Postural Changes When Wearing Clear Aligners like Invisalign®
Clear teeth aligners and posture!? Now that is a pair. Not necessarily a pair you’d put together though! Vancouver teeth aligners are standard nowadays. Vancouver Disc Centers meets many Vancouver chiropractic patients who have decided to use these new devices to adjust teeth. They are nearly invisible. They are flexible. They come out when the clear aligner wearer wants to take them out. Wearers obtain some control of the procedure. All is good, and yet the treatment planning like that of Invisalign® is newer technology. Everyone is learning more about it. Vancouver Disc Centers hadn’t thought that orthodontic and Vancouver chiropractic treatment plans might cross paths. Surprise!
TOOTH ALIGNMENT TREATMENT AND PLANNING
Most Vancouver chiropractic patients remember (too well for some!) the classic fixed appliances (braces) used in orthodontics to straighten teeth. Many Vancouver orthodontic patients lived with them! Research presents that in using Invisalign® technology, tooth type and movement are important issues to ponder when the treatment plan is set. Invisalign® technology lets clinicians to predict tooth positions with high accuracy when done in nonextraction cases, but some of the actual outcomes may differ from those expectations. Most variances were not clinically relevant though. (1) Malocclusion (a misalignment or imprecise relationship between the teeth of the two dental arches when they come close to each other when the jaws close) changes teeth straightening treatment planning. In a comparison study of Invisalign® to these conventional fixed appliances for mild to moderate malocclusion issues, they both corrected the condition. Invisalign® wearers completed their care faster (by 5.7 months!). Invisalign® improvement wasn’t as “great” in efficacy as fixed appliances. (2) One study set out to determine relationships between body posture in the sagittal profile and sagittal jaw position. The mandible (lower jaw) has a greater influence on body posture than other craniofacial factors, so patients with severe malocclusions ought to be extended extra consideration particularly if a jaw surgery is planned. (3) Vancouver Disc Centers is in line with having the Vancouver orthodontists determine this!
TOOTH ALIGNMENT WITH INVISALIGN AND POSTURE
But Vancouver Disc Centers is ready to help when posture issues arise in the process of aligning teeth . A new study reports that clear, occlusal coverage aligners like Invisalign® may well affect body posture. The upper spine and lower spine sections are influenced. After 6 months of wearing these clear aligners, the Kyphosis Angle, the Upper Thoracic Inclination and Pelvic Inclination were modified. It’s been reported that these clear aligners change a wearer’s vertical height due to the occlusal coverage over the teeth and, then, stimulate periodontal receptors hindering the jaw closing muscles and, likely, changing mandibular posture. (4) Vancouver Disc Centers is as amazed as our Vancouver chiropractic patients with all that is possible with these clear aligners! Vancouver Disc Centers is aware of this potential and keeps it in mind when examining Vancouver chiropractic patients who wear these.
CONTACT Vancouver Disc Centers
Schedule a Vancouver chiropractic visit at Vancouver Disc Centers to examine your posture whether you are wearing Invisalign® or not! Vancouver Disc Centers works with all kinds of pairs related to the spine and posture! Vancouver chiropractic services cover all bases from the exam to the diagnosis to the treatment with spinal manipulation, diet, supplementation and exercise to the postural and rehabilitation tips to get your spine healthy and keep it that way.
