We offer expert care for adults seeking orthodontic treatment in Wichita, with every detail designed around your experience. This isn’t just about straightening teeth, it’s about helping you feel confident, supported, and seen. Every step is intentional, reflecting our promise of premium care without shortcuts.
Your journey begins with a comprehensive consultation. Our treatment coordinator will gather digital scans, photographs, and bite records to understand your current smile architecture. Dr. Santucci personally reviews this data to assess facial harmony, airway health, and alignment patterns, laying the foundation for your custom smile design.
Using our proprietary ten-point framework, known as The Santucci Smile, we create a detailed plan built around structure, balance, and natural beauty. Every treatment recommendation is tied to your facial features, lifestyle, and long-term goals. You’ll review visual models and walk through the process like you’re reviewing architectural plans—clear, intentional, and tailored to you.
Whether we use Pitts21® self-ligating braces or Spark™ clear aligners, every phase of your treatment is engineered to follow the natural progression of a well-designed smile.
Natural esthetic smiles tend to follow the contour of the lips. Traditional orthodontics tends to create a flattoned look to the smile. We create a signature arc that matches your lower lip and gives your smile a youthful, natural and dynamic flow.
Studies show that the wider a smile is, the better. We work to reduce dark spaces at the corners of the mouth so the smile looks wider, fuller, and more natural.
We evaluate how much of the tooth shows at rest and in motion. Too little makes a smile look aged, too much can appear gummy. Our goal is a natural, balanced, and youthful display. When needed, we use precision tools like TADs or bite pads for optimal results.
Centering your smile within the face creates balance and visual symmetry. We carefully align the dental midline with the facial midline to anchor the smile within the frame of the lips.
Ideal smiles have proportionate teeth, there should be a flow in size from front to back. Dr Santucci adjusts size relationships for a more balanced and natural esthetic that flows from tooth to tooth and front to back.
Dr Santucci refines how the teeth touch side by side, creating smooth transitions from tooth to tooth and eliminates visual distractions. It’s a detail that elevates the overall symmetry and flow of the smile. This micro esthetic detailing leaves an overall natural looking beauty to the teeth.
The way your teeth come together matters and function is never overlooked. We fine-tune your bite – adjusting contact points and alignment – to create balance, protect jaw/joint health, and support long-term stability. It’s a subtle part of smile design, but it plays a major role in how your smile functions and feels every day.
We sculpt the gum line for symmetry and balance, ensuring your teeth appear even and well-contoured. The work done to properly position teeth is enhanced by perfecting the gum architecture to support the beauty created by the teeth.
Your teeth and jaw position play a major role in how your lips are supported. A properly designed smile and optimized jaw position enhances facial esthetics by gently lifting and supporting the lips in a natural, age-appropriate manner.
A beautiful smile should also be sustainable. That means creating space that supports healthy breathing, jaw posture, and long-term function. Because true orthodontic care is about more than alignment, it’s a health service and should be setting the foundation for a healthy life.
When your treatment finishes, the real impact begins. You’ll leave with more than just straight teeth—you’ll leave with a smile that functions beautifully, fits your face, and feels entirely yours.
A great result deserves to last. That’s why every new treatment at our office includes our Santucci Smile Assurance program — because we’re committed to helping you protect and maintain the beautiful results you’ve worked for.
Our program provides access to high-quality retainers designed for long-term comfort, retention and durability, ensuring your smile stays just the way you love it.
