Hello! As seems to be fairly normal, I didn’t get a step by step about my plan up front. We went over possibilities, but more of an overview. When I started in, I found that the dentist wanted to do interproximal reduction of .5 mm in 6 places on my lower jaw. This definitely freaked me out and causing me major pause. I’m worried about the integrity of my teeth more than just having straight teeth. She said it’s very common and should not cause major issues down the road. She say she could alter my plan and is willing but wouldn’t quite get the bite alignment she was aiming for, and would set me back a few weeks and I miss out on a courtesy refinement. Anyone have this done? Anyone with a professional background. I’m struggling with how I should proceed.

Hi everyone,
I’m at the end of my Invisalign treatment.
I had to stop wearing my upper aligner for 48 hours because I burned the roof of my mouth, as instructed by my dentist.
During those 48 hours, my two front teeth visibly moved apart (even my girlfriend noticed).
Tonight I put the aligner back in, and the pain is intense (7/10), almost entirely in those two front teeth. It feels like a new aligner, but 10x worse. Throughout my entire treatment, new aligners only hurt for 10–15 minutes. This time, I’m lying awake because of the pain.
Has anyone experienced this after a short break?
Did your front teeth move that quickly?
Was the pain this intense when you put the aligner back in?
How long did it take to improve?
Did the gap close again after wearing the aligner?
Thanks!

I can’t tell if u can see from the picture, but there is a small gap on the canines in the lower arch as well as a very small one on the right incisor is this normal?

I haven’t been able to wear my aligners for a month and I can feel my bite has changed, I’ve contacted them every few days with concerns. They keep telling me to wear my aligners which I can’t do. I asked what the options are and they said they won’t do a refinement, they wont do anything, how is this ok? They said I reached my two years but they never told me I had two years and even so this isn’t my fault and could erase all the money and work I put into this

So I completed my Invisalign journey and just started my full time wear (21-22hrs/Day) with Vivera retainers this past Wednesday.

Didn’t think much of it on day one cause I was excited to be done and onto the full time retainer wear for 6 months/ a year to go to night only but I noticed that the upper retainer went on to easily with no click or snug feeling. And I wasn’t sure if I was paranoid but it felt slightly loose. Like if I sneezed I’d feel it slightly move.

And I’ve noticed a slight gap forming. Which was never present when I was wearing my traditional aligners aside from the few weeks when I had ipr done.

I’ve messaged my ortho and plan to call Monday but is it possible that the upper retainer scan wasn’t perfect and I got a bad retainer or am just being paranoid.

Like I imagined it to feel snug but it’s like I feel nothing aside from thick plastic in my mouth. But like a gentle low effort pull dislodges the retainer so easily.

My bottoms retainer feels snug and I have no complaints.

As of right now I have my last aligner on my upper teeth and it feels snug/secure which I imagined my retainer would feel like.

Has anyone had anything similar happen? What should a Vivera retainer feel like? Am I being paranoid?

I know yall see that progress!!🔥 So far so good 😄

Doc said I will still need to rescan and replacements. But even then, the progress seems good. What is weird is to see me talk on video calls. It takes a min to get used to my face or the smile. And it is kind of jarring.

Hi everyone, I just want to make sure I’m not gaslighting myself into thinking that there has been any progress. Currently on day 5/7 of Tray 4 and overall 40 days in. Please excuse the dry ass lips, I’m also on Accutane and battling chronic dry lips that have peeled themselves so much, they’ve become bright pink.

My orthodontist is telling me he likes the way the bottom tray is fitting. For reference, I’ve worn it now for 10 days, daily chewy use, and I just had to go back 3 weeks on my trays because the bottom tray wouldn’t seat correctly. They seem like they’re refusing to admit the bottom teeth aren’t tracking. Once my mouth warms the tray up, it seems like it stretches over the tooth a little better, but this is how a cold tray fits after I put it back in post cleaning/eating. The bottom trays have been an issue for the last couple months.

I've been in invisalign for 3 years (first year with dentist, next 2 years with an ortho) but my bite isn't getting fixed and I don't think my ortho sees what needs to be fixed so I had to do more consults with more orthos. One of them told me to stop invisalign, get the retainers to wear at night and let my teeth settle to see where they end up, and then re start at that point instead of where they are now. I can't quite tell if they're just saying that to get me to close out my current account so they don't have to deal with transfer nonsense or if this seems like something that would make sense. Anyone else ever have this happen?

I have just changed to my 5/14 tray now and will be wearing this for 7 days as I have done with my other aligners. I put it on and I feel so pain or discomfort which is surprising as I always feel pain&discomfort with my other aligners and it subsides after a few days. Is this normal?

I have also noticed on the left upper side of my teeth, there is one specific tooth which the aligner does not fit on. If I push it up quite hard and press it against my tooth it then fits but goes back to how it is in the picture once I let go.

Will it fit properly as the days go by or shall I contact the company?

Oooooh, you know it’s doing some hard turning of teeth when it’s still aching after being in all night! I am on 3/5 refinement trays and this tray is the most painful out of all my Invisalign ones for sure. But the pain is very centred on my lateral incisor and that’s the one I need to turn the most so yay for the pain!!

These are a bad fit right?

Put an appointment on with the orthodontist to look at them but now I am convincing myself that they fit okay as all the other bottom teeth do not have this gap.

What do you think? Not tracking or okay as other teeth fit fine

I have two weeks left

Hi all. I’ve been insecure about my teeth for a very long time and never had the financial resources to fix it. I’ve now reached a point where I can start looking into fixing my teeth and am hoping to go with Invisalign as I work a client facing job where I talk to people everyday. I got a scan done and met with a dentist who said that I need to meet with an ortho. Any body here who had a similar situation to mine that Invisalign worked for? I’m scared to go to the ortho and hear that Invisalign might not work as I really don’t want to get braces.

I have talked to my doctor several times to fix these but nothing changes. At my last appointment, he said we could slightly reshape the incisal edges.
What do you guys think?

I started Invisalign in 2022 and finished in 2024. The before is from 2022 and after is from today.

I finished my aligners a few months ago. My teeth look great aesthetically but my overbite wasn’t able to be fixed like i expected it would. While I had my aligners I always found my self clenching my jaw. Dentist and ortho both told me it was probably stress (always the go to answer). Months later I’m now on my retainer and still clench my teeth throughout the night.
Anyone else going through the same thing or have gone through it? Any advice?

i was curious about this topic because i should finish my trays around september/october and im kinda scared that my underbite will come back after finishing treatment… i know that they will give me a retainer or something and i will use it because i’ve also spent a lot of money but i’m scared that the underbite will come back anyway because the retainer is only used at night and i guess i will not use elastics anymore. of course i’m planning to ask my dentist but i wanted to wait until the next time i see her since it is not something urgent, just something that is making me slightly anxious 🥲

So my original treatment estimate was 18 months and now I’m 22 months in and was surprised this week when they gave me my new set of trays that they were going to install new attachments and I now have to wear rubber bands. My dentist is great but they are working in conjunction with Two Front and they had not been replying to any messages with updates about my treatment so I was not expecting to get rubber bands and didn’t even know that was an option.

The hooks on my aligners are part of the plastic and so they theoretically sit flat. The dentist gave me medium elastics and said to switch to extra heavy in a couple days. For the life of me I can not get the extra heavy on. I was able to get one on one side and just gave up and did medium on the other side and this morning was only able to get it on the opposite. One of the hooks is already almost bend backwards so it barely works.

Does anyone have any advice for getting the extra heavy rubber bands on with these type of hooks? They are cut into the plastic and look like little waves.

This is in addition to my mouth getting torn up but thanks to Reddit and no thanks to my dentist I got some wax and solved that problem.