5 Tips and Tricks for Your First Week of Braces Treatment If you’re inching closer to your first week with braces, you’re probably feeling a lot of different emotions. You might be excited to start the journey towards your brand new smile, but you might also be a bit...

How Can You Make Braces or Invisalign Affordable? Many people spend their whole lives dreaming of a straighter smile. As orthodontic specialists in Thornton, Colorado, it makes perfect sense to us! Having straight teeth is associated with improved confidence and...

The temporomandibular joint, or TMJ. It’s a long word with an equally important function. When you open and close your mouth to talk, chew, or yawn, the TMJ is hard at work as the hinge that connects your jawbone to your skull. When your TMJ is healthy, you don’t even...

When you think about orthodontics, is your first thought legions of braces-wearing teenagers? Indeed, for generations of teens, braces are like a rite of passage. And it makes sense — high school is when all your adult teeth have finally come in and you’ve said...

There is no doubt that the advent of Clear Aligners Therapy (e.g. Invisalign, 3M Clarity, ClearCorrect, etc.)  has changed the way that orthodontics is done.  It is so appealing; patients love that we can now move teeth without the need for braces and wires!  People...

I often hear people make comments such as “I had to have braces twice,” or “I’ve noticed that they are doing braces twice these days.”  This begs the obvious question, why would you intentionally have to do braces twice? As a parent, it can be confusing if they hear...

In the last couple of Newsletters, we have been talking about when is the best time to start orthodontic treatment for a child. There are so many factors to consider, like the eruption of permanent teeth, the adolescent growth spurt, the age of the child, and none of...

Parents often ask me when their child should start orthodontic treatment. As an orthodontist, I also hear people tell me from time-to-time that they think their child is too young for orthodontics when, in my opinion, it would have been great to get started a year...