29 Year Old Professional Flute Player Treated in Brazil

I'm a classical flute player and have been making a living as a musician since living school, so I always thought that I'd never be able to fix my teeth as fixed metal braces absolutely destroy the sound. I've seen way too many students put braces on and lose the beautiful sound that they had worked to hard to acquire, and I wasn't up for the risk. Having said that, I absolutely hate my teeth. I have the most obtrusive snaggle tooth (upper left canine) and I've spent my whole life being self conscious about it. It is something that I have never learnt to accept about myself.
Fortunately, a few years ago I met a professional trumpet player in the orchestra where I live, and he was undergoing Invisalign treatment at the time and highly recommended it to me as an option. I thought it was super expensive at first, so discarded the thought, but this year I decided that it's either now or never. It's costing me $5000 US dollars, which in Brazil is a LOT of money (like, the average person's yearly salary), but if I was getting treated in Australia or Britain (where I am previously from), it would cost me a bucketload more.

I literally have only been wearing Invisalign for 15 days, and had my attachments put on today, so it's still early days, but I really think that the worst is behind me now. The first 4-5 days of using Invisalign were pretty nasty, I won't lie. It was so uncomfortable...it was the same feeling of wearing extremely tight shoes that don't let your toes move and make you feel bruised and battered. Taking the trays off wasn't a massive issue, but putting them on made me yelp. Also, my tongue cut pretty cut up from rubbing along the edges of the trays. On day 5 though, I started to see the light. I stopped yelping when putting the trays in. The tongue didn't hurt anymore. I could wear the trays without putting wax on all of the edges. And playing flute with them in wasn't all that hard (it wasn't a walk in the park either!), but I soon found out that I could play flute almost perfectly (99%) with the top tray in and the bottom tray out, so that's what I did whenever I had a gig.
I was starting to feel like it was all too good to be true really, but I was definitely afraid of getting the attachments put on (all 20 of them) because I thought that surely THEY would ruin my flute playing somewhat. And I expected them to cut up my mouth a fair bit.

Getting the attachments on took about 2.5 hours!!! NONE of it was fun! It was pretty damn uncomfortable actually - I won't say painful, just exhausting and irritating. I hated the stupid drill machines they use to file down your teeth etc (I definitely recommend using earphones and listening to loud music during this process to distract yourself!!!). However, having the attachments on isn't hurting me. And I can play flute absolutely fine when I take the trays off. I can play pretty well with them on too...still need to get used to it though. I will warn you though, it's fricking HARD taking off the trays when your mouth is full of attachments. Took me forever...I'm sure I will get used to it though. Don't be fooled by the trays before the attachments - they are a breeze to get on and off. With the trays off, the attachments are a bit weird (they feel rough and lumpy), but they don't hurt at all.

I'm just so happy with the process now...It's hurting less today than I expected...My first trays were excruciating, but these are totally manageable to wear even on the first day.

TOTALLY recommend these for a flute player who is feeling unsure about the effect on their sound. It's definitely a good option.

Forgot to post these at the time, but this is how my teeth looked with and without trays after almost 6 weeks of treatment. "False teeth" were inserted where the extraction sites are, and filled with tooth coloured resin (this is visible on the top tray, but not the bottom because the resin on the bottom tooth fell out).