Fingers Crossed! - Fort Thomas, KY

So excited to finally be finished with my treatment. Went to the ortho on Thursday and was pleasantly surprised to find that we both agreed my teeth look great and that there was no need to do a refinement!! My back teeth still need to extrude a tiny bit but that will continue to get better as time goes on. In total, my treatment took 20 months; 39 trays on the top and 30 on the bottom. I have a follow-up appointment in January to make sure I'm still satisfied and to check on my back teeth, if there are any issues I can still have a refinement done for no additional cost, but we both suspect that will not be necessary. At my last appointment, the ortho removed all my attachments, smoothed and rounded a couple teeth, placed a permanent retainer on my bottom teeth, created a plastic retainer for my top teeth, and took final X-rays and photos. I will have the permanent retainer forever and am to wear the plastic retainer every night for the first 20 months and then slowly reduce wearing time after that until I am only wearing it a couple times a week.

Overall, the entire process was relatively smooth and painless for me. I would highly recommend Invisalign to anyone on the fence about whether or not to undergo treatment. Please feel free to ask me any questions!

Well, I ran into my first little bump in the road. Hopefully it doesn't turn into a big bump and we can get the issue fixed quickly. My back molars have intruded (is that the word?) and now my bite doesn't touch in the back of my mouth. I went into the ortho yesterday and he decided to cut off the back of my remaining top trays in hopes that this will cause my teeth to naturally extrude back into a position where they touch. I am still only wearing my bottom passive trays at night since those teeth are finished and that should help as well with extruding the molars. The doctor didn't seem concerned and said that this is fairly common with invisalign. I only have 5 trays left (on tray 35 of 39) until I'm finished unless this bite issue doesn't correct itself, then I will likely need a refinement. I am sooooo anxious to be done! The doctor also mentioned that I can wear the last 5 trays for 10 days each instead of 14, so that was a nice surprise. I go back October 30 to see if the bite has corrected; time has been allotted to do refinement impression if necessary.

Does anyone have a similar experience with their back molars not touching? And did it correct itself okay? Thanks for the input.

Hey everyone! It's a good time to update because I just finished tray 30, which means I'm done with my bottom teeth - WOOHOO!! I'm really happy with how they look, because as you can tell, they were SUPER crowded at the beginning and a couple of teeth really needed to make some major rotations. Now, I am supposed to wear "passive aligners" on the bottom teeth while my top teeth continue their course of treatment, which is another 10 trays. So, I'll continue getting new passive aligners every two weeks with my top trays and I am only supposed to wear the bottom trays at night (something about my back molars needing to come down a bit). I've already been wearing them like this for a few days and I must say, it takes a little getting used to! Has anyone else been instructed to just wear one tray during the all day while the other only at night?

I cannot wait until my top teeth are done, I am soooo anxious. This whole treatment process hasn't been bad, but I'm just so close to being done that I'm getting antsy. Plus, with breastfeeding a little one and not being able to snack, I'm losing too much weight, ahhhhh! I know, I know, some would kill to be in my situation, but seriously I don't want to look sick! I will be glad when I can snack at will and not have to think twice about whether or not I feel like going through the whole routine of brushing and flossing, lol.

I'll update again around tray 35 and then again at the end of my entire treatment!! In the meantime, let me know if anyone has any questions!