Face training

At last year’s Dental Showcase Nick Mohindra, from Added Dimension Dentistry, hosted a series of mini lectures entitled ‘The missing link in the facial ageing puzzle’. He began by describing how he first discovered the effects Oralift appliances can have on facial aesthetics.

Dentists tend to just look at teeth, gums and mouths. When Nick first got started in dentistry he was the same, but for the last 20 years he has been more interested in faces generally, because he began to realise that what he was doing in the mouth was having a profound effect on the face too. This led him to develop the Oralift appliance, which evolved over several years and is designed to slow down and even reverse the signs of the ageing process (crow’s feet, sagging jowls and so on). It also has the ability to slow down parafunction, which also reduces the ageing effect, and alters the resting vertical dimension by manipulating the free way space.