Smile Creators Blog

One of the greatest challenges for an orthodontist is treatment planning. Depending on when the orthodontist qualified and where they were taught will, to some extent, influence the treatment decisions. Ultimately the main goal for any treatment is to straighten teeth and to help maintain the result for the long term. A generation ago, the […]

This week I’m going to talk about six month smiles and how they work. “Six month smiles” is a brace system that is marketed to ‘non-orthodontists’ with the aim of providing them with a way of aligning people’s front teeth without needing the skill and/or training in orthodontics. In order to provide these braces, a […]

Nowadays there is a myriad of brace choices available to patients and so knowing what treatment to have to straighten teeth can be a real problem – especially if you rely on resources such as the internet as your major source of information. No matter what brace you think you’d like, there will be someone, […]

Going forwards I’d like to use the blogs as a way for people to find the right kind of advice and information for people considering teeth straightening treatment for themselves or their children. Generally speaking, anyone can have orthodontic braces. You can correct very minor irregularities of the teeth, all the way up to; major […]

In an ideal world, everything we want we should be able to get straight away or with minimal wait, so it’s not so surprising that when it comes to dental treatment and orthodontics in particular what patients want is their treatment to happen quickly and with minimal inconvenience. There are so many different private teeth […]

This year, Park Lane Ortho is doing it’s part to help raise money for BBC Children in Need. We are running a week long fundraising campaign, culminating with me and the nurses dressing up as tooth fairies, and the front desk team greeting patients in Children In Need livery. We’ve got games, cakes baked by […]

With today being Halloween, and as I like to be topical, I am going to make this blog suitably spooky! Well at least a little bit about potentially scary things anyway. One of the scariest things about having orthodontic treatment for most people is having a mouth full of braces and worrying what other people […]

Pre-Christmas savings on teeth straightening at Park Lane Orthodontics! As we get nearer to the Christmas season we all start to feel it in the purse strings. That’s why at Park Lane Orthodontics we want to do our bit by making it easier and more affordable for you to achieve a straight natural smile. On […]

We sometimes get patients contacting us because they are getting some discomfort from the braces and are worried it’s not normal. They often notice that their teeth also feel wobbly. As per my recent blog it is normal to experience some minor discomfort for a few days after having braces fitted and the occasional twinge […]