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Let the Invisalign Adventure Begin! - Middleton, MA
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I received my first tray set yesterday! They slid...
scyuditsJanuary 14, 2015
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I received my first tray set yesterday! They slid on fairly easily. Coming out, though, my bottom tray has been a real struggle to take out! Over the course of the last 24 hours, I have been feeling gentle tooth-moving pressure in my teeth, gums, and jaw. A little sore, but I am enjoying the feeling and knowing that something is happening. At long last, at 36 years of age, my teeth are moving towards a straighter smile!! I'm excited. Haven't needed to take anything for pain yet, but as I chewed my salad and fries at lunch this afternoon, my teeth and gums definitely felt sore and I had to take it slow.
Also last night after dinner, I noticed the bottom of my tongue getting irritated & painful as it rubbed against the inside edge of my lower tray. I filed it down to a smoother edge, and it's more comfortable now.
Presumably because of my deep bite issues, my upper invisalign tray has some small ridges behind my teeth (on the inside), which serve as a stopping point for my lower teeth when I close my bite. I am finding that this new bite position is allowing my jaw muscles (which have tended to tense up for the longest time, esp on the right side) to relax.
To sum it all up, a great start and I'm looking forward to the months ahead of living with Invisalign and a straighter smile along the way!
Also last night after dinner, I noticed the bottom of my tongue getting irritated & painful as it rubbed against the inside edge of my lower tray. I filed it down to a smoother edge, and it's more comfortable now.
Presumably because of my deep bite issues, my upper invisalign tray has some small ridges behind my teeth (on the inside), which serve as a stopping point for my lower teeth when I close my bite. I am finding that this new bite position is allowing my jaw muscles (which have tended to tense up for the longest time, esp on the right side) to relax.
To sum it all up, a great start and I'm looking forward to the months ahead of living with Invisalign and a straighter smile along the way!
UPDATED FROM scyudits
1 day post
Photo, Tray 1, Day 2
scyuditsJanuary 15, 2015
Oh the awful crookedness! :( This is with the trays on, so the deep bite is "corrected" here by the ridges mentioned previously.
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January 15, 2015
By the way, my lips have started to get really dry as of this evening, and the corners of my mouth are a little irritated/dry as well. The latter may simply be from all the struggling to get my lower tray out whenever it was time to eat.
January 15, 2015
Dry mouth and drooling--two opposite ends of the spectrum, and both are really common with Invisalign. I basically couldn't live without lip balm. And I had to actually wet my lips with water before putting it on or I'd just have oily, bleeding lips :(
How many trays do you have in all? Will you be getting your attachments with tray 3? Have you gotten to see your ClinCheck yet?
January 15, 2015
Hi there - I too had great difficulty removing my bottom tray to eat (and the dry mouth and lips) so feel for you. This is my third week on tray one and they are definitely easier to remove now but still a bit of a tussle. Things I found that help and may help you too - make sure you have a swish of water before trying to take them out, it's much harder with dry trays! Also drinking lots of water during the day helps keep your mouth more comfortable and I use plenty of lip balm (paw paw ointment or Vaseline work really well especially as you apply with your fingers not via a stick). Get new tray on Monday then every 2 weeks after that........so will all start again :-)
Good luck!
January 15, 2015
Thanks for the tip, Jilly -- I will try swishing with water to help with removing my aligners. Good luck with your new trays!
January 15, 2015
I have 36 trays planned so far. I believe the plan is to get my attachments with tray 4, because I was given trays 1-3 and my next appointment will be in 6 weeks. They said I will be getting attachments at that time. I haven't gotten to see my ClinCheck yet, am looking forward to that.
UPDATED FROM scyudits
8 days post
All is well, halfway through Tray 1
scyuditsJanuary 21, 2015
Halfway through my Tray 1 period -- tooth/gum soreness has all gone away. I actually only had soreness for about the first 4 days of this tray. At times I am still quite aware of the trays on my teeth, but often when I get busy with my daily activities I find that I forget that I am even wearing them! Sleeping with them in is just fine. On Friday, I forgot my toothbrush, but had my toothpaste with me, so I used my finger to "brush" my teeth, and by the time I got home and took the aligners out for dinner, I could really see the difference in terms of slimy stuff accumulating on the trays that day. So do brush your teeth before putting in those trays! But in a pinch, though, that slimy stuff is easily cleaned off the trays with a toothbrush later. I've been using a 50% vinegar-water solution for disinfecting the trays at most once per day.
My only discomfort lately has been the feeling of my tongue spilling out through some open space between my left side teeth, which apparently opened up due to the bite correction or whatever tooth movements occurred in the early days of this tray, or both. It feels like my tongue is being squeezed by the teeth, and it is getting a little irritated on that side.
Removing the trays is definitely getting easier, but it's still more complicated for the lower tray. I've developed a bit of a routine, where I first dislodge the tray at the furthest molar on each side, and then push down on the edge of the tray in the middle. This works the first time for the upper tray, but I have to do this routine twice to get the lower tray out.
My only discomfort lately has been the feeling of my tongue spilling out through some open space between my left side teeth, which apparently opened up due to the bite correction or whatever tooth movements occurred in the early days of this tray, or both. It feels like my tongue is being squeezed by the teeth, and it is getting a little irritated on that side.
Removing the trays is definitely getting easier, but it's still more complicated for the lower tray. I've developed a bit of a routine, where I first dislodge the tray at the furthest molar on each side, and then push down on the edge of the tray in the middle. This works the first time for the upper tray, but I have to do this routine twice to get the lower tray out.
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January 21, 2015
Just to clarify, the open space is between the top teeth and the bottom teeth on my left side.
January 21, 2015
A lot of changes happen in your mouth during the treatment. I had a couple of weeks where I kept having to fish big wads of food out of the space between my bottom front teeth and the inside of my mouth. It was embarrassing to have to excuse myself every so often to "go fishing". Lol.
January 22, 2015
You're right...the process is not comfortable. Whether you end up with braces or Invisalign or whatever, there's just no way around the fact that you're moving teeth :(. Hopefully you notice your tongue enough that you can avoid getting a sore there. I had some issues like that and they never got too bad--though I did get a sore once, it wasn't that bad of a sore. Nothing like with the attachments. But I just could not stop messing with the trays and sucking on them and chewing on them and stuff. Hopefully you'll do better, ;).
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Congratulations, and welcome to the community! It sounds like you're already off to a great start, and have figured out some of the tricks to making things a bit more bearable, when they become uncomfortable! I never had those ridges for the deep bite. My daughter has a deep bite but she has braces instead of Invisalign, so they use bite turbos for her instead. How big are those things that keep you from biting down? Like, how far into your mouth do they stick out?
Cool, thanks!