Woohoo, 1st Tray In!!! - Australia, AU

Hi everyone, I have finally got my first tray in after wanting to get my teeth fixed for over 20 years. I've never had braces and have found my teeth getting worse over the years. About 4 years ago I went to my local orthodontist who told me I wasn't a candidate for Invisalign and if I wanted braces I would have to wear them for 12 months then have surgery on my jaw to fix it then another 12 months of braces. I thought it was a little extreme so decided to forget about it. Fast forward to my eldest son getting braces with a new younger orthodontist which replaced the retiring doctor I went to see who told me I could be a candidate and wouldn't need surgery. Fantastic!!! So after a few months of organising today is day 1, woohoo.
So far so good, had a lisp at first but that is subsiding already, I can feel my tongue brushing up against the aligners so I'm hoping it won't break any skin on my tongue. Will file down if it does.
So I'm wearing the first 2 aligners for 10 days each then going in to get my attachments on. They are only going on the sides of my teeth, none at the front. Then I'll be changing aligners every 7 days, When my clinicheck came I was excited that I don't have to get any teeth removed which my Ortho said I would. He was just as happy as I was.
So impressed with them so far as I can't notice them at all.
I wanted to say thank you to everyone that has posted here about their journey, it's been very helpful to me and I hope my post will help others.

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Hi guys, up to day 3 and thought I'd let you know how it's been. So far so good. Has been a bit strange to get used to but I'm getting there. I've had to file the bottom aligner a little and it feels a little better. No ulcers in my mouth but my teeth do feel a little tender when I take them out to eat, hasn't stopped me eating though????
1 person at work yesterday noticed them, she thought I was wearing a retainer but only really noticed the top aligner. Her partner is a dental technician so she knows what to look for.
When at home for meals am leaving them soaking in plain water then just giving them a light clean with my tooth brush.
Have noticed my lisp is still there but another co worker didn't notice my speech change, maybe just noticeable to me.
I'm wondering if anyone sucks on mints whilst their aligners are in and does it stain?
It's a weird feeling of having excess saliva in the mouth then bring quite dry so I've been drinking a lot of water, which is good.
Have had a few headaches but I'm putting that down to a slight head cold I have, no biggie. My blocked nose isn't helping my dry mouth either, it'll soon pass.
Still excited my journey has started!!????
Looking at my clinicheck I have 58 aligners. The first 2 I wear for 10 days then change weekly so I guess just over a year, fingers crossed.

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Hi guys, thought I'd give you my thoughts on tray 1 as I've now gone into tray 2.
I've gotten myself into a routine now and generally have my aligners out 4 times a day for around 20 minutes each time. I have 2 cups of tea in the morning then lunch afternoon tea then dinner so I floss 3 times a day. After my cups of tea in the morning I don't bother to floss, just brush.
When I'm at home I take my aligners out and pop them in some water then give them a light clean and rinse with my tooth brush and tooth paste. My ortho gave me some sensitive toothpaste to use.
Getting the aligners on and off has been easy so far but I've yet to get my attachments on, that is tray 3.
Knowing that I was changing over my aligners last night I drank my cup of tea, not hot, with them in and had a few glasses of red wine for research purposes to see if they stained the aligners, the things you do for research!!:)
Aligners didn't appear stained. This is the only time I have had them in whilst drinking anything other than water.
I'm still going through lots of saliva but I guess it's not as much as when I first started out. Drinking heaps of water which is good.
So I guess you could say I've had a good first week. I've wanted this for a long time so I'm still in a positive head space with it all. I can see how people can get frustrated with it all and feel like they have a mouthful of plastic. I haven't reached the stage of forgetting they are there yet and I still have a lisp as I have a type of bridge behind my 2 front top teeth to stop my overbite which affects my speech.
Has anyone else had these bridges in their journey?

Last night I swapped into tray 2 and they do feel snug but not painful as yet. I did file down all the edges so all good so far.
57 more trays to go, woohoo!!

Thanks for reading and I hope your journey is going well.
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