37 y/o Aussie Female. Straightening crooked teeth again. Have root resorption from braces as a teen. Melbourne, AUS

Again I've been really slack in updating on here but I have been taking photos of my progress. Everything has been going great guns and Invisalign has become the new norm. Although I am itching for the process to be over and I am getting close to the end of round one, I know there is another round to go before I will have perfectly straight teeth.

I'm finishing the end of tray 21 and it seems like when I first started I would never get there but here I am with only 4 more trays to go! That's right, my Ortho said they were going to ditch the last 3 which mean toward the end of next month I get my attachments off and we consult on next steps. I'm certain there will be refinements in my future but I don't think it will be that much, fingers crossed!

Every appointment I have had to have IPR or as the last girl called it 'sand papering'. I was like "thank you for calling it what it is! Let's just be honest about it!". Oh how we laughed. Not really. I just giggled.

I'm super happy with my progress and how quickly it has all gone. I'm just looking forward to getting through the last 4 trays and seeing what refinements hold.

I hope everyone else is having as good a journey as I have.

It's been a while since I updated my progress! Christmas and New Years has been and gone and survived that no worries. Progress has been steady. No issues and I think everything is tracking to plan. Ortho appointment saw me pick up trays 6 to 16. Had more IPR done and apparently more to come at my next appointment. Sigh. Still changing trays every 10 days. Tray 12 come off tomorrow and onto number 13. Yay!

Treatment is still going well in terms of really no pain, however my teeth are more crooked than ever before! The bottom teeth are moving outwards and even my hubby said to me “I’ve never seen your teeth so crooked before”! The gap between my lower lateral and central incisor continues to get bigger to make room for the tooth next to it to come into alignment. Oh well, hopefully they will improve soon.

Thought I would share my cleaning regime with you.
In the morning I just either take them out for breakfast and give them a quick rinse under the tap or I put them in a glass with 50:50 white vinegar and water. After breakfast I clean, floss and clean my aligners using a baby toothbrush and running water or sometimes I use antibacterial hand soap.
For lunch again, I take them out in the bathroom and give them a quick rinse under the tap with cold water before placing in my case. After eating, again, I brush, floss and clean my aligners using a baby toothbrush and running water.
In the evening, the only difference here to my morning clean is while I’m cleaning my teeth I have my aligners in a glass and drop a Steradent Express denture cleansing tablet in the glass with cold water. After brushing and flossing which generally takes around 3 minutes I then take the aligners out of the glass and give them a good brush with my baby toothbrush to remove the steradent. I know that Invisalign say not to use denture cleaner, but I wanted to see if I could find a cheap way of keeping my aligners clean. So what I did was test Steradent on one of my older trays and I couldn’t believe how clean they came out, even though they had been sitting in their bag for weeks! I have now been using Steradent evey day on tray 5 and the trays are cleaner than ever and nothing has happened to the aligner other than staying remarkably clean. The instructions say to use warm water but I only use cold and it still works. Maybe this is why Invisalign say not to use denture cleaners, because of the use of warm water. Anyway, for $8.45 for a pack of 48 tablets from Woolworths I think this is a bargain and will continue to use them. I’ve posted a pic of the box for you.