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Looking for Perfect Teeth - Bucharest, Romania
UPDATED FROM H.lks
6 months post
Not happy! tray 12
$5,000
So it's been a while since i last posted anything! I have been waiting for some positive results but so far the only results I am seeing are the opposite of positive, the least to say. I am on my 12th trays now and my teeth are seriously looking more and more awful as i advance from one tray to another, and the problem is that I am not in Romania at the moment and there is no way for me to consult my orthodontist about this issue that has been really freaking me out. I am gonna attach a picture of how my teeth look today and I hope you guys could give me a feedback, I am truly troubled by this, I have 11 trays left and I feel like I am starting to regret going through this invisalign journey. I am still hoping this will all go away and that i will see the results I am looking for by the end of it.
Replies (5)
July 19, 2014
Hmmm...I hope this is a case of "getting worse before it gets better". I would definitely try to contact your ortho when you can.
March 20, 2015
Hi,
Some areas of my teeth look worse than before I started also. I am on tray #16 of 24. My ortho explained that this is normal since teeth get moved in sections. Right now, my upper left front tooth is sticking out to make room for my left tooth next to it to rotate. No one notices this but me, since it is only apparent when my aligners are out. I think this "looking worse before it looks better" thing is common with those of us who had fairly straight teeth to begin with. Anyway, my teeth overall look worse now, but not noticeable with my aligners in, and we should be fine by the end of our treatment.
July 30, 2015
Hello Haydar,
I hope my message finds you well.
I m contacting you as I saw your post about your experience with Invisalign on realself.com. I was shocked to read that you have almost the same problems as I do. I m so sorry I didn t find your post earlier and hope your treatment went well by now.
While I was looking at the pictures you took during the tratment, i ve noticed that we are patients of the same doctor at Smile Factory Clinic (I guess you signed the contract as being a patient of Dr.Friedrich Widu, but Marina Necsulescu was the one who coordinated your tratement).
I ve started my Invisalign treatment back in June 2013 and it suoppose to be a 7 months treatment as I had 14 trays. The problem is that it s been 2 years since than and my condition got only worse. Now I have serious issues with my bite as i have contact only on my central incisors, the right side of my maxilary become lower than the left side - same for the mandible, and the midline was misplace during the treatment, amongst other issues. I ve contacted 4 other orthodontists in Bucharest as I was verry worried about my condition and I was told by Dr. Marina Necsulescu that she doesn t know anymore how to fix these issues. All the doctors I ve contacted express their concern regarding my current condition.
Which is your situation now? Did you finish the treatment, did they manage to fix the issues that they have created?
Best wishes,
Rebeca
I hope my message finds you well.
I m contacting you as I saw your post about your experience with Invisalign on realself.com. I was shocked to read that you have almost the same problems as I do. I m so sorry I didn t find your post earlier and hope your treatment went well by now.
While I was looking at the pictures you took during the tratment, i ve noticed that we are patients of the same doctor at Smile Factory Clinic (I guess you signed the contract as being a patient of Dr.Friedrich Widu, but Marina Necsulescu was the one who coordinated your tratement).
I ve started my Invisalign treatment back in June 2013 and it suoppose to be a 7 months treatment as I had 14 trays. The problem is that it s been 2 years since than and my condition got only worse. Now I have serious issues with my bite as i have contact only on my central incisors, the right side of my maxilary become lower than the left side - same for the mandible, and the midline was misplace during the treatment, amongst other issues. I ve contacted 4 other orthodontists in Bucharest as I was verry worried about my condition and I was told by Dr. Marina Necsulescu that she doesn t know anymore how to fix these issues. All the doctors I ve contacted express their concern regarding my current condition.
Which is your situation now? Did you finish the treatment, did they manage to fix the issues that they have created?
Best wishes,
Rebeca
UPDATED FROM H.lks
5 months post
tray 9
So i am on tray 9 now... I went to see my orthodontist last week, she said that so far my teeth are moving as they should be according to the treatment plan, I still can not see any visible change however. I am supposed to leave town for a while so she gave me 6 more trays and she mentioned for the first time that before i move on to tray 16 I should see her to have my teeth "scraped" i don't know if that's the right terminology... I honestly got worried when i heard this but she then clarified that it's nothing to worry about and that this actually means that she will insert something between the teeth and scrape them as to make them smaller by few millimeters. That's all i got for now
Replies (1)
June 2, 2014
The scraping you are referring to, in this country they call it Interproximal Reduction, which we shorten to IPR. Sometimes they use a manual file, sometimes a powered file. It is painless and removes a very small layer of the enamel, just a tiny bit, to make more room. :) It is extremely common. A very few people have bad experiences with it causing sensitivity but the vast majority feel (and even see) no difference or close to none.
June 19, 2014
that's very comforting thanks for the info :D you're always there to make a person feel better :)) Although I am feeling so worried about this entire thing now, I am on tray 10 and for some reason I feel like my teeth looked much better before I started, it's like my teeth have gotten worse not better, maybe it's because they're on the move, I hope this is the reason
June 19, 2014
That is likely, but why not post a picture and let us see? Maybe you're just starting to obsess about it like the rest of us did/do, so you notice every tiny imperfection. But for a lot of people, things get worse before they get better. In your case, I'm guessing that there will be some strange spacing changes--bigger spaces here and there as room is made to shift teeth over.
June 20, 2014
I'm finishing up Tray 6 and I was getting discouraged because as my teeth move, there are spaces appearing that were never there before, and certain areas of my teeth that were crowded are now coming to the surface, and they do not look pretty (it's amazing how scary the crevasses in our teeth look when we can't reach them with floss or a toothbrush, but then Invisalign moves them around and now they're staring me in the face!) I talked to my ortho about this and she said that in a way invisalign "unravels" our teeth so that they can then be maneuvered back into place correctly. She also said that she will include a teeth whitening when I'm finished to make all the teeth sparkle! I'm trying to stay patient until the end, and THEN freak out if I'm still not happy with the way they look!
UPDATED FROM H.lks
4 months post
A quick update
When i first put on tray 8 I did not feel any kind of pain or pressure like i mentioned earlier, but almost 6 hours have passed and it's starting to get really painful. I thought i should mention it.
Replies (3)
May 16, 2014
Thanks for mentioning the blossoming pain :). Sometimes we forget that a lot of times the trays don't hurt until about 8-12 hours after you put them in. fightingthefear24 just had the same experience :D.
Did your doctor ever give you a ClinCheck video, to show the projected movement of your teeth throughout treatment?
Did your doctor ever give you a ClinCheck video, to show the projected movement of your teeth throughout treatment?
June 2, 2014
yeah she actually did, but they are so brief, there are 4 videos 6 seconds each, i can barely see what is going on :))
June 2, 2014
Yeah, fair enough :-/. I wish I could see them--I've seen a fair number of clinchecks. Sometimes I can make stuff out, but yeah, sometimes it goes by too fast. I don't understand why it's easier some times than others.
May 31, 2014
Thank you for your posts...one of my biggest issues is my midline too...are you wearing any elastics (rubber bands) to correct your midline issue? I have one on my right side and I'm trying to find posts of others who are working on their midline to see progress. Thanks!
June 2, 2014
Hey there... Thanks for your comment... at the time being i am not wearing any elastics but if i do remember correctly i will be having some later on, i am not pretty sure, i'll have to check again with my ortho... I understood that midline is pretty much one of the hardest problems to solve be it with invisalign or regular braces... I am on try 9 already and haven't seen any change!
Once again, it is very possible that this is an unfortunate intermediate condition that will be resolved during the course of your treatment, but it can't hurt to ask our doctors. Without the ClinCheck, though, it's very hard to know what the plan is.
Here is a link to ask your question in the doctors' section.