Expensive gadget - won't properly straighten your teeth
I've recently completed my invisalign treatment (lite upgraded to full) and I can honestly say it's an expensive gadget rather than an effective orthodontics device. I really wish I had gone for traditional fixed braces - why?
1. To make invisalign somewhat effective you must wear it 22hrs a day. This means taking it out several times a day to eat and drink - natural human behaviour, followed by having to brush and floss your teeth before putting them back on. Whenever invisalign is off your teeth, it doesn't do the job cause your teeth will try and shift into the old position. Now imagine all your daily activities and having to do the invisalign procedure on top of those, think about how you'd feel having to take out braces every time you want to eat or drink anything (except water), then having to brush your teeth before being able to put it back on. It's simply not sustainable and trust me, after 6 mts you're well fed up with this.
On the contrary, fixed braces are there at ALL TIMES whether you eat or not, whether you brush your teeth or not - this really does make a difference.
2. Invisalign is a one single plastic entity so allows for limited teeth movement. Fixed braces, due to their construction, naturally allow for better manipulation of individual tooth.
My teeth weren't even that crooked but one of my front teeth didn't fit into the jaw so only partially grew out of the jaw and was twisted. The orthodontist said that invisalign will sort this and advised the lite version. My treatment was to take c. 6 mts. It ended up taking nearly 1.5 yrs, partially due to the pandemic but mostly because the lite braces didn't manage to shift my crooked tooth and I was switched to the full option. To be honest, the full invisalign felt like a much better tailored set of braces. Even that one didn't do a job I'd be 100% happy with.
3. Lengthy and inefficient process - every time there is anything wrong and you need a new set of braces produced, from your orthodontics appointment to receiving the braces it'll take c. a month - this is another delay to your treatment meaning you're wearing your old braces 'in vain' - they're no producing further progress but you can't stop as your teeth will start shifting back to the old position.
If wish I could turn back time, get an effective treatment with fixed braces and have my teeth the way I want them.
7 de junho de 2021
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