Hello, I am 21 years old and never got any orthodontic treatment. I have a dental class II div. 2 malocclusion. I visited 3 invisalign practitioners and got 3 different treatment plans: - 1.5 years of invisalign + IPRs on lower arch - 15-18 months of invisalign + 4-6 months of regular braces - 2.5 years of invisalign with elastics or 1.5 years with braces (extraction of all 4 wisdom teeth and IPRs anyway) What is your opinion? Thank you for your answers!
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Have you had significant weight loss in last few months? If yes, that can affect your face as well and should prompt you to have a medical check up soon. If it's only limited to your face and jaws, invisalign is not the answer but rather conventional orthodontia perhaps combined with...
Lots of people get braces at age 14, so why would Invisalign be any different.? The reason teens don't primarily get Invisalign is because of compliance.
You have to be responsible enough to wear the aligners 22 hours a day, not loose them and change them when you are supposed to...
Invisalign sometimes works better than braces for open bites...posterior crossbites...not so much!
Many times with adults we have to settle for a B rather than an A result...in your case Invisalign might give you what you want, even though the results may not be perfect....