Can't Wait to Start my Invisalign Trays!!.. Now with Acceledent!!

I am a 33 y/o with a "gummy" smile, (ie, small-looking teeth), an overbite with front tooth spacing (childhood thumb-sucker), and a grey front tooth (trauma caused the discoloration, root canal did not fix the color). These are my issues that I plan to have fixed within the next year and half.

**The front-facing picture makes my front left tooth look more white than it is.

I am starting with invisalign and I will attempt to bleach during the treatment. Then, I will get crown-lengthening. Lastly, I will get veneers. I have already done the Invisalign consultation and had the molds taken. My dentist has just 'approved' the treatment plan and I am expecting the trays June 3rd. From the day they took the molds, it will be approx. 1 1/4 month until the actual trays are in my possession. I have already been told that, yes I need "buttons" (vast majority of patients do), but I will also require a few months of rubber bands (only on the right). Yuck, but I'm am going to do this the right way or not at all since I have waited so long. I have done my research: I will take advil before the first appointment and tray placement and continue to do so with the first days of subsequent trays.

2 days after I get the trays, I will be going on vacay to Punta Cana, DR. Very excited and looking forward to seeing a dentist there to get the whitening gel and to see if I will need internal bleaching for the one tooth, and if I do, I will get it done there to save a few bucks. Can't wait to update!

I received a call from my dentist's office because I asked how many trays I would need so I could know how long I'd be in them. The office personnel told me 45. I asked if this was total, and she said she thinks it's total (top and bottom). After speaking with the dentists she clarified that it would be 45 on top and 10 on bottom. OMG, that's 22 months of wear!!!! I was estimated at 12-14 months. I'm so bummed. I'm contemplating quitting Invisalign before even starting. I'm wondering, "is my dentist not experienced with Invisalign, that's why she mis-estimated me?", and "will traditional braces be a quicker/better option?"

If Invisalign will do what is promised then I will go ahead and get it because the 22 months will be worth it. I have only spent $100 so far on this journey, so I won't feel bad if I go in for the initial tray fitting and do not receive the answers I want to hear. I thought my case seemed pretty straightforward, just help my front 4-6 top teeth to recede, but I guess not. Will update soon. Any advice?!

So, I was feeling pretty fed up with my dentist. When the young lady (office mgr, I think) would call me to give me updates, I would have questions that she told me she would have the doctor call and answer. Such as: how long do I have to wear the rubber bands, why is my treatment going to take so long, and am I going to see the 'clincheck' video? Well, when I would receive a call back it was from the mgr and not the dentist. And even while I had the mgr on the phone and the dentist was IN, she would put me on hold, get the answer and the mgr would return on the line. Therefore, I hadn't seen or talked to the dentist since getting the molds made of my teeth.
So, I decided to call the office and ask if I could come in for a face-to-face chat. They were able to see me later that day. The dentist was nice as ever, but I had a feeling that I was being a bother to her. Since I had done my research (here on RS and elsewhere), I was prepared with questions. First one being, "Can I see the clincheck video?" She obliged, but stated that since I agreed to wear rubber bands (office mgr called me to ask if I was willing), she has OK'd the treatment plan with Invisalign. I would have liked to see the video first to see the movement, attachments, and such. I don't know about others but seeing the video was a very exciting, and hope-producing, moment for me... but what if I hated it and there were too many buttons for me to handle or something else weird going on: like my top right (farthest) back molar not being included in the trays because there was some distortion when the mold was taken.