If I Have a Impacted Tooth Can Invisalign Be Used to Make the Space Bigger for an Implant?

Short answer: yes, yes, yes

Long answer: once you have elected to have your primanry tooth removed and your impacted tooth removed (assuming there are no other issues) Invisalign is a wonderful treatment options for you to open hold space for an implant. It is also very easy to add a fake tooth to the tray so that while you are wearing the trays you have a tooth not a gap. There are even ways to make one so that there is a tooth like shape in your mouth while the trays are out.
 

Your best beat is to start the Invisalign Records process and get to the clincheck and then decided if it is exceptable or not. The clincheck is a computer simulated movie of what your teeth will do and look like.

If you have an impacted canine tooth there are 2 scenarios:

1) The canine tooth cannot be brought into function with braces therefore 3 options:

i) Extract impacted canine and baby canine use braces to create space and place implant.                                      ii) Extract impacted canine and baby canine use Invisalign to create space and place implant.                        

iii) Extract impacted canine and baby canine replace canine with a Fixed Partial Denture(Bridge)

2) The impacted canine tooth can be brought into function using braces:

i) Extracted baby canine and use braces to bring down the adult canine into position.

As you can see there are a few options.  Invisalign can be used to move the teeth and roots so that an implant can be placed.  You need to explore all options to know which is the best for you.

 

Unlike popular belief, Invisalign can work to perform variety of complex tooth movements provided you have a highly experienced invisalign provider using proper attachments of good thickness to insure bodily movement of tooth and the roots as opposed to just tilting the top of the teeth.  Also experience of your invisalign provider in setting up clincheck computer modeling software taking account everything seen on x-rays, models, and photos is very important.   We have also found that patient compliance is very critical in achieving exceptional outcome.   For certain cases where teeth do not follow aligners, we have innovated our own techniques using tiny invisible elastics from tooth to tooth or from tooth to aligner to help proper movements.