The Braces Boutique

Oak Park & Skokie · Your neighborhood orthodontist

The smile is the point. The year should be easy.

Braces and Invisalign for children, teenagers and adults, from an Invisalign Preferred Provider. Start with a free consultation, in the office or from your phone.

No referral needed. Most major insurance accepted.

The Oak Park office: exposed brick, a moss wall in the shape of the Braces Boutique logo, and a wood reception desk.
161 N. Marion St Oak Park, and a second office in Skokie
Preferred provider Invisalign Provider Member, American Association of Orthodontists American Dental Association Chicago Dental Society

Two ways to do it

Braces or Invisalign.

Most people arrive already hoping for one of them. The honest answer is that it depends on what your teeth are actually doing, which takes about twenty minutes to find out and costs nothing.

Braces

Fixed, and they work on everything.

Brackets and a wire, adjusted as your teeth move. Nothing to remember, nothing to lose, and nothing you have to be disciplined about.

  • Handles the complicated cases that aligners cannot
  • Works whether or not a teenager cooperates
  • Adjustments every few weeks, quick visits
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Invisalign · Preferred Provider

Clear, removable, and mostly invisible.

A series of clear aligners you change on a schedule. They come out to eat and to brush, which is the best and the hardest thing about them.

  • Hard to notice at work or at school
  • No food restrictions, because they come out
  • Only works if they are worn, most of every day
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We are an Invisalign Preferred Provider, which means we do enough of them to be good at them. That is not a reason to choose them over braces, and we will say so if braces are the better answer for you.

What actually happens

Four moments, and a lot of ordinary weeks in between.

Nobody explains this part, so people put off the first appointment for years. Here is the whole thing.

Stage 1 of 4

The consultation

Free, about twenty minutes. We look, we take images, and you leave knowing whether you need treatment at all, which option fits, and what it costs. Nobody is asked to decide anything that day.

How long treatment takes is different for every mouth, so we will not put a number on this page. You will get a real estimate for your own teeth at the consultation, before you commit to anything.

The offices

Not a clinic that feels like a clinic.

Insurance and cost

The money conversation, early.

We are a preferred provider with most major plans, so your benefit usually goes further here than out of network. Bring your card to the consultation and we will check it for you while you are in the chair.

If there is no orthodontic benefit on your plan, there are payment plans. Ask at the consultation. It is a normal question and everybody asks it.

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Preferred provider with

  • Aetna
  • Delta Dental
  • Cigna
  • Guardian
  • MetLife
  • Humana
  • UnitedHealthcare
  • Principal
  • Lincoln Financial

Plans change. If yours is not listed, call the office and ask, because the list is not the same thing as your specific policy.

Two offices

Oak Park and Skokie.

Oak Park

Address
161 N. Marion Street
Oak Park, IL 60301
Phone
(708) 613-5023
Hours
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Skokie

Address
7923 Lincoln Ave #200, 2nd floor
Skokie, IL 60077
Phone
(847) 999-0774
Hours
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The consultation is free. That is the whole risk.

Twenty minutes, no referral, no obligation, and you leave knowing what your teeth need and what it would cost. Book online, or call the office nearest you.

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