What Makes a Smile “Perfect?”

Get Your Child Smiling Brighter This School Year By Helping Them Achieve a Perfect Smile!

A beautiful smile can lift your spirits and brighten someone’s day. A dazzling smile shows that you’re ready to take on the world. And for kids and teens returning to school, working on achieving their perfect smile can boost their confidence. But people are rarely born with a perfect smile—it is often achieved by a team of smile experts that work with you and your child to attain the desired outcome. A few key smile standards should be considered for achieving the “perfect” smile for your face.

The standards for a perfect smile are easy to achieve in partnership with your orthodontist. They are:

1. The Correct Bite
   An underbite or overbite can throw off the balance of the face and can even cause oral pain in the long run. Your orthodontist can work with your child to correct their bite with traditional braces. 
2. No Spaces Between Teeth
   Gaps in the teeth are easily remedied with help from an orthodontist. Both traditional braces and aligners can be used to close in the spaces between the teeth, leading to a beautiful smile with appropriately spaced teeth. 
3. No Tooth Decay
   Having straight teeth also leads to a cleaner mouth and, ultimately, a prettier smile. Why? Because if the teeth are crooked, there are more spaces for food particles to get lodged in between the teeth, leading to plaque, bad breath, and tooth decay. Getting your child’s teeth professionally straightened with aligners or braces prevents a lot of oral problems for years to come, setting your child up for a lifetime of smiles! 
4. Straight Teeth
   Straight teeth are simply the gold standard for a perfect smile. No matter the shape or size of the teeth, the key factor of a perfect smile is having all of the teeth in proper alignment. For more challenging cases, traditional braces may be required, but for many cases, aligners like Invisalign work wonderfully. 

Very few people are born with perfectly straight, even teeth, but that doesn’t mean you can’t achieve the perfect smile with a little help from the pros. At Island Orthodontics, we’re happy to help your child achieve a back-to-school look they will love! From traditional braces to Invisalign, and even our very own IslandSmile aligners, we have the technology and the expertise to help you discover the smile you’ve always wanted. We also have all kinds of options that your child will love so that they can customize their look to fit their unique style, including Wild Smiles Braces, which are brackets shaped like hearts, footballs, stars, and other fun shapes; and even 24K gold coated braces! We offer free in-person or virtual consultations so that our smile experts can tailor each treatment specifically to the individual needs of each patient we see! Let Island Orthodontics help your child achieve the confidence to smile brightly in school pictures this year and for years to come!