Reviews you can trust, from real people like you.
How it works
- Our highly-trained Review Moderation team evaluates all reviews before they're published to ensure they're written by people like you and not a member of a doctor's office.
- This multi-step process takes up to 24 hours from review submission to publication.
- Doctors can't pay to have reviews removed or hidden.
- Reviews are only removed at the reviewer's request or if they violate our Terms of Service.
If you have questions or believe we should re-evaluate a published review, let us know.
Sort by:
*Treatment results may vary
Finished trays but having some more!!
Well I got the my final tray, tray 14 in January. I went for my last dental appointment around two weeks ago all set for the removal of the bits they stick on your teeth. But after discussion with my dentist we both decided that though my bite is much improved I am still biting more on the left front of my teeth than on the right so more trays it is! Well I like to get my money's worth! I have only had invisaline since August so I am pretty lucky.
Re my theory of my bite I thought it was because of having to many teeth taken out when I was little, they used to do that to make room for other teeth??! Don't do it now thank goodness! My top jaw is smaller than by bottom so my bottom jaw as almost curved so that the back and front meet but the middle doesn't - it has bowed to fit in with my top jaw. Mother nature is amazing isn't it, how we adjust when things go wrong! LOL! Anyway I still don't have the perfect bite with regards to my molars meeting but it is somewhat improved and when I bite now my front teeth don't clank down, it is actually a pleasure to bite now!
So future plans are once I have completely finished treatment is to leave for six months to settle (hoping I can get them whitened in that time) then after six months look at having some teeth rebuilt at sides to try and get rid of the black corridor. Also my right too next to my front tooth looks small compared to my other teeth and the opposite one is a crown so I would like that sorting out.....not that I am vain or anything! :)
Will keep in touch!
RachaelXX
Re my theory of my bite I thought it was because of having to many teeth taken out when I was little, they used to do that to make room for other teeth??! Don't do it now thank goodness! My top jaw is smaller than by bottom so my bottom jaw as almost curved so that the back and front meet but the middle doesn't - it has bowed to fit in with my top jaw. Mother nature is amazing isn't it, how we adjust when things go wrong! LOL! Anyway I still don't have the perfect bite with regards to my molars meeting but it is somewhat improved and when I bite now my front teeth don't clank down, it is actually a pleasure to bite now!
So future plans are once I have completely finished treatment is to leave for six months to settle (hoping I can get them whitened in that time) then after six months look at having some teeth rebuilt at sides to try and get rid of the black corridor. Also my right too next to my front tooth looks small compared to my other teeth and the opposite one is a crown so I would like that sorting out.....not that I am vain or anything! :)
Will keep in touch!
RachaelXX
Tray 8 of 14
Hi everyone! Well here I am still with my invisaline mouth and finally after eight trays my front teeth just about overlap my bottom teeth which means no more clanking! I also have two molars on my left side that now meet as opposed to one! It is slow progress but it is working.
As for eating now I just whip em out, eat and whip em back in! Not good I know! I also had a American Hard Gum session in the car on Saturday and very naughtily stuck them back in knowing my teeth would be rotting away but I was going to be back at home shortly. Why I didn't wait because the backs of my new tray 8's are now bright yellow! Not as bad as my friends neighbour who thought it ok to eat a curry meal with her trays in and ended up with green trays!!
Anyway just wanted to touch base, let you know Im still here and all is going well!
RachaelXX
As for eating now I just whip em out, eat and whip em back in! Not good I know! I also had a American Hard Gum session in the car on Saturday and very naughtily stuck them back in knowing my teeth would be rotting away but I was going to be back at home shortly. Why I didn't wait because the backs of my new tray 8's are now bright yellow! Not as bad as my friends neighbour who thought it ok to eat a curry meal with her trays in and ended up with green trays!!
Anyway just wanted to touch base, let you know Im still here and all is going well!
RachaelXX
1 Week update
Ok so I have had invisalines for a week now and I things have improved. I started off in pain, taking out was horrendous, I couldn't help but feel down at the thought of putting up with this for a minimum of 9 months, what kept me going was the thought was that I may loose weight due to the hassle it was to eat. However I have started binge eating :( I have to stop that, its like compensation for having to have a mouth of plastic - I deserve that cookie or the whole packet because I have a mouth of plastic & who knows when I can next eat.....I'm going on an all inclusive holiday in a week I will probably come back a stone heavier :(
I went out Sat night without the invisalines in, I didn't feel all that great because of having all the attachments to my top front teeth but no one noticed and considering I didn't have the trays in for about 7hrs it didn't ache too much to put back in.
The trays are now really easy to take out (I can do without looking now which helps with eating!!) and can just about put back in without looking too. My teeth don't ache at all to the point that I am wondering if this first set has done its job and its time to move onto the next lot a week early. My orthodontist said though that you will know when its time to move as there will be no gaps between your teeth and the trays, the tiny gaps are really only on my bottom teeth and top teeth where they will be moving the top down and the bottom up I think.
When I don't have the trays in my teeth have moved lots already, I now have just my left front tooth meeting and nothing else! Lovely! When I have the trays in I want to bite down i think because I have never had a proper bite and it feels good to be able to bite down on something, I have got into the habit of this but I am sure im not supposed to do this?
On fri I took my kids to a theme park and straight after the picnic they ran to go on a catapilla rollacosta ride before I had time to find a washroom and brush my teeth etc. I had to run after them and I wenton the ride thinking the entire time ...my teeth will be rotting away!!!
I do have a lisp, I can hear it and people I am talking too have confirmed this! I was telling my kids of the other day and I could hear myself lisping and my kids wanted to laugh at me. Very hard to sound like super nanny when your lisping big time!
Those that I have told which is nearly everyone I speak to as I like to explain why I cant talk properly probably think why? My teeth are so straight why is she so vain that she needs to straighten them more? I have to explain my bite which is really bad and if I don't do something about it I will end up with false teeth in the future! EEEK!!!
RachaelXX
I went out Sat night without the invisalines in, I didn't feel all that great because of having all the attachments to my top front teeth but no one noticed and considering I didn't have the trays in for about 7hrs it didn't ache too much to put back in.
The trays are now really easy to take out (I can do without looking now which helps with eating!!) and can just about put back in without looking too. My teeth don't ache at all to the point that I am wondering if this first set has done its job and its time to move onto the next lot a week early. My orthodontist said though that you will know when its time to move as there will be no gaps between your teeth and the trays, the tiny gaps are really only on my bottom teeth and top teeth where they will be moving the top down and the bottom up I think.
When I don't have the trays in my teeth have moved lots already, I now have just my left front tooth meeting and nothing else! Lovely! When I have the trays in I want to bite down i think because I have never had a proper bite and it feels good to be able to bite down on something, I have got into the habit of this but I am sure im not supposed to do this?
On fri I took my kids to a theme park and straight after the picnic they ran to go on a catapilla rollacosta ride before I had time to find a washroom and brush my teeth etc. I had to run after them and I wenton the ride thinking the entire time ...my teeth will be rotting away!!!
I do have a lisp, I can hear it and people I am talking too have confirmed this! I was telling my kids of the other day and I could hear myself lisping and my kids wanted to laugh at me. Very hard to sound like super nanny when your lisping big time!
Those that I have told which is nearly everyone I speak to as I like to explain why I cant talk properly probably think why? My teeth are so straight why is she so vain that she needs to straighten them more? I have to explain my bite which is really bad and if I don't do something about it I will end up with false teeth in the future! EEEK!!!
RachaelXX
Provider Review
Dr Frances Mackay