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Bonus Benefit
Put Your Tax Refund Toward a Healthier, Happier You
By Amy Morgan
Phew! You completed the dreaded task of filing your taxes, and now you can look forward to your refund. Why not put that hard-earned money back to work for you? Reward yourself with the gift of the beautiful smile you’ve been dreaming of. You can correct unsightly crooked teeth or a misaligned bite in sometimes less than 12 months.
No longer an out-of-reach luxury, orthodontics has become much more affordable. And the professionals at 7to7 Dental & Orthodontics are dedicated to working with their patients’ budgets. They’ve created in-house financing and payment plans that start with just a $250 down payment.
Board Certified Orthodontist Michael Roberts, D.D.S., brings 34 years of experience to 7to7 Dental. With extensive Invisalign training and an advanced Invisalign Fellowship Course, he oversees the 7to7 Dental’s Invisalign-approved team of professionals. While they still offer traditional braces, Invisalign is Dr. Roberts’ preferred method of orthodontics for children, teens and adults.
“Every patient of mine is a candidate for Invisalign unless proven otherwise,” he said.
The Invisalign creative process and high effectiveness allows Dr. Roberts to reverse engineer from a patient’s desired smile to the beginning and create a highly specialized plan. This begins with taking a three-dimensional image of the mouth using a technically advanced iTero 5-D intraoral scanner. The pictures, in detail to the 1/1000th of an inch, are stored in a computer, which uploads them to an onscreen simulation. A patient can visualize exactly what their mouth structure might look like side by side with the suggested treatment plan. Dr. Roberts can even add the patient’s photo to the simulation to show a patient how their smile would look with straight teeth.
“It makes quite the impact!” Dr. Roberts said. “The iTero digital scanner is the single greatest advancement in my career. It has changed the landscape of dentistry and orthodontics completely.” Once the image is approved, Dr. Roberts will create a course of 20-25 custom fitted Invisalign trays to complete the treatment.
Patients wear each aligner 24/7 for a prescribed time frame, removing only to eat, drink or clean. The Invisalign aligner wraps around the teeth like a glove, he added, rather than just sitting on the front.
“I can do things with Invisalign I could only imagine with conventional braces. Invisalign is the most accurate tool we have for moving teeth,” Dr. Roberts said. As an added benefit, 7to7 Dental provides each new orthodontics patient with a box of high-value tools to enhance their oral health journey. Each Invisalign patient is treated to an ultrasonic cleaner that will disinfect their clear aligners and keep them fresh and bacteria-free. Traditional braces patients are likewise given a new electric toothbrush to help patients clean hard-to-reach areas and keep their brackets free from debris.
Because 7to7 Dental is open 7 a.m. -7 p.m., services are provided when it’s most convenient for the patient. Tax returns are often deposited electronically shortly after filing, so schedule your appointment and make this the year you create the smile you’ve been waiting for.
