrasions on your cheeks or gums!
Learn about 3M Clarity Aligners, another clear aligner used by Shine Orthodontics.
Smile Transformation with 3M™ Clarity™ Aligners
Invisible Alignment with Clear Aligners
3M™ Clarity™ Aligners are clear aligners that are designed to create a perfect fit for each patient. These multi-material aligner systems let you choose how to start, adapt, and finish your treatment for a straight and beautiful smile that is all yours.
Famous for a flexible 5-layer material, 3M™ Clarity™ Aligners Flex are recommended for rotation and proclamation. Likewise, the 3M™ Clarity™ Aligners Force is made from a rigid and time-tested material that is ideal for expansion, torque, sequential bodily movement, and segmental intrusion.
Learn about Invisalign, another clear aligner used by Shine Orthodontics.
Instantly Begin Your Smile Transformation
Healthy Smile for Same-Day Braces
Why wait for the smile you deserve? At Shine Orthodontics, we offer same-day braces so you can start the exciting journey to a healthy smile TODAY!
After your initial consultation, you can get braces that day. Why wait for weeks or months after your first visit? You want healthy teeth, and Shine Orthodontics can give you braces today.
Early Orthodontic Checkups
Detect Orthodontic Problems Early
Proper oral health needs to start early for the best results. At Shine Orthodontics, we understand the importance of catching orthodontic issues before they become major concerns.
Our early ortho checkups are designed to identify potential problems in children aged 7 or older in Chillicothe, Maineville, and Lebanon. By addressing these issues sooner rather than later, we can lay the foundation for a healthy and confident smile that lasts a lifetime.
Orthodontic Care for Early Childhood
Early orthodontics, also known as Phase I Orthodontics, is performed when your child has baby teeth and adult teeth. Early treatment is important for correcting skeletal, dentoalveolar, and muscular imbalances.
Shine Orthodontics sees patients as young as 7 and can correct oral issues before they become long-term health problems.
Orthodontic Treatment Options for Teens
In adolescents, we begin evaluating crooked teeth, over/under bites, and jaw issues, for long-term oral health. Your teen is still growing and now is the perfect time to begin treatment.
The duration of treatment is shorter for teenagers because their teeth are more easily movable. On the other hand, treatment for adults might take longer to achieve adjustments due to the closure of growth plates.
Investing in Lifelong Oral Health
We understand that it can be stressful to decide when to begin orthodontic treatment for your teen. That is why we provide you with all the information you need upfront and complimentary exams for new patients.
Orthodontic Treatment for Adults
Straight Teeth for Any Age!
Oral health is important for everyone, no matter their age. If your teeth are crooked, you have an overbite or underbite, or you are experiencing issues with jaw alignment as an adult, then braces might be right for you.
Poor dental health can lead to long-term issues that include pain, discomfort, problems, difficulty chewing or talking, and increased difficulty caring for your teeth and gums.
It’s never too late to receive orthodontic treatment.
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Transform Your Smile with Jaw Surgery
If your orthodontist recommends jaw surgery in conjunction with your orthodontic care we will work closely with your oral maxillofacial surgeon to prepare you for treatment. This collaborative process is essential to give you the best results possible, as it ensures complete and continuous care from your dental professionals.
Oral Health Through Jaw Surgery
Enhancing oral health and function often involves a dynamic partnership between orthodontics and orthognathic surgery, with orthognathic procedures aimed at addressing misalignments of the upper and lower jaws.
It begins with orthodontic preparation using braces or other orthodontic modalities prior to treatment to ensure teeth are appropriately positioned for surgical correction.
Your orthodontist will also play a role in maintaining alignment after your procedure to maintain the corrected position of the teeth and jaws during the healing phase.
Mouthguards for Protection and Care
Essential Protection for Your Smile
Mouthguards play a crucial role in shielding your teeth and gums from various potential risks. Whether it's nighttime teeth grinding, athletic activities, or specific dental concerns, Shine Orthodontics offers tailored mouthguard solutions to keep your smile safe.
Safeguarding Your Smile
At Shine Orthodontics, we prioritize your smile's well-being. Our range of mouthguards ensures that you can maintain a healthy, confident smile in various situations. Let us help you select the perfect mouthguard solution to preserve your oral health.
From custom-fit options to specialized nightguards and braces mouthguards, our expert team is here to guide you toward optimal protection and comfort. Don't compromise on your smile's safety – choose Shine Orthodontics for your mouthguard needs.
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Retain Your Smile with Retainers
Essential Role of Retainers
After braces or other orthodontic care, retainers play a key role in keeping your teeth in their new position. As teeth naturally tend to shift back after orthodontic treatment, wearing a retainer as directed by your orthodontist is crucial.
Retainers gently apply consistent pressure on your teeth, preserving their corrected alignment. This phase helps your teeth and surrounding structures adapt to the changes from orthodontic treatment, ensuring a lasting result.
Partnering for Your Smile's Maintenance and Longevity
Your retainer maintenance is a partnership with your orthodontist. Should you lose, break, or chip your retainer call us to schedule a digital scan and make any adjustments. At Shine Orthodontics, we're committed to securing your orthodontic achievements. With proper retainer wear, your beautiful smile remains steadfast over time.
Preserving Proper Tooth Spacing
The Role of Space Maintainers
Space maintainers are essential for keeping the proper spacing between the teeth if your child loses a tooth early. When there is a gap in our teeth, there is a tendency to want to take up that space and the other teeth tend to shift until there is no room for an adult tooth to move in. Space maintainers help preserve proper distance between your child’s teeth so that when their adult teeth grow in, they have adequate space.
Types of Space Maintainers
Let’s look at the two types of space maintainers that may be right for you.
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Unilateral maintainers: These band and loop maintainers are ideal if your child loses their primary 1st molar early.
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Bilateral space maintainers: These are space-holding appliances that can preserve the space for prematurely lost primary teeth until the permanent teeth have erupted, such as the lower lingual holding arch and the Nance button.
Impact of Skipping Space Maintainers
If your child loses a tooth and does not get a space maintainer the result will likely be crowding of their permanent teeth. In cases of severe crowding, permanent teeth may need to be removed in order to make sure there is enough room for proper alignment. If space is lost, it often cannot be regained without removing permanent teeth. Another consequence of not maintaining space is impaction and the impacted teeth may need to be removed or surgically exposed.
Ensure your child's bright smile by getting a space maintainer today to prevent crowding and the potential for removal of permanent teeth or surgical exposure.
Breaking the Finger-Sucking Habit
Promoting Healthy Oral Development
Finger-sucking can be a habit that is unsanitary and detrimental to your child’s long-term oral health. It can lead to orthodontic issues such as overbites, open-bites, gapped teeth, and more.
Finger-sucking changes the shape of the upper jaw as it grows and can lead to many issues in the adult dentition which can lead to the need to remove adult teeth or jaw surgery to correct.
Shine Orthodontics is here to help you correct your child’s finger-sucking.
Addressing Thumb-Sucking with Effective Strategies for Change
Three Methods for Stopping Finger-Sucking
Let’s look at three options you can try to stop thumb-sucking.
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Paint a non-toxic, bitter substance on your child’s finger. One option is Mavala.
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Use a finger guard, a plastic implement that covers the finger and wraps around the wrist.
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Ask your orthodontist about a habit appliance, which is temporarily cemented into your child’s mouth and stays in your child’s mouth until the habit is broken.
For more information on how to stop your child’s finger-sucking habit, click here to reach out to Shine Orthodontics now!
Benefits of Traditional Braces
Strong and Durable
Traditional braces are made from a strong metal alloy, and they will not break or crack from orthodontist-approved foods or drinks.
Variety of Uses
Traditional braces can be used to correct teeth alignment regardless of their current arrangement. Underbites, overbites, or anything in between are all corrected using traditional braces.
Convenience
Highly convenient, traditional braces are fixed appliances that are attached to your teeth. This eliminates the risk of losing them (a risk with clear aligners).
Suitable for All Ages
People of any age can benefit from traditional braces. Metal braces are the staple of modern orthodontics and because of this, almost anyone can use them to get the smile of their dreams.
Benefits of Ceramic Braces
Discreet
The biggest difference between ceramic braces and traditional braces is that ceramic braces are discreet and blend in with your teeth. Because they use tooth-colored or clear brackets, ceramic braces often go completely unnoticed.
Variety of Uses
Using brackets and a metal alloy wire, ceramic braces use the same trusted technology as traditional braces, just with a more discreet look and a more comfortable feel. Ceramic braces can be used for a wide variety of orthodontic treatments for better teeth alignment.
Benefits of Invisalign®
Aesthetics
One of the biggest advantages of clear aligners is that they are more visually pleasing as they are clear devices that will go unnoticed, even when the patient smiles.
Easy-to-Clean
Since they are removable, clear aligners are easy to clean and can be sanitized overnight. You can easily remove food particles trapped between your teeth and aligner simply by removing the device and quickly washing it off or brushing your teeth.
Comfort
Clear aligners are more comfortable than traditional or ceramic braces as they have no abrasive brackets to rub up against a patient’s gums. Removable aligners can also be taken off at night meaning patients can sleep in complete comfort.
No Food Restrictions
The fear with bracket-style braces is that certain foods will detach them from the tooth they are attached to. Because invisible aligners can be taken off when the patient is eating, there are no food restrictions like with traditional or ceramic braces.
3M™ Clarity™ Aligners for a Better and Brighter Smile
3M™ Clarity™ Aligners presents an ideal choice for individuals seeking a radiant and unobstructed smile, offering a convenient and comfortable way to straighten teeth.
Who Qualifies for Same-Day Braces?
If your orthodontist determines you are ready for braces, you are eligible for same-day braces!
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Early Orthodontic Assessment
Nurturing Lifelong Smiles
The American Board of Orthodontics recommends that children get their first orthodontic checkup no later than age 7. But that does not necessarily mean that orthodontic care will begin at that age.
Your orthodontist will determine if early orthodontic treatment or intervention is needed.
Orthodontic Treatment for Lasting Oral Health
The earlier treatment starts, the more likely it is for your child to have healthy teeth for their entire adult lives. However, our doctors are focused on what is best for each patient and we will only initiate treatment for children when there is a clear benefit.
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Benefits of Early Childhood Orthodontic Treatment:
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Correct width of dental arches with expansion
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Improved eruption patterns of permanent teeth
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Decreased risk of trauma to protruding upper front teeth
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Correct oral habits like thumb sucking
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Increased space for permanent teeth
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Reduced likelihood of permanent tooth extraction
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Orthodontic Treatment Options for Adolescents
Today there are more options for adolescent orthodontic treatment than ever before. Your teen may be reluctant to add braces and we can help put them at ease.
Teen Orthodontic Treatment Options
- Traditional braces
- Ceramic braces that blend in with your teeth
- Clear aligners (Invisalign or Clarity 3M)
Choose the orthodontic treatment that best suits your adolescent's lifestyle and priorities.
Options for Adult Orthodontic Treatment
We have many adult patients at Shine Orthodontics, and we offer several treatment options to help them reach their oral health goals without disrupting their lifestyles.
Traditional Braces
Traditional braces are a great option for adults looking to stick to the basics. These teeth alignment options come in many colors and can be customized to fit your style and needs.
Ceramic Braces
Ceramic braces are designed to blend in with your teeth to prevent any disruption to your lifestyle. These sleek and attractive orthodontic options will correct your teeth while you live your life to the fullest.
Clear Aligners
Clear aligners are clear molds designed to fit comfortably over your teeth without any unsightly or uncomfortable brackets. Shine Orthodontics has two options available, Invisalign and 3M™ Clarity™ Aligners.
Types of Mouthguards
Mouthguards for Teeth Grinding
Teeth grinding is a serious (and painful) problem that can lead to long-term damage to your teeth or gums. Shine Orthodontics can help protect your teeth from enamel loss and other issues caused by grinding with custom made nightgaurds.
Mouthguards for Sports
Contact sports can lead to chipped teeth, concussions, and other dental trauma. Mouthguards help absorb some of the force that teeth face during contact sports and help prevent teeth from getting chipped or damaged.
Other Mouthguard Solutions
There are many different types of mouthguards available for a wide range of applications. Below are some of the options that might be right for you.
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Custom-fit mouthguards
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Nightguards
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Braces mouthguards
Retainer Choices for Your Smile
There are three types of retainers that may be right for you.
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Clear plastic retainers are one of the most popular options as they are invisible, removable, and molded precisely to your teeth. They are also easily removed so they never interfere with brushing and eating.
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Fixed retainers are made of metal wires and blend in with your mouth. Since they are fixed in place, they cannot be lost, but they do require care.
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Hawley retainers are removable retainers that are either made from acrylic with wire or plastic. They are adjustable, durable, and easily removed for brushing or eating.
After completing your orthodontic treatment, retainers are crucial for preserving your beautiful smile and ensuring the lasting results of your journey. Choose the retainer that suits your needs and lifestyle to maintain your confident smile for years to come.
Advantages of Traditional Braces for Teeth Alignment
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Smile Comfortably with Aesthetic Ceramic Braces
Ceramic braces are an aesthetic teeth alignment option that offers you all the same benefits of traditional braces, only with a more subtle look and a more comfortable fit against the cheeks and gums. Using tooth-colored brackets, ceramic braces blend in with your teeth to give you a better and brighter smile that just shines. Ask the Shine Orthodontics staff if ceramic braces are right for you!
Invisalign® for a Better and Brighter Smile
Invisalign® is the perfect option for those who want a clear and bright smile but do not want to obscure their teeth or wear traditional braces.
Are clear aligners right for you? Talk to the Shine Orthodontics staff today!
Explore Our Same-Day Braces
With Your Style and Your Smile
Today, braces are sleeker and blend in with your teeth better than ever before. You live an active, unique lifestyle. Don’t let braces stand in the way!
Shine Orthodontics offers both traditional and ceramic braces today to suit you and your smile. Whether you want ceramic braces that blend in with your teeth or a pop of color, same-day braces from Shine Orthodontics give you the smile of your dreams!
Early Childhood Orthodontic Health
Nurturing Balanced and Healthy Smiles
There are many options for correcting oral health issues early in childhood. Timely and appropriate treatment can prevent worse issues down the line and set you up for long-term health habits.
Treatment for patients as young as 7 can include:
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Braces
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Expanders
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Space Maintainers
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Nance appliance
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Lower Lingual Holding Arch
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Band and Loop Space Maintainer
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Traditional braces are the tried-and-true method for correcting misaligned teeth and developing the smile of your dreams. Using brackets, an alloy wire, and sometimes elastic bands, braces have helped thousands achieve a brighter smile. For straight teeth that Just Shine, ask the Shine Orthodontics staff if traditional braces are right for you!