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Round tripping is moving a tooth/teeth in a direction opposite to where it should go before moving it in the correct direction to align that tooth. Sometimes this is necessary to allow adjacent teeth to move to their positions or move teeth into a place to allow interproximal reduction.Whether this occurs in your Invisalign treatment depends on your Invisalign provider and on the patient's occlusion.
Round tripping is most commonly seen in the lower anterior crowding situation. Similar to an airline ticket where you start in one city and then return, with Invisalign one is moving teeth away, lining them up, and then returning to the original spot (but rotated or some other improvement).Most Invisalign providers can do this, but not all cases need it.
It is charged up front, as all the aligners are created at once. This is probably the single biggest drawback to Invisalign, as it is a flat fee and 100% due at the initial onset.
If I am correct, the tooth of which you speak is a lateral incisor. These little rascals can be difficult to reposition with Invisalign since the neighboring teeth are so much bigger and the plastic of the aligners seems to by-pass the laterals in efficiency. But even with this...
There really IS a difference between providers, but it may seem minor. Of course, there is the office part (staff greeting you, general feelings of office, convenient location etc), but a more experienced provider may be able to direct Align (Invisalign Inc) as to how the case should progress. ...
