I will be completing a 9 month invisalign course in a few months and I have been offered two forms of retention: - fixed wire - Invisalign retainer Fixed would be preferable but teeth would touch wire and would need "dahl principle" to solve. Sounds quite dramatic. With a fixed retainer if I only wore this for 12 hours a day would my teeth remain in position or would it have to be worn for longer? Can't bear thought of having to wear it for 20+ hours a day like with Invisalign braces currently
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I am sorry to hear that you are having a problem but it is impossible for the tray to make an indentation on your tooth. The pressure would only cause the tooth to move. You make have an attachemnt that has been placed but not an indentation.
While it may seem odd, most cases need some form of space management. Sometimes teeth are extracted, but often just some polishing of sides of teeth is enough. This is true for both Invisalign and regular braces.
I assume by "buttons" you mean the tooth colored attachments that engage indentations on the aligners. These are an important part of the mechanism that moves your teeth in to position - and in most cases patients adapt to them quite easily. I do find, in some cases, that I can...