Dental Braces in Dubai

Fixed appliances are bonded to the teeth and work continuously, which makes them predictable for complex movement: closing extraction spaces, uprighting tipped molars, correcting significant rotations and managing bite discrepancies. They are available with metal or ceramic brackets, the ceramic option being less visible.

Clear aligners are a series of removable trays, changed on a schedule, usually with small tooth-coloured attachments bonded to some teeth to give the tray something to push against. They are removable for eating and cleaning and far less visible, and they suit alignment, spacing and many mild to moderate bite problems.

The honest limitation of aligners is that they only work while they are in the mouth. Twenty to twenty-two hours a day is not a recommendation, it is the treatment. The decision between the two is made from what your teeth need to do, not only from how the appliance looks.

Orthodontic treatment is planned on measurements. Before anything is bonded, the clinic takes clinical photographs, an intraoral digital scan of both arches taken on a Dentsply Sirona Primescan AC scanner, a panoramic radiograph, and cone beam computed tomography where a three-dimensional answer is needed: an impacted canine, an unerupted or ectopic tooth, root proximity, the amount of bone covering the lower incisors, or the position of the third molars.

Imaging is performed on site on a Planmeca Viso G5, which covers panoramic and CBCT programs on one unit with the Planmeca Ultra Low Dose protocol, so records do not require a referral elsewhere. What each image is for is explained on the page about CBCT and dental X-ray.

Active decay and gum inflammation are treated before appliances go on. Applying force to teeth whose support is inflamed accelerates bone loss, so gum treatment comes first where it is needed.

Fixed appliances are bonded at a single appointment lasting about an hour to an hour and a half, after which the teeth feel tender for a few days. Reviews follow every four to eight weeks for adjustments and wire changes. Aligner treatment starts with attachments and the first trays, with reviews roughly every six to ten weeks and tray changes made at home.

Most adult courses run between twelve and twenty-four months. Simple alignment of the front teeth can be shorter; cases with bite correction, extraction space closure or impacted teeth can run longer. Aligner cases often finish with a refinement stage, a second series of trays made once the teeth have moved and the plan is updated against reality.

Cleaning is the part that decides how the teeth look when the appliance comes off. Decalcification marks around brackets are permanent, so hygiene visits during treatment are part of the plan rather than an extra. At those visits plaque and stain are removed from around the brackets and under the archwire with air polishing — the water, air and fine powder jet commonly called Air Flow — which reaches the places a brush and a rubber cup cannot.

Teeth do not settle permanently the day the appliance is removed. The fibres around each root and the surrounding bone need months to reorganise, and teeth continue to drift slowly throughout life whether or not they were ever treated. Retention is what holds the result.

Retention is usually a thin wire bonded behind the front teeth, a removable retainer worn at night, or both together. Bonded wires are checked at routine visits because they can debond quietly, and removable retainers need replacing when they wear or distort. Stopping wear because the teeth feel stable is the single most common reason people find them crowded again a few years later.

Adults make up a large share of orthodontic patients, and adult treatment differs from treatment in a growing jaw in ways that matter. The jaws no longer grow, so a skeletal discrepancy cannot be guided and has to be either compensated by moving teeth or, in marked cases, addressed surgically. Teeth move at a similar rate, but the tissue around them responds more slowly, so a course often runs slightly longer.

The larger difference is that an adult mouth already has a history. Fillings, crowns, bridges, implants, worn edges, missing teeth and reduced bone support all constrain what can be moved and how. An implant does not move at all — it is fused to bone by design — so its position is planned around rather than corrected. Teeth with reduced periodontal support can still be moved, but only once the gums are stable and with lighter forces.

For that reason an adult course begins with the records described above plus an assessment of gum health and of every existing restoration. Where restorative work is planned afterwards — veneers, crowns or implants — the orthodontic plan is designed to put the teeth where those restorations need them, which usually means less tooth has to be removed later.

An orthodontic consultation starts from AED 650. The consultation covers the examination, the discussion of the options and the plan; diagnostic records are quoted separately.

The cost of a course depends on the appliance, the complexity of the movement and the length of treatment, so it is quoted in writing after the records are read, not before. The written estimate states what is included — appliance, review appointments, records, retainers at the end — so that the figure you compare between clinics is the same figure. Ask for that breakdown wherever you are quoted; a low headline price that excludes retainers is not a lower price.

At ELEMENTAL this treatment is carried out by Dr. Artem Shyshko, General Dentist.

Fixed braces at ELEMENTAL start from AED 18,000 for a full course, including review appointments and retainers at the end. The final cost depends on the appliance chosen and how long treatment runs, and is confirmed in writing after your records are taken, before anything is scheduled.