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Smooth Process, So for So Good, Too Early to Tell for Sure

UPDATED FROM misselissalk
1 year post

Tray 15/20

M
misselissalk
$1,400
Ok. I am supposedly 3/4 of the way done with treatment, and yet I don't think i am going to be "done" by the time i am done if you know what i mean. Shortly after starting my 10th tray i was sent an email saying that I could start wearing my aligners for two weeks instead of three weeks meaning that treatment would be done sooner than originally projected. I was pretty excited at that thought. But somewhere between tray 10 and 15 something has gone wrong. My canines no longer appear to be moving. It's like they are stuck or something. My left canine is so close to being finished. It was supposedly done after tray 14, but upon closer examination it could probably use about one or two more trays to be where the plan says it should be. And the right canine doesn't look like it's moved since tray 9. Here's the kicker though. My trays seem to be fitting. At least in the sense that my teeth reach to the bottom of the trays. My theory is that since canines and relativity tubular comparatively to incisors. So they don't have as much grip area. I think my canines are fitting to the bottom because there's enough room in the sides of the tray for them to twist within the tray and still fit to the bottom. So naturally I thought this would tip off the professional overseeing my case that a mid course correction is probably a good idea. But after reviewing my photos apparently they think that its all good. Well I don't think it is. Im no orthodontist, but im fairly certain something isn't right. They want me to finish treatment to the end and them see where i am from there. Aside from the fact that I would basically be wasting the next few months of time wearing trays that aren't doing any good, Couldn't forcing my teeth into ill fitting trays damage them?! I have a hard time believing that they would tell me to do something potentially harmful, but still! You think that they could reach out to me to allay my fears a little more.

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My only interactions have been with customer service over the phone and email. Questions have been answered quite promptly and professionally.

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A
February 1, 2017
So what happened after this? Are your teeth perfectly straight now? I just signed up today and we have similar crowding so I need to know if I should proceed.
M
February 1, 2017
no, I'm still in treatment. Treatment is supposed to be done at the end of March. Still working on one canine. I will most likely need refinements at the end since things don't look like they've progressed as much as they should.
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June 22, 2017
Can you post a current photo next to starting photo
UPDATED FROM misselissalk
10 months post

First hiccup

M
misselissalk
So I've had my first hiccup in the treatment process. Im a little more than two weeks into my tenth tray, the last of the first set i received initially and have been waiting on them to send me 11-20. At the beginning of tray ten they requested update photos and i sent them within a day.
Well i just got a response to those photos yesterday. They said my aligners aren't fitting and to wear this tray an additional two weeks before moving on!! I don't know how they are coming to that conclusion because i feel like this tray is actually fitting really well all my teeth, even my laterals i was having questions about several trays ago, are fitting very close to all the way into the bottom of the tray. It even felt loose a week into wearing it. My teeth seem to match what the 3d model says my teeth should look like at this stage. When i asked about my laterals several trays ago i was told that the gap i noticed still was within the range of acceptable. Well i think that gap has even closed up since then. So what gives?! I have suspicions that they aren't as close to having my next set of aligners made as they say they are and this is their way of stalling me until they do. Because what is wearing a tray additional weeks going to do? If they aren't fitting right, wouldn't that mean that you would have to take new impressions of my teeth and redesign my remaining aligners? Once again the information they gave me was vague and I'm not certain that i will get an answer to these questions even though I've emailed them. So i guess i will follow their instructions to be on the safe side. But I guess that means that my treatment completion will now be delayed by at least two weeks at this point.

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UPDATED FROM misselissalk
9 months post

Tray 10/20

M
misselissalk
I am basically at my halfway point now, in a week if you want to get technical. I am nearly a week into my 10th tray and it's loosened up enough at this point that I think my teeth have moved into position and stay that way for short periods of time without the tray in. Still not feeling the soreness in the canines. It's strange. Also noticed something else kind of weird but kind of good. I don't know if I mentioned it before or not, but for awhile now I've noticed my bite not really fitting together right. Like my right side molars weren't touching anymore, while my left side molars were. It was annoying, but wasn't preventing me from chewing or anything, so I kind of let it go. Well as of yesterday, I've noticed that without my aligners in, my right side molars are starting to touch again. It's not perfect, but it does feel better. Not sure what is causing it exactly because if my canines are only moving, then I don't know how that changes anything with my molars. My only guess is that maybe there are still micro movements happening in my plan that don't show up on the 3d model. In any case, it's a good thing.
Still waiting on them to send me my 11-20 trays. I am a little nervous because I don't want to prolong my treatment any longer than it already is. But I have a little more than 2 weeks before I need to have them so I can switch. I will post photos here a little later.

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