Discover your smile and enjoy a healthy life

Smiling is a powerful human contact and is an important gesture and communication cue.  It identifies you, your moods, your appearance and your outward expression.  It sends a signal to the receiving person that you are warm, connected and open to connect to others.

Your smile affects your biological health:  

According to Discovery Communications¹, the human face typically has 43 muscles.  To initiate a smile, your brain first send out nerve signals to cause certain facial muscles to express a smile.  This signaling process turns on other parts of your brain, such as the hypothalamus, to release chemicals that directly impact your sensory responses.   Through the pipelines, a gesture of smiling can cause your body to release many good chemicals, such as oxytoxin, to make you happy, excited, contentment.  The same gesture can minimize stress.  At the cellular levels, your body produces less cortisol, a chemical that put your through fight and flight and wear down your body overtime.  Essentially, by smiling, you take active steps to promote healthy heart, lower blood pressure, reduce stress, reduce anti-aging chemicals, and lives longer². 

Your smile affects your confidence:  

To live a passionate life, you need the confidence to explore and engage in many new adventures in life.   To gain this confidence, it is easier to start out with a straight and pleasant smile.  Unlike crooked teeth which wedge food particles and collect stain, straight teeth are easier to brush and minimize food impaction.  Straight teeth allow you to brush and floss better to reduce cavities and bath breath.  Straight teeth can improve your speech and reduce risks of temporo-mandibular joint dysfunction.  These parts contribute toward your confidence and how you carry yourself.  With a short visit to the orthodontist, you can seek more information on how to achieve a dazzling smile.

Your smile affects your overall life:

When you open yourself and smile to others, you invite new friends, make more connections and enjoy life happiness.  If you have crooked teeth, unaesthetic gaps, or protruding teeth and that causes you to be afraid to smile, we here can help.  Dr. Nancy Phan at Care Orthodontics in San Jose CA can help you create a dazzling attractive smile.  Achieving straight teeth and a confident smile may be easier to achieve than you thought.  Nowadays with the added benefits of thinner brackets, cosmetic brackets, clear braces and Invisalign, you have many options and can choose a treatment that most fitted for you.

Our office offers:

• Invisalign - clear removable aligners for adults and teenagers
• Metal and ceramic braces – catering to your individual need
• Headgear – to correct bad bite and different type of malocclusions
• Retainers – to replace lost retainers or after orthodontic treatment 
• Dr. Nancy Phan is a Board-certified orthodontist and dedicated many years to bring out the true beauty of your smile and strong bites.   Visit our website at www.CareOrthodontics.com or call Care Orthodontic today at 408-971-2885 to schedule an appointment.

References:

1)       https://blog.bufferapp.com/the-science-of-smiling-a-guide-to-humans-most-powerful-gesture

2)       https://www.reference.com/science/many-muscles-face