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Smile Direct Club review crowding Clear Aligners for Teeth Invisilign Braces Alternative photo video
UPDATED FROM Rummel
4 days pre
Tray 1 of treatment plan
WORTH IT$1,350
Here we go...
Aligner #1/20
I will update every 3 weeks or as things come up :)
Just want to point out that I paid for my treatment on May 4th and received today. Only took 15 days!! I'm already impressed and can say the price difference is so worth going through the process.
Aligner #1/20
I will update every 3 weeks or as things come up :)
Just want to point out that I paid for my treatment on May 4th and received today. Only took 15 days!! I'm already impressed and can say the price difference is so worth going through the process.
UPDATED FROM Rummel
4 days pre
My aligners are here!!! :)))
Sooooo.... My aligners showed up today! Yay!!!! Right on schedule. Actually ahead of schedule! I received 10 out of the 20 aligner sets. Unfortunately one thing I noticed right away is I didn't receive my whitening gel. I spoke to a smile direct rep when I had to confirm the fit of my starter trays he informed me that if I pay for the aligners in full instead of payments I would receive a year supply of glo teeth whitening gel. As I stated before this was a huge selling point for me so it's pretty disappointing to open the box and not see the whitening gel. I called the customer service number and the rep said she would contact the department that ships out the aligners and will take care of it. So hopefully I will receive those shortly. I asked if it would come in one shipment but she said she didn't know but would look into it.
Anywho back to the new aligners :)
They are designed much better than the starter trays. Less plastic around the gums and seems to be better made than the starters.
So I put my first set in and they are tight!!! It's a much different feeling that braces. First off there's no metal scraping into your gums (you never forget that pain) it's like the dull pain after you bump your teeth. To me I like the feeling because it tells me the aligners are doing their job. In a couple hours I'll prob want to rip them out after the excitement wears off lol but for now I'm happy. If you read the comments above a dentist mentioned the "chewies" he said to chew on them for an hour each day to insure the aligners are set in correctly and help with the tooth movement. I'm chewing on one now and I hear clicking. I'm guessing since it's only been 20 min that my teeth haven't adjusted to the aligner so they will prob click for the first week or so. I will say when I first put them in they must not have been in all the way because after the chewies I felt them pop into place.
I'll update when I hear back or receive my whitening gel.
Use your chewies people!!!
Anywho back to the new aligners :)
They are designed much better than the starter trays. Less plastic around the gums and seems to be better made than the starters.
So I put my first set in and they are tight!!! It's a much different feeling that braces. First off there's no metal scraping into your gums (you never forget that pain) it's like the dull pain after you bump your teeth. To me I like the feeling because it tells me the aligners are doing their job. In a couple hours I'll prob want to rip them out after the excitement wears off lol but for now I'm happy. If you read the comments above a dentist mentioned the "chewies" he said to chew on them for an hour each day to insure the aligners are set in correctly and help with the tooth movement. I'm chewing on one now and I hear clicking. I'm guessing since it's only been 20 min that my teeth haven't adjusted to the aligner so they will prob click for the first week or so. I will say when I first put them in they must not have been in all the way because after the chewies I felt them pop into place.
I'll update when I hear back or receive my whitening gel.
Use your chewies people!!!
Replies (3)
D
May 19, 2016
I also got mine yesterday and was missing the years worth of whitening gel. When I chatted with Natasha today on their chat service on the website. She said I get the year supply with my retainers when I finish the 20 trays. Seems to be a lot of misinformation.
R
May 19, 2016
I agree on the miscommunication. The whole reason I paid in full was for the whitening gel. It's still risky using a new company and promised things that could change a year from now.
D
May 19, 2016
I texted back the re Randall I received my purchasing text from. He is the sales rep that told me if I paid in full I got 20 trays for 1200, set of free retainers and a yrs worth of whitening gel. He did say it comes at the end of treatment too when I get my 2 sets of retainers. That it notated in my file. Guess I have to wait a yr for that.
R
May 19, 2016
The rep I spoke to didn't say anything about the end of the treatment :( but... I just called and they are sending the years supply now because of the miscommunication :)
A
May 19, 2016
When they offered me the year worth of whitening gel, she told me that I would receive it after my 20 aligners were complete. They would come in with my retainer :)
Have you used the whitening gel the starter tray came with??
Have you used the whitening gel the starter tray came with??
R
May 19, 2016
What?!? That's so silly. I would rather have it now and use it while I'm stuck wearing these things!!! I'm going to call and see if I can get it now instead.
R
May 19, 2016
When you think of years supply you would think its a lot but according to this rep it's actually only ten tubes. I still find it to be false advertising because according to the glo website you're supposed to use one tube per day out of the packet. I guess you can stretch it out and make it last
A
R
May 24, 2016
Yes but she just said she was told 10 tubes is the year supply. Which is odd since you get 5 tubes with the starter trays. My friend is getting the treatment so I'm going to have her call and ask what they tell her. How is your treatment going so far? My teeth were killing me the first 3 days. I bought oragel to help.
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