My INVISALIGN Story (29 Y/o, Female) - New Jersey, NJ

So, there have been several bumps in my Invisalign road.

My teeth look great. I'm going to throw that out there right away. However. My bite is way off. Way, waaaaay off. This has been building for some time, and finally came to a culmination at my last orthodontist visit. They initially wanted to make molds so that I could have refinements to close my bite. We did this. After halfway accidentally making the mold with my bottom attachments on, they wanted to remove my top attachments. Fine by me!

So off the attachments came. I am just letting you know: this is not pleasant. They are more/less sanded off, and dust literally turned my eyelashes gray. I have a couple sensitive teeth, and it was murderous on those. Unfortunately despite several attempts, I still do not feel like my teeth are smooth. I got to a point with the sanding where I was just over it and unwillingly to continue on. Maybe at some later point.

Anyway. So that happened. Then it was decided after more examination of my bite, that my wisdom teeth have literally been the only teeth that have been touching this entire time. So the orthodontist basically pulled out a dremel and filed them down. This is also not pleasant. My bite felt slightly improved, but the ortho was still not happy, so he said, 'your upper wisdom teeth need to come out'. LOL WTF.

My wisdom teeth have never bothered me, ever. They are fine. They just hang out. But alas, I was told they had to go.

I am NOT a lover of dental work. Very anxious and had (obviously) hung onto those teeth for 30 years because I just had not desire to get them senselessly out. However. I am so done with Invisalign that I made a consultation for a couple days later so I could get the uppers pulled. The oral surgeon was awesome and I opted to be awake.

Welp. I just had them out literally an hour ago. I had nitrous and obviously local anesthetic. They popped out in seriously 10 minutes all told. In pain now, but I expected that. All in all not a bad experience.

Really hoping that now my Invisalign journey can end. It's been a year this month and I am so over this. I am through all my trays and now just wearing my final set.

Things were going along pretty well with my treatment and I was on tray 16 of 19. I was SO ENTHUSIASTIC to be done. I had a feeling I was going to need refinements, as one of my teeth was not moving down like it was supposed to - and I was seriously considering just forgoing them. I am so over Invisalign. Last night I was taking photos (I'm a professional photographer) when my boyfriend and partner looked at me and was like 'is your lip bleeding?'. I said I didn't think so. He told me my upper tray was full of blood. It was. Maybe I had flossed to hard, or put the trays in too hard, but a spot between my teeth was indeed bleeding and had literally filled up the tray. It did stop once I took the trays out and cleaned up, but it was gross.
I have also been really tired of having an incredibly awkward bite, where literally two teeth are meeting in the far back left of my mouth. Eating steak is impossible, as is eating many other things. Just misery. I am also sick of tooth brushing, sticking my fingers in my mouth, and having to worry about drinking or eating beverages. Just done.
I had an ortho appointment this morning, and he was checking my bite. He didn't like what was happening so he ended up cutting off the molars of each tray, and now I have to wear these little quarter trays for 6 WEEKS.
Just very over this.

Can't believe the difference in my teeth so far - they look so good I could probably stop here and be happy. Good to see progress when my tongue is so cut up from this tray.