The treatment process begins with a digital scan of your teeth. This digital scan works like a three dimensional camera to capture the unique details of your teeth in incredible detail. Getting your scan is easy! There is no radiation and there is no unpleasant dental impressions.

Your scan is then used to create a virtual model of your teeth and jaws. Dr. Escott uses this model to create a comprehensive plan for the movement of your teeth, and to design every detail of your smile. This process is critical to achieving the best-possible result for each individual patient.

Step 3: Adhering to Details

Straight teeth is just the beginning in quality orthodontic treatment, and getting the details right requires critical evaluation and careful planning for each patient’s treatment. While designing your orthodontic treatment using a virtual model, Dr. Escott also carefully plans important details such as how your teeth appear within your smile and how your teeth fit together when biting. Dr. Escott even looks at many smaller details, such as the shapes of individual teeth – carefully factoring in details such as worn edges and uneven gum tissue. Planning orthodontic treatment to this detail is critical for an excellent orthodontic treatment result.

After designing your smile and creating your treatment plan, Dr. Escott utilizes the SureSmile robot to fabricate custom archwires for his patients. These robots are incredible machines, and only two exist in the world. These advanced robots are capable of creating wires for orthodontic treatment with accuracy and precision that cannot be achieved with any other method of orthodontic treatment.

Back in the clinic at Escott Orthodontics, you will receive your custom-made archwires to guide your teeth efficiently to the exact position that was planned by Dr. Escott. Your custom wires are remarkable in that they work on every tooth, simultaneously, to take teeth to their prescribed positions, expressing all of the details carefully designed by Dr. Escott. This means that one custom wire can achieve more than a dozen visits to the orthodontist done the traditional way. Therefore, your customized archwires can dramatically reduce orthodontic treatment time, not by forcing teeth to move “faster”, but by moving teeth with a precision that has never before been possible.