Metal Mouth Message Board

Hello, I have finished my threatment (took over 2 years) with Invisalign 6 months ago. Now I have got two kind of retainers: 1. Permanent Retainers 2. Retainers which I have to wear over night (Binator) Now the question is if I can leave the retainers off which I wear over night for a few days or 1 ...

I have 18 attachments, 4 on my upper front teeth. They are only visible for you, when you are looking in the mirrow and asking yourself if someone could see them. Well, I really can understand that you are a bit scared, I was it too. I asked my husband 1000 times if he can see the attachements, the ...

I think it is only important that you will clean them after drinking. It is also importan to brush your teeth, therefore this should be no problem. Then it is not that important what you are drinking.

What you can avoid is coffee, tea, coca cola. And yes, lightly coloured drinks are the best

I haven´t had the problem with excessive salivation, but I needed about 2-3 weeks until I could speak like before. Maybe you have to wait one more week?

Good luck

Dear all, my last post was one year ago… :oops: I am now on tray 37/38 and there are only 4-5 months to go plus refinement. Today I saw the pictures of my teeth before the treatment :shock: – first time since the last year. I am so happy that I have started the treatment. My teeth are looking s...

Trax 11/48 Hi everyone, I am now on tray 11 and still feeling really good with Invisalign. Until today no one noticed my aligners and no one noticed my elastics!! On my last appointment my ortho told me that I should no more put the elastics in the whole day long, only for 14hours because everythin...

Tray 5/48 Hi, I am already on tray 5, therefore it is time to give you an update….. With Invisalign I feel really comfortable! No one has noticed the aligners yet, I can eat everything I want. Cleaning the teeth is sometimes difficult, because of the gaps between my molars I´ve got now. One mola...

The attachements are not great, but you can live with them. I have 18 (!!!) attachements and they don´t disturb me in any way.... The important thing is that with the attachements she will have later better results (they are not for trying to rush things). Give her a few days, she will feel ok with...

Hi,

this is a picture of a website with Invisalign and the elastics.



The otho cuts the aligner with a scissors (?), after that you can fix the elastics in it. To put them in is really difficult

With the first 8 trays my rear molars (l/r) will move back. Then the next one will follow. My ortho told me that if I would have no elastics I will get an overbite / gap. The elastics will fix that and I have to wear them the whole treatment to get a great result. The best result I will get wearing ...

Hi, today I am on tray 4 and I got my elastics. :evil: I was sitting there 10 minutes until I was able to put the elastics in. It is really horrible put them in, but I think after a few day it should go on better. The worse thing is, the I am in panic, that everyone is able to see the elastics. You ...

Tray 2/48 Changing the old trays with the new one was really painful :x . At first it seemed that the aligners doesn’t fit, but they fit really perfect. The first 3 days (!) I didn’t like to change the aligners because that hurts so much. Good for me, because of this I’ve already lost weight....

Yesterday I was thinking about my first appointment and I remembered that they told me to leave the aligners in if they have only a little tear. I looked on the orthos website and found out, that a tear of 2-3 millimetres should be OK. Because of mine is somewhere in the middle and the pressure is l...

I am going to panic a little bit :yikes: …… this Saturday evening I found a little tear on the upper aligner. The tear is in the middle of the aligner between my two front teeth where I have a gap (pics of my teeth on the www button, 1st page). It is about 1 millimetre and it is not on the borde...

I have 18 attachments and they are horizontal and vertical. To get the aligners off, I am working from back to middle on both sides. Then I am trying to put the aligner on the front teeth off. That was the best way for me and my ortho told me to be a little bit carefull with the aligners, because of...