What to expect at your first visit

Thirty minutes. You won’t be sold anything, and you won’t be asked to decide anything on the day.

We build the record. Photographs, a 3D scan where it’s needed, and the x-rays your case calls for. This is the baseline for the next twenty years.

We look properly. Every tooth and filling, your gums charted point by point, your bite, your jaw joints, and a soft-tissue check. Most people have never had this done.

You see your own mouth. It goes up on the screen when we have findings to share with you. Usually we ask what you make of it before we say what we make of it.

We talk about the next twenty years. What’s urgent, what’s watchful, and what’s perfectly fine.

An appointment with our orthodontic team, and it’s free.

A 3D scan, no impressions. A wand passes over your teeth and your mouth appears on the screen beside you.

You see the likely finish. We simulate the result before you commit to anything.

A specialist assessment. Your bite, jaw joints and gums, not just the crowding. Cases treated on looks alone are the ones that relapse.

A straight answer. Sometimes Invisalign. Sometimes braces do a better job faster. Occasionally you don’t need treatment at all.

The first proper look at the bone underneath.

A 3D scan of the actual bone. Our own CT scanner, here in the building. Not a flat x-ray, but the real height, width and density.

You see it yourself. For most people this is the moment it finally makes sense.

“I was told I had too little bone.” We hear it constantly. It’s often true of ten years ago and not of now.

Every option, including doing nothing. What each costs today, and what it’s likely to cost in five years.

Your case may be discussed by more than one of our specialists before the plan is written, which is why the plan follows within a week rather than on the day.