Can Invisalign Fix A Crossbite?

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If you’re dealing with a crossbite, you may have noticed that your teeth don’t quite line up when you bite down — and you’re not alone. Crossbites affect millions of people and can lead to long-term dental issues if left untreated. But the good news? Invisalign braces are a modern new way to treat orthodontic issues, including a crossbite. They are a discreet way to fix many types of crossbites conditions — without the need for using traditional braces.

At Whites Dental, with practices in Waterloo (SE1) and Marble Arch (W2), we specialise in Invisalign treatments for adults and teens across London. In this guide, we’ll explore how Invisalign works to fix crossbites, who’s suitable, what to expect during your Invisalign London treatment, and why our centrally located clinics are trusted by patients throughout the capital.

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What Is A Crossbite?

A crossbite is a type of malocclusion where the upper teeth sit inside the lower teeth when your mouth is closed. It can affect front teeth, back teeth, or both.

Types of crossbite:

  • Anterior crossbite
    Upper front teeth sit behind your front lower teeth.
  • Posterior crossbite
    Upper back teeth bite on the inside of your back lower teeth.

Common causes:

  • Genetics
  • Delayed tooth eruption.
  • Childhood habits (thumb-sucking, pacifiers).
  • Abnormal jaw development.

Why Should A Crossbite Be Treated?

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If you do not treat a crossbite, it can lead to other oral health issues that are more than just cosmetic in nature. They may cause:

  • Excessive tooth wear.
  • Gum recession
  • Jaw pain or clicking (TMJ issues).
  • Asymmetrical facial appearance
  • Speech difficulties

💡 Treating a crossbite early not only improves your smile but protects your long-term oral health.

How Invisalign Corrects A Crossbite

Our Invisalign dentists offers a modern, discreet solution for correcting mild to moderate crossbites using a series of custom-made clear aligners. The system works by applying gentle, consistent pressure on the teeth to gradually move them into their correct positions. For crossbites, this means widening the dental arch or shifting specific teeth outward or inward to achieve proper alignment. Attachments—small, tooth-coloured grips placed on certain teeth—may be used to give the aligners better control and precision.

Treatment time typically ranges from 6 to 18 months, depending on the severity of the crossbite. Throughout the process, digital scans and progress tracking ensure every movement aligns with the treatment plan.

Tools your Invisalign dentist may use:

  • SmartTrack aligners: Patented for comfort and precision.
  • Attachments: Tooth-coloured bumps for added control
  • Elastics: Small bands used for jaw alignment if needed.
  • iTero scans: Digital scans (3D scans) to create customised treatment plans

At Whites Dental, with clinics in Waterloo (SE1) and Marble Arch (W2), our Invisalign experts use advanced 3D scanning technology to design tailored crossbite treatments, helping patients achieve a comfortable, balanced and confident smile without the hassle of metal braces.

Where To Get Invisalign For Crossbite In London

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Whites Dental Waterloo SE1

📍 172 Blackfriars Rd, London SE1 8ER
📞 020 8616 0590
Just minutes from Waterloo Station
Serving Southbank, Elephant & Castle and London Bridge

Whites Dental Marble Arch (W2)

📍 52B Kendal St, St George’s Fields, London W2 2BP
📞 020 3576 2325
Close to Hyde Park, Mayfair & Paddington
Convenient Central London location

Who Is Invisalign Suitable For?

You could be a good candidate for Invisalign treatment if you:

  • Have a mild to moderate crossbite (anterior or posterior)
  • Can wear aligners 20–22 hours per day
  • Maintain good oral hygiene.
  • Are willing to attend regular check-ups

💡Severe skeletal crossbites may require a combined approach with orthodontic or surgical treatment. At Whites Dental, we’ll assess your bite and advise you honestly.

How Long Will It Take To Correct A Crossbite Condition With Invisalign Aligners?

The time it takes to correct a crossbite with Invisalign aligners depends on the severity of the misalignment and each patient’s individual dental structure. On average, most patients can expect treatment to take between 9 and 18 months. Mild crossbites involving only a few teeth may be corrected in as little as 6 months, while more complex cases—especially those involving both front and back teeth—may take longer to achieve a stable and balanced bite.

Invisalign works by using a series of clear, custom-made aligners that gradually shift your teeth into their ideal positions. Each aligner is worn for about 1 to 2 weeks, and regular check-ups with your Invisalign dentist ensure that progress stays on track. Compliance plays a big role too—wearing the aligners for the recommended 20–22 hours per day significantly speeds up treatment time and ensures predictable results.

The average Invisalign treatment time for crossbite correction is:

Crossbite SeverityApprox. Duration
Mild6–9 months
Moderate10–15 months.
Complex18–24 months

At Whites Dental, with clinics conveniently located in Waterloo (SE1) and Marble Arch (W2), our Invisalign specialists provide a personalised treatment plan based on your specific bite alignment and goals. Using 3D digital scans and advanced Invisalign software, we can estimate your treatment duration accurately before you even begin—helping you visualise your path to a perfectly aligned smile.

💡 Regular reviews at our Waterloo or Marble Arch clinic ensure you’re progressing on schedule.

Invisalign Crossbite Treatment Cost

At Whites Dental, Invisalign costs for crossbite typically range from:

£3,500 – £5,000

Finance options:

  • 0% interest for up to 12 months
  • Low monthly repayments
  • No hidden fees

💡 We also provide full written quotes after your free consultation.

Why Choose Whites Dental For Invisalign?

FeatureBenefit
Invisalign ExpertiseOver 10 years’ experience treating Londoners
Digital Scanning TechNo messy impressions or trays
Two Prime LocationsWaterloo SE1 & Marble Arch W2
Flexible Finance Options0% interest available
Extended HoursIdeal for busy working professionals

Invisalign Crossbite Patient Review

“I had a posterior crossbite that caused headaches and uneven tooth wear. I was hesitant to get metal braces. Invisalign at Whites Dental was smooth, discreet and very effective. My bite is corrected and I feel more confident smiling!”
— Sarah B., Marble Arch

FAQs: Invisalign & Crossbite

Can Invisalign fix crossbite without braces?
Yes, Invisalign aligners are able to treat many crossbite cases – especially mild to moderate cases, without having the need for train track braces.

Is Invisalign painful?
Most patients report mild pressure when switching aligners, but no major discomfort.

Will people notice I’m wearing aligners?
Invisalign aligners are made from clear plastic, making them virtually invisible. Most people you interact with won’t even realise that you are wearing braces.

What if I have a severe crossbite?
In complex cases, Invisalign can be combined with elastics or other treatments. A consultation is key.

Can Invisalign fix both front and back crossbites?
Yes, Invisalign can treat anterior (front) and posterior (back) crossbites. The treatment plan is fully customised using 3D digital scans, ensuring precise tooth movement for a balanced, aligned bite and improved overall dental health.

Do I need attachments or elastics with Invisalign to fix a crossbite?
In some cases, yes. Attachments (small, tooth-coloured bumps) or elastics may be added to your Invisalign treatment to provide extra grip and pressure, helping to guide the teeth and jaw into proper alignment for more accurate results.

Will Invisalign change my facial appearance after correcting a crossbite?
In many cases, yes — but in a positive way. By properly aligning the teeth and jaw, Invisalign can enhance your facial symmetry and jawline, creating a more balanced and natural look without invasive procedures.

Can children or teenagers use Invisalign for crossbite correction?
Absolutely. Invisalign offers Invisalign Teen, which is designed specifically for growing mouths. It can successfully correct crossbites in young patients, provided their jaw growth is carefully monitored by a qualified Invisalign provider.

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Ready To Fix Your Crossbite With Invisalign?

You don’t have to live with discomfort or self-consciousness from a crossbite. Invisalign offers a clear, comfortable and clinically proven solution — and we’re here to help.

Visit us at:

  • Whites Dental Waterloo (SE1)
  • Whites Dental Marble Arch (W2)

💡 Book your FREE Invisalign consultation today and take the first step toward a straighter, healthier smile.

👉 Book an appointment with our Invisalign dentists at our clinics in London.

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Whites Dental (“we”, “us” or “our”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

The practice respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy sets out how we will do this, taking into account data protection laws as well as our professional guidelines and requirements.

The data controller is Whites Dental; the Information Governance Lead is Deepa Chopra.

This Privacy Policy is available on the practice website at www.whitesdental.co.uk/privacy-policy, by email if you contact [email protected] or by calling the practice on 0204 527 3210.

This policy (together with our Cookies Policy) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (i.e. anonymous data).

Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

You will be asked to provide personal information when joining the practice. The purpose of us processing this data is to provide optimum health care to you by, for example, recommending the most relevant treatment and ensuring your safety by taking your medical history.

The categories of data we process

  • Contact data (such as name, address, email address, telephone number) for the purposes of corresponding with you, for example, regarding your appointments and treatment.
  • Contact data (such as name, address, email address, telephone number) for the purposes of direct mail/email/text/marketing.
  • Special category data concerning health (including health records, medical history, medication, your doctor’s name and address, warning cards or bracelets, alcohol and drug use) for the purposes of the delivery of safe health care.
  • Treatment data (such as photos, moulds, X-rays, clinical findings) for the purposes of providing you with the best treatment.
  • Financial data (such as credit card details, bank account information, credit history, employment status) for the purposes of processing your payment for treatment(s).
  • Usage data (such as information about how you use our website, products and services) for the purposes of improving the way we provide our treatment and services.

The ways we collect information about you

We may collect and process the following data about you in operating the website and performing any of our services and treatment(s):

Direct
  • Information you give us (including information you give to our Clinical Lead, Specialists, Dentists, Hygienists and Orthodontic Therapists who are contracted to work for us). You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our website www.whitesdental.co.uk or by corresponding with us by phone, email, in person or otherwise.
  • Personal data is obtained when a patient joins the practice, when a patient is referred to the practice and when a patient subscribes to an email list.
Automatic
  • Information we automatically collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our website we may automatically collect the following information:
  • Technical information, including the internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plugin types and versions, operating system and platform; and
  • Information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouseovers), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.
From third parties
  • Our Clinical Lead, Specialists, Dentists, Hygienists and Orthodontic Therapists are third parties working for us as contractors, however, they are contractually bound to us with regard to obligations of confidentiality in the same way as our employees and by professional obligations of confidentiality.
  • You may have been referred to us for treatment from Invisalign and we will therefore receive contact data, special category data concerning health, treatment data and/or financial data from them.
  • Information we receive from other sources. We may receive information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide.
  • We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, subcontractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.
  • We use third-party analytics services (such as Google Analytics) to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on activity, collect demographic data, analyze performance metrics, and collect and evaluate other information relating to our website and internet usage. These third parties use cookies and other technologies to help analyse and provide us with data.

How we share data with third parties

We may share your Contact data, special category of data relating to health, Financial data, Treatment data and/or Usage data with selected third parties including:

  • Our Clinical Lead, Specialists, Dentists, Hygienists and Orthodontic Therapists.
  • Private health insurance companies (at your request if you are using private health insurance).
  • Credit reference agencies.
  • Equipment providers and laboratories such as Align Tech, Nimrodental, and Ashford Orthodontics.
  • Professional compliance organisations such as BDA.
  • Data storage and transfer platforms such as Microsoft Sharepoint and Dropbox.
  • Our payment platform Natwest.
  • Our practice management and CRM software providers Pearl.
  • Our live chat provider Quriobot.
  • Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others such as Facebook.
  • Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site such as Google.

This is a list of the main third parties with whom we share your personal data. If you would like a full list of third parties who process your data, and their contact details, please contact us using the details set out above.

We never pass your personal details to a third party unless we have a contract for them to process data on our behalf and will otherwise keep it confidential.

If we intend to refer a patient to another practitioner or to secondary care such as a hospital we will gain your consent before the referral is made and the personal data is shared.

The website may include links to third party websites, plugins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

Data transferred outside the EU

  • Personal data is stored in the EU whether in digital or hard copy format.
  • Personal data is stored in the US in digital format when the data storage company is certified with the EU-US Privacy Shield.

Lawful basis for processing personal data

The lawful bases for processing personal data (including providing your personal data to third parties) are:

  • Consent of the data subject for data relating to treatment, care, our services, processing payment, credit checks, marketing and reviews, improving our services and improving our website (including using data analytics). This will also apply to the storage of personal data for these purposes.
  • Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with the data subject or to take steps to enter into a contract such as the provision of the services by us.
  • Processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation such as financial, tax and contractual laws.

For consent relating to children and people who may not have mental capacity to give consent, please contact us using the details above for a copy of our Safeguarding and Mental Capacity policies.

The reason for processing special category data such as patients’ health data is:

  • The processing is necessary for the purposes of preventative or occupational medicine, for assessing the working capacity of the employee, medical diagnosis, the provision of health or social care or treatment or management of health or social care systems and services on the basis of Union or Member State law or a contract with a health professional; and
  • Data is processed by or under the responsibility of a professional subject to the obligation of professional secrecy under Union or Member State law or rules established by national competent bodies or by another person also subject to an obligation of secrecy under Union or Member State law or rules established by national competent bodies.

Purposes for processing personal data

We (and the third parties listed above) process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • To provide you with our services.
  • To discuss relevant treatments.
  • To provide a safe working environment for staff, contractors and patients.
  • To check your employment and financial status for payment plans.
  • To process payments.
  • To keep you informed of our latest offers, other services we provide and general marketing activities.
  • To obtain reviews and feedback on your experience of our services.
  • To store our data.

If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us by using the details set out above.

Data retention

The retention period for special category data in patient records is a minimum of 10 years and may be longer for complex records in order to meet our legal requirements. The retention periods for other personal data is two years after it was last processed.

You will receive marketing emails until you unsubscribe, either by contacting us or by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email. For details of other retention periods please contact us using the details set out above.

Your personal data rights

You have the following personal data rights:

  • The right to be informed.
  • The right of access to your personal data, which enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
  • The right to rectification of your personal data that you consider to be inaccurate. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected.
  • The right to erasure. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove your personal data (however clinical records must be retained for a certain time period).
  • The right to restrict processing. This gives you the option to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data e.g. if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy or you do not want us to erase it.
  • The right to data portability. If you request us to do so, we will provide to you, or a third party of your choice, your personal data in a commonly used, machine-readable format.
  • The right to object. This enables you to object to the processing of your personal data if you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms, however, in some cases, we may have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which can override your right to object.
  • The right to request confirmation as to whether or not your personal data is being processed.
  • The right to not have a decision made about you based solely on automated processing.

You have the right to withdraw consent at any time. If you request us to do so, we will no longer process your data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we will not be able to provide you with the services. You have the right to obtain a free copy of your patient records within one month of submitting a request.

If you are not a patient of the practice you have the right to withdraw consent for processing personal data, to have a free copy of it within one month of submitting a request, to correct errors in it or to ask us to delete it. You can also withdraw consent from communication methods such as telephone, email or text.

We have carried out a Privacy Impact Assessment and if you would like a copy please contact us using the details set out above.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, in the first instance, please contact us using the details set out above.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Further details of these rights can be obtained on the Information Commissioner’s website.

Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted through our website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Comments, suggestions and complaints

Please contact the practice for a comment, suggestion or a complaint about your data processing at [email protected], or 0204 527 3210 or by writing to or visiting the practice. We take complaints very seriously.

If you are unhappy with our response or if you need any advice you should contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Their telephone number is 0303 123 1113, you can also find other contact options here. The ICO can investigate your claim and take action against anyone who’s misused personal data. You can also visit their website for information on how to make a data protection complaint.

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We offer individuals real choice and control. Our consent procedures put individuals in charge to build customer trust and engagement.

Our consent for marketing requires a positive opt-in, we don’t use pre-ticked boxes or any other method of default consent. We make it easy for people to withdraw consent, tell you how to and keep contemporaneous evidence of consent. Consent to marketing is never a precondition of a service.

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or if you have signed up via our contact form on the website and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

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We do not share your data with third parties for marketing purposes.

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