Braces & Clear Aligners in Bountiful
Find the Best Fit for
Your Smile
At Viva Orthodontics in Bountiful, Dr. Jimmy Martineau offers a range of modern treatment options designed to fit your lifestyle, goals, and budget. Whether you're looking for something discreet, fast, or fully customized, we’ll help you find the perfect solution for your smile.
Transforming Smiles Through Surgical Orthodontics
When severe skeletal or jaw discrepancies can’t be fully corrected by braces or aligners alone, surgical orthodontics enables life-changing alignment, function, and facial balance. It’s a collaboration between your orthodontist and an oral surgeon to give you a stable, healthy, confident smile.
A Deeper Level of Alignment
Surgical orthodontics, also called orthognathic surgery, combines orthodontic treatment with jaw surgery to correct significant misalignment between the upper and lower jaws. When your bite, chewing, breathing, or facial proportions are affected by skeletal issues, braces alone may not suffice.
First, Dr. Jimmy Martineau aligns your teeth as much as possible with braces or aligners. Then, in coordination with an oral surgeon, the jaws are repositioned surgically. After healing, orthodontics finishes the fine-tuning.
Big Changes, Bigger Benefits
Surgical orthodontics can correct bite problems that cause difficulty chewing, chronic jaw pain, speech issues, or TMJ strain. Realigning the jaws can dramatically improve facial balance and aesthetics, giving your smile a more natural, proportional look.
Because the underlying skeletal issues are addressed, surgical orthodontics often provides more stable results — less relapse and fewer compromises in the long run.
Palate Expanders
Widening Your Smile’s Foundation
Palate expanders help create the space your teeth and jaws need to develop healthily, often preventing the need for more complex treatment later. This early intervention can guide your child’s growth and reduce the need for future extractions or surgery.
How Palate Expanders Work
A palate expander is a device placed in the upper jaw (palate) to widen it over time. It applies gentle pressure to the mid-palatal suture, allowing the bone to respond and create more room for teeth, thereby improving the dental arch. In children and adolescents, the bones are still growing and more responsive to expansion.
Making Room for a Healthy Smile
Expansion can help resolve crowding, reduce the chance of extractions, and allow permanent teeth to emerge more naturally. A properly expanded palate can help improve how the upper and lower teeth fit together, aiding biting, chewing, and even jaw alignment.
Likewise, widening the roof of the mouth can positively influence nasal airflow and breathing, which may support better sleep and overall health.
Cosmetic Orthodontics
Beauty Meets Function in Orthodontics
Cosmetic orthodontic solutions go beyond alignment — they refine the details of your smile. From gum sculpting to reshaping worn teeth, these treatments focus on blending aesthetics and health so your final smile is both beautiful and functional.
It’s All in the Details
Cosmetic orthodontics includes procedures such as gingivectomy (gum contouring), esthetic (enamel) recontouring, and treating wear or damage from bruxism. These treatments fine-tune the appearance of your teeth and gums, complementing your orthodontic alignment efforts.
Beautiful & Functional
These procedures allow you to perfect small imperfections — uneven gum lines, slightly chipped or worn teeth — so your smile looks polished. Cosmetic tweaks help your teeth, gums, and facial structures work in harmony, resulting in a cohesive and natural appearance.
Addressing wear or gum excess can improve how your teeth function, reduce sensitivity, and allow easier maintenance and cleaning.