Invisalign: Stories

I have just read a few of these comments, I got invisalign yesterday and my mouth is tender... The worst thing was the jagged edges making the inside of my mouth sore, so I googled it and there was some advice saying,you can just file them down if the edges are sharp! I took mine,out, got a nail file and rubbed it a bit and its ugh better now! Good luck every one!

I got mine earlier today and I'm in quite a bit of pain every time I bite down or take them out and put them back in. My bottom tray is very jagged on the bottom and I keep scraping my tongue on it. My front top two teeth are crooked-- one of them is so bad that it sticks out at a 30 degree angle. The invisalign is obviously working already. All I can feel from most of my teeth is the pressure. The top front tooth however is sooo painful!!!! Here's to hoping it gets better!!!!!!!

i got mine yesterday and the bottom one rubs against the inside of my lip and it make its raw and bleed and pain is terrible. Is this normal?

I got my first set of Aligners on April 10th and the pain was pretty intense taking them out to eat, but after a few days and popping ibuprofen, I was good!! Ive had them a week now and taking them in and out has been a breeze. Also, I can definitely feel my teeth moving, especially at night when Im sleeping.

I used invisalign a few years ago and i remember that pain. . Ouch! But it does get better and now I only wear my retainers at night. Make sure you kind of start at the back and slowly pull them around while pulling them off. Yes, that does hurt those first couple of weeks, but after that it gets way easier. .. good luck!

I just got my first set of invisalign trays today and they are terrible. When I eat the buttons on my teeth jam into my lower lip. Taking the upper tray off sends an excrutiating pain thru one of my teeth on the that lasts for a little while. The bottom so far is fine. Putting the upper tray back in is really uncomfortable as well. It feels like these trays are cutting off the blood supply to my teeth because they are so tight! Not sure if I can get thru 9 months of this torture!!

I've been reading all the comments and I am both nervous and excited to get my invisalign in a couple weeks. Had my front teeth shaved down to make room, uncomfortable for sure but made it through. Don't know how many trays I will end up with but it looks like 2 years of treatment. I didn't do any research about it before I went in (sad to say I was hoping for a quick fix not invisalign so didn't even think about it). Looking at the food/eating habits required, I will greatly have to change my "grazing" eating habits........Any advice out there?

So you take them out to eat, but what about when you drink anything other that water? do you have to take the trays out for a glass of sweet tea? What about water with a squirt of Mio?

I received my first trays 3 days ago and I felt pressure and noticed that my teeth were sensitive after I first took them out. I took some Advil and I was okay for the rest of the day. Now that I'm on day 3 I do not take anything and the little pressure goes away instantly.

I read all these post last night before getting my first set of trays today and was super scared I was going to be in so much pain today. I will give you the most honest review I can, because I as you are, was curious about Invislign. I got my first tray today and I was at my ortho's office for less than 30 minutes. The hygenist popped them in and I was like "thats all?" The pain on a real scale of 1-10 was a 1. There was pressure but as far as pain. None. Now I have had toothaches in my life that made me want to rip my head off and throw it in the closet but thus far...Invisilign is AWESOME! I talk a little funny now but who cares! Worse things have happened :) I get my buttons put on in 2 weeks and it is a total of 16! I will come back to update once that happens. Good Luck to you all. I was also able to see the clincheck which shows the progression of my teeth thru my treatment. AND I found out instead of two years of treatment- it is 1 year and 1 week! I'm super excited. (BTW) I have a class iii open bite due to thumb sucking as a youngster.

I am a dental hygienist as well as a wearer of Invisalign. Do not I repeat do not eat with the trays in! It would be more beneficial to take them out for longer periods of time and prolong your treatment as opposed to getting decay on the majority of teeth! The sugar and acid become trapped under the trays and can cause rampant cavities! The discomfort is very normal, take some Aleve. I aways suggest placing new trays on at night before bedtime. Hope this helps.

Im on my 2nd day and i just feel this intense pain on my upper teeth not my lower, I ice it a lot, but i still feel that pressure. besides icing and medication is there a better way?

I get the impression that Dentists forget to mention the level of discomfort in those first few days. Ugh.. it's awful. I'm only on day 3, and I'm doing everything I can to NOT take them out (hence, very little food), but I have noticed that I can get them out now without having my eyes water up and my mouth generate a whole ton of saliva.

I'm also a little bummed about the number of buttons. I ended up with 16 buttons! Are these on for the life of the invisilign treatment, or are they to be taken off at some point? I'm betting I have them for the whole time. :(

25 trays... 1 year. In the end, I hope to have straight nice teeth. I wonder if I need to keep my fingers crossed the whole time. :)

Im crying while writing this. I've see the same dentist since I was 10. I'm now 55. Diabetic type 2. My dentist put lumineers on my to teeth. Beautiful white straight teeth. I was so happy to smile. My dentist retired and sold his practice to another dentist. Will call him Dr T. He gave me 3 new crowns lower right. I continued to have severe pain. He kept using the laser to calm the nerves. After a couple of months I was ok. Without my permission he remove a small about size of a dot filling behind my front tooth. Didn't need to it was fine. Next, he told me I had alot of bone loss in the upper front area of my teeth due to my diabetes. Did not refer me at all to the periodontist. I started noticing in between the two front teeth i had just a very small space near the upper gum. He went around the corner after taking an impression of my teeth and had made me a "homade" plastic tray that he said was an invisalign tray. Told me this would fix the problem. It was very rough and had scratches all over the front. Told me to wear them 24/7. I was in severe pain and kept talking to him about it and each time I saw him he made it tighter. My friend who is a dentist was in total shock and told me that it is not an invisilign and not to put it back in. As I understand from 3 dentist I talked to they also were in shock and said that my impression should have been sent to the invisilign lab not rigged up in his office. I found another dentist who took X-rays and saw the bone loss and said he should have imideantly ref me to a periodontist. I saw him too. Now I have a huge gap between several of my front teeth. One is bulging forward. They are all very very loose. I can barely brush my teeth without crying, I can't even bite into a piece of bologna. My food has to be cut in tiny pieces and I can only chew on my right side. The peridontist has ref me to an oral surgeon to have ALL of my upper teeth pulled. He said so few are salvageable. Then I have to pay for dentures. I am so hurt and losing my mind. I can't believe just 6 months ago I had perfect Hollywood white straight teeth with NO problems. He has been sending me threating statements saying if I don't pay full amount due (2,000.00) he is turning me over to collections. I use oxcycodone prescribed by my back doctor just so i won't be hurting all day long. I don't know what to do. I need help from someone. HELP!!

I put in my 4th tray which has no button indentations, yet I have buttons. My last tray had button indents. Was I given faulty trays? The trays no longer sit flush against my teeth with the buttons. Is this normal

I am currently on my refinements tray 2. I started in Aug'11 with 12 trays for upper and 16 trays for lower. I finished my uppers with great results, but had to back track to tray 10 on my lowers because no changes had happened from trays 10-16. Apparently the lower trays have to be on longer when you are twisting a tooth into position. Since that tooth was not twisting fast enough, when I would change to a new tray the button would not lock into place. That same tooth also was an anchor point. My lower trays are now on a three week duration instead of two. For my upper refinements, some IPR's had to be done. The process of shaving away some space did not hurt but was uncomfortable.
As far as pain, on my very first tray I had put on at the dentist office. I only felt pressure. But later that night for dinner I had the hardest time taking them off, but not because they were stuck or hard to remove, but because my teeth hurt like **** and very extremely sensitive at that point. I still remember that day thinking to myself "what did I get myself into? I can't deal with this pain and the feeling of claustrophobic anxieties." But of course the pain would go away as the days go by. By the time I got to tray 4, no pain upon changing.

I have learned before eating, wait 10 minutes to calm the sensitivity. Use natural fluoride free and sodium lauryl sulfate free toothpaste. Why? I don't believe the ADA at all. I took biology and chemistry and as a critical thinker and the plenty of research done by reputable sources proves that fluoride does more harm than good. Fluoride is a poison and sodium lauryl sulfate dries your mouth preventing saliva from re-mineralizing your teeth.
Change to your new trays before you go to bed. Only drink water with your trays on. If you drink anything else, be it sugary or acidic you run the risk of cavities at an accelerated pace or discoloration or even damage to your trays.

I'd like to know more about the teeth "shaving" to make more room for the teeth to move. Since I read hear that it was so painful, I think I should get more info from my orthodontist. Glad I read about the pain as it was something I didn't even truly think about. Any information would be helpful.