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45 Y/o Who Wants to Be Able to SMILE! :-D (UK)
UPDATED FROM Rockpea
Smiley wedding photos!!
$5,800
So I'm now Mrs H!! And the wedding was absolutely perfect :-) I felt so much more confident smiling broadly for the photos - thank you Invisalign!!!!!!!! My teeth aren't perfect but they're so much better than they were.
I had my attachments filed off on Thursday - and it was much faster than I expected. I was expecting much more drilling!!! I had a good chat with my dentist and we've agreed that I'm going to have a think before deciding on refinements. He reckons they're fine and now he's filed down a couple of edges on my front teeth I'm more in agreement. He's on paternity leave for all of April so I have an appt in early May to tell him my verdict! I will have to be very good with my aligners for the next six weeks as they're now acting as retainers!!
So now we're at Heathrow waiting to fly to Vegas on honeymoon :-) It will be nice to know I can be a bit more relaxed with my hours of wear, but I'll still be pretty stringent about it all. I hope you're all having as positive an experience with Invisalign as I've had!
I had my attachments filed off on Thursday - and it was much faster than I expected. I was expecting much more drilling!!! I had a good chat with my dentist and we've agreed that I'm going to have a think before deciding on refinements. He reckons they're fine and now he's filed down a couple of edges on my front teeth I'm more in agreement. He's on paternity leave for all of April so I have an appt in early May to tell him my verdict! I will have to be very good with my aligners for the next six weeks as they're now acting as retainers!!
So now we're at Heathrow waiting to fly to Vegas on honeymoon :-) It will be nice to know I can be a bit more relaxed with my hours of wear, but I'll still be pretty stringent about it all. I hope you're all having as positive an experience with Invisalign as I've had!
UPDATED FROM Rockpea
Onto my final trays! (For now)
So the wedding is a week tomorrow, and I popped my final trays in a couple of nights ago :-) I'm off to the dentist on Thursday to have my attachments filed off and get moulds taken for refinements. I'm thrilled with the improvement so far and will be smiling broadly in all my wedding photos I'm sure :-)
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H
March 12, 2017
Congrats on your wedding! So happy for you! Your teeth look fantastic from your last pic in January. By now even more so! It was great going through this experience with you. We made it! And it was so much easier than anticipated! : )
R
March 12, 2017
Thank you! Yes, we did make it!! I just had a little look on your review - you look amazing! :-) It really has been a breeze hasn't it? And it's flown by so fast. Your teeth are much nicer than mine, so my final smile sans aligners doesn't look nearly as lovely as yours. But I'm working on that! I'm going to do one round of refinements to try and sort my bottom teeth just a bit more (and to feel I've truly had my money's worth haha!), and then I'm going to see about veneers for the top front teeth. One step at a time though - first, the wedding!! 6 days and counting.... :-) x
M
March 20, 2017
Well done! I hope you had a fantastic wedding and congratulations on getting on so well with invisalign!! I'm back to my ortho on 7th April to have attachments off & impressions - I can't wait. I probably won't go for refinements as I'm happy with the results but I'll see what he says. Thanks for all your support - I'm so pleased for all of us who have stuck it out and are nearly at the end - it really has been worth it :)))
R
March 20, 2017
Ah thank you!! It al went brilliantly and I'm now Mrs H! We're currently at Heathrow all checked in and waiting for our flight to Vegas :-) I'm having second thoughts about refinements now too (about to do an update!) x
UPDATED FROM Rockpea
Progress!
So I'm on tray 17 and my dentist told me last month that I could start swapping them weekly :-) However... because I have 7 trays to go, and 8 weeks until the wedding (!) I've decided to wear them for 9 days each. I'm going in two days before the wedding day to have my attachments removed and I'll then continue to wear tray 23 as a retainer while on honeymoon etc. I'll have tray 24 to use if I lose tray 23, or it becomes too yucky to wear any longer!!
My plan is to ask my dentist to re-scan me when he takes off the attachments, so he can be processing my first refinement treatment when I'm on honeymoon. He's on paternity leave for most of April and so if we don't do it before that, I'd have to wait until May. But he's said he will be in for odd afternoons during April so hopefully he'd be happy to see me to hand over my first few refinement trays :-)
Anyway I've uploaded a pic I took this morning (it's so tricky to get good pics!!). Can you spot a difference??? It's only now that I can really see how much has changed - my front tooth is almost aligned now and the side teeth aren't nearly as sloped inwards. It's been so effortless too - for anyone wondering whether to do this or not... DO IT!! It's a walk in the park :-)
My plan is to ask my dentist to re-scan me when he takes off the attachments, so he can be processing my first refinement treatment when I'm on honeymoon. He's on paternity leave for most of April and so if we don't do it before that, I'd have to wait until May. But he's said he will be in for odd afternoons during April so hopefully he'd be happy to see me to hand over my first few refinement trays :-)
Anyway I've uploaded a pic I took this morning (it's so tricky to get good pics!!). Can you spot a difference??? It's only now that I can really see how much has changed - my front tooth is almost aligned now and the side teeth aren't nearly as sloped inwards. It's been so effortless too - for anyone wondering whether to do this or not... DO IT!! It's a walk in the park :-)
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M
January 19, 2017
Just went through your photos from when you started to now and the difference is amazing!!!!
Well done, your teeth look great!!
Thanks for updating your post and I hope everything goes great with the wedding.
Well done, your teeth look great!!
Thanks for updating your post and I hope everything goes great with the wedding.
H
January 20, 2017
Looking fantastic! I agree. It really has been such an easy process! I can't believe how much my teeth have changed in such a short amount of time!
M
March 14, 2017
Wow they look so good bella. Honestly i liked your before teeth too. I always think imlerfe t teeth make a person unique. But i do understand wanting better as i hate my own teeth. If i was rich id br going in for gum contouring and a full mouth of veneers. Your teeth are a beautiful shape so now that theyre straight they look even more amazing than before. Congratulations on wedding. All the best to you
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