I recently started Invisalign and when I received my first set of trays, I was also given a few plastic sticks called chewies. My dentist told me I should use them an hour a day so that my aligner fit snug and also to stimulate the bone and tissue. I used to be a gum chewer and so I enjoy biting on my chewies throughout the day, maybe for 3 hours total. My question is, can you overuse chewies? Will chewing them often have a negative effect?
I got 15 Invisalign attachments put on today. 9 upper, 6 lower. Mostly all in the back/sides. Without the aligners over them, they are very rough (not sharp). It's also very difficult to eat now. It's hard to chew, and I keep biting my bottom lip instead of the food. Is this normal? Will it get better? Thanks!
I wore the my first tray for 2 weeks with no attachments, and today I just got my second tray, and the attachments on. I have 3 on each side of the outside top, and 3 on each side of the outside bottom. I tried eating lunch, but it seems like I'm not able to close my jaws completely because of the attachments. My overbite gets stuck on the outside bottom attachments, and I'm not able to chew. With the attachments wear down in a few days? Or should I contact my Ortho to get this fixed?
I have started invisalign treatment 19 trays ago (2 weeks per tray) and just finished it, but now I cannot chew properly especially on the right side, it feels that my lower right molars turning inward. In short upper and lower molars do not meet after finishing the 19 tray treatment plan. On the atteched pictures I can only see that the trays are taking my teeth to the wrong direction. My teeth are seem to be doing what the trays were designed for. Is this treatment plan correct?
I finished my first round of Invisilign, and my back teeth did not touch, only my front teeth. This caused problems chewing. Now I'm on my refinement trays (9 months) but I'm worried that this problem won't be corrected. My ortho made the offhanded comment that this is 'common in Invisilign patients,' and didn't seem concerned, saying that your back teeth don't really need to have contact, anyway. Can you reassure me?
I am on my third set of tray and today I had to VERY large wedge-shaped attachments put on the back side of my upper two front teeth, to fix an overbite. Without the trays in my bottom two teeth hit these attachments almost immediately upon closing my mouth therefor preventing my back teeth from closing together. This prevents me from being able to grind or chew my food. I called and the dental assistant says this is normal and I will get used to it. It's not painful, just impossible to chew.
I have this constant urge to chew on my plastic invisalign trays. My jaws are always clenched and I am always chewing/grinding. Especially after the first week or so of wearing the trays, when the trays are a little looser. When I chew on them, they "pop" almost like popping chewing gum. It's driving me crazy and I am only on my 4th set of trays.
Reason for braces: no molar contact. On tray 11 of 24, front teeth are straighter, but still no molar contact yet. Is that OK? Top front teeth rotated over the years so the arch narrowed. Night clenching kept things pretty well in place, but eventually my lower jaw couldn't move back any further and I was losing the ability to chew on my molars much at all. Then I got Invisaligns so although my teeth are getting straighter, the uppers and lowers are completely independent and the gap between upper and lower molars is even wider. Is this wrong or normal?