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Hi Folks! I just got Invisalign last week! My back story is - I recently had clear braces which were removed in August of this year after only 11 months. I did not feel my teeth were ready to be de-braced but my Ortho insisted that I was done and my teeth would look good after the braces come off. L...

Hi All - looks like I'll be back for more Ortho treatment. I posted about a month ago how I was not happy with how my first round of braces turned out (braces were removed August 9 of this year). I went back to my original treating Ortho to discuss my unhappiness with my braces results. I was a good...

Hi All! I got my braces off on August 9th and I am unhappy with the results. My teeth flare out too much and one tooth is still crooked. I was treated with IPR for crowding, no extractions were done. I have 2 appointments coming up. One this evening with a Ortho that did not treat me - I just am loo...

Hi All! I got my braces off on August 9th and I am unhappy with the results. My teeth flare out too much and one tooth is still crooked. I was treated with IPR for crowding, no extractions were done. I have 2 appointments coming up. One this evening with a Ortho that did not treat me - I just am loo...

Thank you for the feedback! I hope your braces journey is over soon!!!!!!

Braces off after 11 short months. I’m not thrilled with my results. Trying to embrace my new look, I have some flaring and an over-jet (my original issue was overcrowding treated with IPR). Here is a link to the pics

https://imgur.com/gallery/G85p9wn

I welcome any feedback. Thank you!

Thank you! Here is link to pics -

https://imgur.com/gallery/G85p9wn

I’m not really on board for extractions at this point - interproximal reduction has already been done - I fear that along with extractions would ‘collapse’ my face in too much and age me. I’m 60!!...blessed with good genes and I can easily pass for 50 (that’s young right 😜). I think my only hope wou...

Thank you for your replies. The original plan was to have 2 teeth extracted - one from upper and one from lower. Got all the way into the chair on the scheduled extraction appt and the Ortho decided it wasn’t needed, My teeth had had so much movement with just 3 months with braces on he decided to g...

I had braces for 11 months for overcrowding (originally expected to have them for 18 months). Ortho did Interproximal reductions to bring teeth into alignment. When he started to talk about de-banding I told him on several occasions that my teeth looked flared/ overjet and my one front tooth still l...

Woooo Hooooo, just had to share! OMG can't wait! It's going to feel so weird not having braces!

My next Ortho appointment is in 4 days. I will run out of bands by the end of the day today. I'm not able to stop into the ortho office before my next appointment in 4 days to pick up more. Also...it's too late to order some off the internet. So looks like I"ll be rubber band free for about 3 1...

Howdy, I'm on my last wire and have elastics from top canines to back molars. My front teeth are starting to have a flared look! I did not have extractions - I had the IPR scaling and filing of teeth to make room for overcrowding and one fang tooth. Now I'm starting to freak out thinking my ortho ha...

Hi All! I'm new to the forum. I've had my braces for almost 8 months - which has gone by surprisingly fast! Last night I just had my final wire put on! Exciting! Originally my ortho said possibly 18 months in braces. Now he said that I might only have 4 more months to go! Wow, that's fast. Is ortho ...