“Don't Waste Your Money”

I tried Invisalign thinking it would be preferable to wearing metal on my teeth. The Aligners do move your teeth around, based on my experience, but they don't actually *straighten* them. After I went through an entire course of Aligners (9 months), I went back to my dentist to ask why my teeth weren't straight. He mumbled something about how it's just a "cosmetic procedure", and he offered to file down my teeth! I didn't pay thousands of dollars for him to file my teeth down. I wasn't being overly picky, I just wanted my teeth to be straighter, and here he was making excuses or trying to blow me off with this BS.

His assistant mentioned something about doing a "refinement". That's where they do another round of Aligners to try to correct the problems. He gave his assistant a dirty look. So I did a "refinement", and it still didn't straighten my teeth.

It's weird. It's like I have these two or three teeth that are clearly, obviously crooked. And the Aligners were moving all the other teeth around, straightening them a little bit, but it leaves these two or three teeth alone. I was always wondering, if they CAN move the teeth around, then WHY don't they correct these crooked ones? I asked my dentist repeatedly about when the Aligners were going to correct those teeth, and he was always promising "later", or giving me these evasive, BS responses. I never could get a straight answer out of him. I wasted a year and thousands of dollars, and my teeth aren't straight.

Anyway, long story short. Don't waste your money on Invisalign. Just go to a regular orthodontist and get braces. If you're concerned about appearances while you're wearing them, then get the concealed braces. Invisalign just doesn't work.