Can a 10mm overbite be corrected with 10mm of IPR spaced out between all teeth with Invisalign? (photo)

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IPR is supposedly going to be done throughout the treatment not before. What do you guys think?

Raj Kumar, BDS, LDSRCS · Answer

You can never reduce a 10mm overjet with 10mm enamel spacings, which would mean 0.5mm gaps between 20 upper teeth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!MY opinion is little or no spacings, but having 2 upper teeth extracted.Your lower teeth may also need realigning as well.I would definitely ask your dentist for an extraction scan to be done

Robert Waxler, DMD, MS · Answer

It is impossible to get this much overjet reduction with IPR onlyYou might get some additional improvement with rounding out the lower teeth and moving them forward and more if you use elastic bands but just doing IPR could not possibly correct such a sever overjet unless you have upper spaces to begin with

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