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With most of the insurance companies you have a life time maximum for Orthodontic benefit. It usually ranges from $1000-2500. It is also, in most cases, paid out as percentage of the orthodontic fees charged by your dentist/orthodontist. Usually it is 50%. So, for example, if your doctor charged $5000 then you have utilized all your benefits which were $2500.Now, this is true if you stay with the existing insurance. So, if you change jobs and now have different insurance company providing Orthodontic coverage then you can get Invisalign treatment and they new company will pay out the percentage of the fee depending on the benefit.
The short answer would be: No.Usually insurance with ortho deals with lifetime maximums, and the max is usually used up during the first go-round. If you desired braces again later on and still had the same insurance, you likely would have zero benefits available to you.Odds are that when you do ortho again, you will have a different insurance. But if you just got brackets off and are unhappy and want Invisalign instead, there likely is no coverage.
I have seen this before with just a few patients. The pain comes from teeth grinding during the day and at night. You should stop clenching your teeth during the day and at night. You will eventually get over it and you will stop clenching your teeth when your body decides that the aligners are...
It depends. I tell my patients if they have good looking teeth that are crooked and not worn/chipped -- do Invisalign. If the teeth are worn/chipped/cracked and not too crooked - do veneers. If they are very crooked and worn and chipped - do both. When doing both - do Invisalign first. Move the...
As an old wise man once said " if you take the short route to get to your destination, you may take the wrong path and miss it altogether" So rushing Invisalign in crowded cases is not recommended because the errors increase and you end up having refinement aligners. Rushing Invisalign...