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Tray 3 (with attachments)
I really shouldn't have worried about the attachments. I spent 45 minutes with Dr Sadiq yesterday and they were attached to my teeth in half that time. 19 of the sharp little things! I'd read all the horror stories about how they are a different colour to the shade of the teeth but I can't fault Dr Sadiq's team in the slightest. My teeth aren't all one colour and every attachment has been perfectly matched. They're pretty sharp but in the 24 hours they've been attached and the aligners have been out of my mouth I've not had any problem with rubbing or sores on the inside of the mouth.
From any more than a foot away you can't see the attachments without the trays in and although with the trays in they are more noticeable, from 2 or more feet away not one person has noticed any of the attachments and if you get any closer than that you're either the girlfriend or invading my personal space!
I also asked Dr Sadiq about AcceleDent yesterday, he says its brilliant and highly recommends it, but due to a lack of a UK licensed supplier he hasn't offered it to any patients recently because of the high cost of importing from the US (about £1200), though he talked to an orthodontist friend this week and there is now a way to get AcceleDent for £600-800 and will look at sorting this out for me asap, thus reducing the treatment time from 18 months to less than 12. Result!
From any more than a foot away you can't see the attachments without the trays in and although with the trays in they are more noticeable, from 2 or more feet away not one person has noticed any of the attachments and if you get any closer than that you're either the girlfriend or invading my personal space!
I also asked Dr Sadiq about AcceleDent yesterday, he says its brilliant and highly recommends it, but due to a lack of a UK licensed supplier he hasn't offered it to any patients recently because of the high cost of importing from the US (about £1200), though he talked to an orthodontist friend this week and there is now a way to get AcceleDent for £600-800 and will look at sorting this out for me asap, thus reducing the treatment time from 18 months to less than 12. Result!
Trays 1 & 2
After all of the excitement of the initial consultation I probably should have considered what I'd got myself in to before actually forking out real money.
I had to wait a few weeks for the clincheck videos to come through but when they did I didn't really register the 19 attachments that I'd need, helpfully highlighted in bright pink on the video. All I could see were those beautiful teeth I'd have at the end of 32 alignersaligners and confirmed to Dr Sadiq immediately that I was keen. Funny how the mind works when you're excited!
The aligners arrived a couple of weeks later and a quick ten minute appointment on 3rd November 2015 to show me how to put them in and remove them and I was on my own. Walking back to the office felt weird with two tiny bits of plastic which felt massive in my mouth. They also caused me a bit of a lisp which nobody apart from me even noticed, though I thought it made me sound drunk! Despite the fact that I was constantly aware they were there not one person noticed I was wearing them unless I told them, and those that were told were amazed, asking questions and a lot of people said how they'd considered invisalign but until they knew someone that had tried it weren't keen to give it a go. Seems like I'm a trailblazer in my little group of friends and colleagues!
The downside to invisalign is that you feel you are constantly brushing your teeth, flossing and rinsing, and this really cuts into your two hours a day maximum you're supposed to have the trays out of your mouth. The first week it felt like I'd brushed off all of my enamel. And at the end of the two weeks the aligners are discoloured and don't taste good no matter how much brushing and rinsing you do of the trays!
Reading all the reviews, I'd prepared myself for the world of pain as soon as I took the aligners out but nothing came, even when I changed to tray 2 two weeks later all I noticed was a bit of pressure for a couple of days, only really noticeable when trying to eat an apple.
I did a fair amount of review reading on invisalign attachments over this period and I must confess that the amount of people complaining about the attachments scared me. A lot. The whole point I'd gone for invisalign was so nobody could see it and now I was being told that it was obvious and ugly. It kind of sent me into a huff for a few days thinking I'd blown £4k on something that I'd have to wear for 18 months and would be awful.
I had to wait a few weeks for the clincheck videos to come through but when they did I didn't really register the 19 attachments that I'd need, helpfully highlighted in bright pink on the video. All I could see were those beautiful teeth I'd have at the end of 32 alignersaligners and confirmed to Dr Sadiq immediately that I was keen. Funny how the mind works when you're excited!
The aligners arrived a couple of weeks later and a quick ten minute appointment on 3rd November 2015 to show me how to put them in and remove them and I was on my own. Walking back to the office felt weird with two tiny bits of plastic which felt massive in my mouth. They also caused me a bit of a lisp which nobody apart from me even noticed, though I thought it made me sound drunk! Despite the fact that I was constantly aware they were there not one person noticed I was wearing them unless I told them, and those that were told were amazed, asking questions and a lot of people said how they'd considered invisalign but until they knew someone that had tried it weren't keen to give it a go. Seems like I'm a trailblazer in my little group of friends and colleagues!
The downside to invisalign is that you feel you are constantly brushing your teeth, flossing and rinsing, and this really cuts into your two hours a day maximum you're supposed to have the trays out of your mouth. The first week it felt like I'd brushed off all of my enamel. And at the end of the two weeks the aligners are discoloured and don't taste good no matter how much brushing and rinsing you do of the trays!
Reading all the reviews, I'd prepared myself for the world of pain as soon as I took the aligners out but nothing came, even when I changed to tray 2 two weeks later all I noticed was a bit of pressure for a couple of days, only really noticeable when trying to eat an apple.
I did a fair amount of review reading on invisalign attachments over this period and I must confess that the amount of people complaining about the attachments scared me. A lot. The whole point I'd gone for invisalign was so nobody could see it and now I was being told that it was obvious and ugly. It kind of sent me into a huff for a few days thinking I'd blown £4k on something that I'd have to wear for 18 months and would be awful.
I had bad teeth as a kid, and by bad I mean awful....
I had bad teeth as a kid, and by bad I mean awful. A seriously small mouth meant that there was serious overcrowding, upper front teeth protruding and canines appearing nearer to the top of the gums than where they should have been. So as usual in the UK I had metal braces on the NHS after 6 teeth were removed to clear some space and the teeth ended up looking pretty good when they came off two years later. Unfortunately at that point, as a teenager, I decided that I knew better than the dentist and thought I didn't need to wear the retainer as instructed. Six months later and the day of my check-up with the dentist I realised the retainer didn't fit any more and for the next fourteen years they've continued to relapse and although I realised they weren't great I felt they were still acceptable. That was until my four year old niece said "Uncle N, you've got terrible teeth" and there and then I realised that I should look into getting them fixed.
I initially only considered lingual braces as I thought my case would be too difficult for Invisalign to fix. That was until Dr Sadiq told me that although I was on the more difficult end of what Invisalign can achieve, he was still confident that we could achieve a good result. At that point I was hooked, paid a deposit, signed up and was raring to go.
I initially only considered lingual braces as I thought my case would be too difficult for Invisalign to fix. That was until Dr Sadiq told me that although I was on the more difficult end of what Invisalign can achieve, he was still confident that we could achieve a good result. At that point I was hooked, paid a deposit, signed up and was raring to go.
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