Wedding: how to prepare your smile for the big day

Category: Invisible braces · 5 March 2019

Smile with confidence in your wedding photos. On the most important day of your life you’ll look stunning: the dress, the flowers, the make-up… everything perfect. And what about your smile? For every bride and groom, one thing is clear: it has to be right. This blog post offers tips on how to polish your smile to a high shine in the short to medium term.

Your smile: how to make it shine on the big day

Food, drinks, natural discolouration or medication can affect the colour of your teeth. One of the fastest ways to enhance your smile is bleaching. It is the perfect method for getting a beautiful smile quickly.

Your dentist probably offers several bleaching options. A good dentist will only recommend professional, gentle methods that are adapted to your teeth. We advise against bleaching kits from the internet because they contain overly aggressive bleaching agents.

Here’s how you can go about it:

Professional bleaching at the dentist’s

The dentist applies a gel to the teeth. The powerful whitener is activated by exposure to a special light. This treatment can lighten your teeth by up to eight shades in just two hours.

Bleaching at home: your dentist provides you with bleaching tablets and/or gel that ensure a thorough and even bleaching result. You can use these at home whenever and as often as you like. How long the treatment takes depends on how radiant you want your smile to be.

Orthodontic treatment: for a radiant smile on your wedding day

Irregular or crooked teeth can be awkward, especially on a day when your smile is the centre of everyone’s attention. Below are some of the ways we can enhance your smile in the medium term:

Porcelain veneers

If your wedding day is coming up in the near future, porcelain veneers could be the right solution for you. This method is often referred to as “instant orthodontics”.

Veneers are thin porcelain shells that are attached to the front of the teeth. They change the shape, size and colour of the teeth.

If your teeth are only slightly irregular or a little crooked, we can use veneers to enhance your smile in just two or three dental visits.

Invisible braces

If your wedding is taking place in 6–12 months, invisible aligners could be the perfect option for you. We use a series of different invisible aligners that move your teeth gently and lastingly into the right position.

The virtually invisible aligners can be removed for eating, brushing and flossing.
Treatment with invisible aligners usually takes around 12 months.

Conclusion

A radiant, flawless smile gives you self-confidence. And as we all know, you need an extra helping of that on your wedding day.

You’re probably looking into our options because you’re currently unhappy with your teeth. But if you act early, you’ll still be looking back happily at your wedding photos in 15 years’ time.

Congratulations on your upcoming wedding – we hope everything will be exactly as you’ve always dreamed.

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