Apple Inc. Approves App to Make Braces More Enjoyable for Young Patients

Posted: January 18, 2016
Edited by Orthotown staff

PHOENIX—Apple Inc. has approved Snap Smile Share, the first ever mobile app for iPhones and iPads to help younger orthodontic patients with their braces treatment. The app is free and available on the Apple App Store.

Snap Smile Share aims to improve treatment compliance and enhance the orthodontic experience of young patients with braces. The app’s first feature turns the patient’s phone into a time lapse video tool which creates a short video of the patient’s teeth straightening and their smile improving.

In-app camera filters, picture alignment, and cropping features allows the patient to take a perfect picture from their phone every time. The video is then saved to the phone’s camera roll for viewing or sharing with various social media accounts.

The mobile app’s next feature provides patients with traditional braces a chance to “try on” different popular elastic colors. Finally, the app sends daily text notifications to remind patients to change aligners or to replace elastics and to wear their retainers.

Snap Smile Share is affiliated with the Instagram account @Braces, one of the largest social media communities of orthodontic patients with approximately twenty thousand followers. Patients and followers on @Braces have expressed a need for an app on their mobile phones to record their smile improving in real time, assist them to comply, to remind them of their orthodontist's instructions, and to explore different colors available for their braces.

App users can gather input from friends on which colors they should select next by sharing a picture of their choice via social media. After the patient decides on their color or color combination, a picture of their selection can then be saved on their phone's camera roll and later shown to their orthodontist.

There is an in-app feature for orthodontists to add their practice's logo and/or text to a patient's time lapse video. The in-app feature is important if an orthodontist would like to use the app to make videos of their patient's progress. The orthodontist can then use these videos for marketing purposes to show successful treatments on social media accounts, i.e., Facebook, Instagram and/or their website.

Snap Smile Share uses the convenience of the patient’s mobile phone to improve the patient's confidence in both their treatment plan and the final result of a new beautiful smile that will be good for life.
 
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