Can You Do Teeth Whitening Treatment if You Have Invsalign with Attachments?

With the number of attachments on your teeth, I would advise you to wait until the attachments are removed (which could occur near the end of your treatment) before attempting to whiten your teeth.  The area of the tooth beneath the attachments will not lighten, so you will have to whiten after these attachments are removed.  My patients whiten very often during ClearCorrect or Invisalign treatment (in fact, we throw in the bleaching at no cost during treatment), but I don't recommend whitening when attachments are on the teeth.  If attachments are present during the entire phase of treatment, I make whitening trays after treatment so that the patient can get the desired result post-treatment (again, I throw this in at no cost to the patient).  Whitening is more effective when the teeth are aligned than when they are crooked or crowded.

With invisalign attachments you can definitely whiten. The problem is that if done in the middle of treatment and the attachments are not made with translucent resin your teeth will whiten but the attachments will stand out more as they will not change colour. I usually recommend my invisalign patients wait until they reach the last 2 aligners before undergoing the bleaching. Hope this helps.

This is a great question and once upon a time you needed to wait.  HOWEVER, there is a new product on the market by Ultradent-It is a whitening tray for braces.  The current thought is that teeth will whiten even with the tads on or braces on.  ASK your dentist if they can look into it for you.  Once you complete your care, you can always whiten more-Good luck-Dr. Wendy