My Dog Chewed Up my First Set of Invisalign Bottom Tray. I Have Been Wearing Them for a Week and 2 Days?

For every Invisalign case, we give our patients a set of Invisalign retainers to wear just at night for the rest of their life. After spending money and time you do not want to go back and let your teeth shift. Wearing retainers every night is more than enough, it will protect your teeth also...

I am sorry to hear that you are having a problem but it is impossible for the tray to make an indentation on your tooth.  The pressure would only cause the tooth to move.  You make have an attachemnt that has been placed but not an indentation.  

While it may seem odd, most cases need some form of space management.  Sometimes teeth are extracted, but often just some polishing of sides of teeth is enough.  This is true for both Invisalign and regular braces.

I assume by "buttons" you mean the tooth colored attachments that engage indentations on the aligners. These are an important part of the mechanism that moves your teeth in to position - and in most cases patients adapt to them quite easily. I do find, in some cases, that I can...

While Invisalign CAN widen your arch, it is limited in the amount it can do so. Your Invisalign dentist should be able to get you a "ClinChek" which will show you graphically exactly how much they predict your teeth will be able to be moved. Your dentist will charge you for this...

Jaw pain is not usual, but not unheard of when beginning Invisalign treatment. When it does occur, I generally ask patients to reduce the number of hours the aligners are worn each day - say to twelve hours. This usually allows the problem to resolve itself. Then when the patient is comfortable...