I had a small gap between my tooth and tray when I put my first tray in. I'm not on my 12th tray out of 14 and the gap has just got worse! I feel like the tooth hasn't moved at all, the attachments isn't in the right place anymore it's way higher than the little bubble it should be in. I mention it to my dentist every time I see her and she just says the tooths just got more room to move now. Is she right?? I thought it meant the tooth isn't tracking and I need refinement trays??
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N. Summer Lerch, DDS, FAGD - Account Suspended says:
Hi There,We are love Invisalign here. We have been providers for about 8 years. We treat easy to very hard cases. We include the kind of cases like yours where the teeth have to be intruded, moved past each other and then brought back down to correct a cross-bite, like what exists where your s...
Invisalign is an orthodontic appliance, it will move teeth. In order to appreciably broaden or widen a smile you need an orthopedic appliance. The reason your smile is narrow is because your dental arch is narrow. The only way to appreciably widen your smile is to widen your dental arch; this...
This is a tricky question. The answer depends upon how much bone you have on the side of the teeth in crossbite. Invisalign will move the teeth but if the tooth reaches the surface of the bone, it will move right on through and out of the bone creating a big problem. You should have a CBCT image...