A good smile is one of the most quietly valuable things a person in the public eye owns. What is less obvious is how many famous faces have straightened their teeth without anyone noticing while it happened — which is rather the point of clear aligners. Famous or not, plenty of people would prefer to improve their smile without advertising the fact for the year or two it takes.
That is why so many performers, presenters and models have reached for clear aligners rather than fixed braces. The trays are transparent and removable, so the treatment runs quietly in the background of a working life lived in front of a camera. Below are six who have spoken publicly about their own experience.
How Invisalign works
When Align Technology introduced Invisalign, it set aside brackets and wires for a different idea: a planned sequence of clear, custom-made trays made from a smooth, BPA-free medical-grade thermoplastic. Each tray eases the teeth a fraction of a millimetre closer to where they should sit, and you move to the next in the series every week or two. There is no periodic tightening — the movement is gradual, which most people find more comfortable. And because the trays are close to invisible, the straightening happens without announcing itself, which is much of the reason public figures have favoured the approach.
Six well-known faces who chose Invisalign
Katherine Heigl
The former Grey’s Anatomy star straightened her teeth ahead of her wedding in 2007. Few people knew she was wearing aligners until she mentioned it herself in a pre-wedding interview — a neat illustration of how discreet the trays can be in the run-up to a day when every photograph counts.
Justin Bieber
The singer has spoken openly about using clear aligners to straighten his top and bottom teeth, describing the experience in a streamed video. He wore them until his teeth reached the alignment now familiar from countless magazine covers.
Gisele Bündchen
Even a supermodel’s teeth can drift over time. Bündchen has told interviewers she noticed slight movement in her smile and chose aligners to bring it back into line, wearing them at night and taking advantage of the system’s flexibility.
Kendall Jenner
Fitted for aligners at seventeen, the model wanted to refine her teeth a little further. Their near-invisibility meant she could wear them without the cameras picking them up — discretion being, by her account, a large part of the appeal.
Anna Kendrick
The actress and singer began using Invisalign in 2013 to straighten her teeth, and at one point shared a customised aligner case a film crew had made for her. A small, characteristically good-humoured glimpse of treatment that otherwise went unseen.
Winnie Harlow
The Canadian model and former America’s Next Top Model contestant announced on Instagram that she was starting Invisalign. Her post spoke less about appearance than about confidence and being open to making a change — a reminder that the motivation is often quieter than it looks from the outside.
The appeal is not invisibility for its own sake. It is that the treatment fits around a life rather than the other way round.
Clear aligners at Orchard Scotts Dental
Discretion matters, but it is not the whole story. A straightened smile still has to function — the bite has to meet evenly, the result has to stay healthy, and the finished arrangement has to belong on your face rather than on a template. Those three considerations, biology, function and aesthetics, guide how we plan every case from the first scan.
Our clinic was appointed an Invisalign provider in Singapore in 2014, and our dentists have planned thousands of cases since. We use an intra-oral scanner rather than putty moulds, which makes the assessment more comfortable and the planning more precise.
If you are weighing up clear aligners — whether or not your work puts you in front of a camera — the useful next step is a proper assessment of your bite, your teeth and your goals. Arrange a consultation and we will tell you, plainly, whether aligners are the right tool for the result you are after.
