33 year old female with overbite, crowded and missing teeth. New York, NY

I am a 33 year old single female living in NYC. I have a total of 24 trays. I have been reading many of your reviews up until now, so it has helped me tremendously to get over this unknown world of invisalign. I hope I can help others make their decisions, too.

Here are what my Invisalign will address:
- over bite
- crowding (lower jaw)
- missing teeth (implants will be inserted after or towards the end of treatment)

Back story of me: last October (2014) I was eating an almond and my entire tooth broke on my lower jaw. Yes, the ENTIRE tooth broke. It was where I had a root canal/crown 7 years ago and it completely broke off to a point that the only thing they could do was an implant. Long story short, they asked if I ever thought of getting braces/invisalign in the future because once they put the implant in I can never get braces (or the treatment would be very difficult). I am very, very indecisive, by the way and I need to know all of the information before I proceed in anything. It took me 6 months to decide whether or not I was going to get Invisalign and I am hoping that this is all worth it. I was also told in order to completely fix my overbite I will need surgery. I opted for no surgery, since I am already spending $5500, PLUS at least 5 implants, and if I did the corrective jaw surgery it would be at least another $5000-6000. My ortho also said that I can adjust to my invisalign now, and that she can send the Invisalign office 1 revision. So this means that I have a few months to decide if I want to get the jaw surgery and invisalign will revise my procedure according to the surgery. Right now I was told that she is compensating a lot because of my crazy overbite and that it will never be perfect unless I do the surgery. I was never super unhappy with my overbite, and as long as she is doing the best that she can without the surgery, I think I am okay with it. We'll see, maybe I will change my mind in a month after I am used to wearing these aligners.

I have a family history of very soft, and bad teeth. I am missing all of my left side of my bottom jaw which will all need implants as soon as my teeth are all in place. I have not had them for years now, but also because 5 yrs ago a few months before I was moving to NY I went in to get implants but I was told the same thing - if I wanted implants, I need to be sure that I am not getting braces. So now that I have yet ANOTHER tooth missing, I really have to get my teeth back in good shape, and fix my overbite.

So sorry that this post is so long, but I wanted to be thorough as possible. Please feel free to ask me any questions. I will post my clincheck later next week.

I don't know why, but my ortho gave me this weird video that does not look like everyone else's clin checks :(

Also, its really hard to tell my improvements since my uppers are covering so much of my lowers but we are really straightening them out especially the front teeth.

I have also added how my teeth look with the invisalign in. Long way to go!

I ran errands today, thinking it will be a quick in and out of the city. But some of the trains were messed up and things took much longer than I thought. I WAS SO FREAKING HUNGRY, and I didn't bring my toothbrush kit. So stupid of me. I was famished by the time I got home, and I am never doing that again. I went to Target tonight and picked up some portable toothbrush and things. I am assuming this is going to be my best friend.

So far, I have no pain eating like everyone else. I assume it will change for certain aligners but my first one so far is not excruciating pain except when I try to remove it. Eating has been fine for me so far.