I see slight gaps "halos" and i raised concern to my orthodontist but he said to continue and its normal. The movement was felt throughout the week. Is my ortho crazy, should i trust his process?

Utilissimo video dottoressa Avrei una domanda: se io ho elastici con bottoni in metallo posizionati uno al terzultimo molare a sinistra e l altro al penultimo perché manca un molare a destra gli elastici devono essere di forze differenti oppure uguali per poter esercitare la stessa forza ? Grazie mille se mi risponderà🙏

Week 2 with daily headaches. I do suffer migraines .. will this get better ?

Thank you so much for posting this excellent video. I really appreciate it. Thank you for explaining the presence of dark triangles. Perhaps I will see these in myself as my Invisalign treatment progresses. I did not do a good job of taking care of my teeth over the decades. Now I am in my 60s and taking the steps that my dentist is recommending. I will see how it all progresses over the next few years.

Thank you so much for posting this excellent video. I'm a couple weeks into my Invisalign therapy, on my own set #2 of aligners. I have been trying to keep to 22 hours per day of wear time for my aligners, and I think I am succeeding. I understand the purpose of the 22 hour a day wear time. I am aware that to fix my crooked teeth, force will have to be applied to them over long periods of time. I want the process to succeed. So I will live with this and make the necessary sacrifices to achieve my goal. What I most dislike is not being able to sip cups of tea or coffee over a long time period like half an hour per cup while I am working. I have had to become really organized and efficient about breakfast and lunch meals over the past 4 years so those are no problem for me. The evening meal is harder for me. I try to prepare everything I want to eat in advance, then take my aligners off, start my TrayMinder timer, and eat quickly while playing a board game at the same time. I do hurry to finish my supper. I try to play the game as well. I get flustered when the TryMinder notification shows up on my phone and I'm still eating. I hurry off to floss my teeth, brush, and get my aligners back on. And then I feel a sense of relief that I'm done with meals till the following morning.

Thank you so much for posting this, Dr. Bailey. It makes me appreciate that teeth constantly have mechanical forces applied to them in different ways.

Thank you for posting this excellent video. I do work hard to meet a 22 hours a day goal with my aligners. I'm planning to give myself a break on my birthday when that comes around.

I've had both. Fixed braces when I was a teenager and the pain I experienced was indescribable. Due to not wearing my retainer, I have clear aligners in my 30s. I have experienced discomfort but nowhere near the pain I had with braces

Thank you so much for posting this excellent video. I really appreciate it. My major problem is that I love tea and coffee. I have greatly reduced my consumption of both since starting Invisalign treatment a little more than 2 weeks ago. What I do now is prepare my tea, and let it cool. I also prepare a meal. I eat the meal and drink down the tea quickly during the meal. I still get some of the unique taste of the tea, and that is acceptable to me. After my therapy is over, I can return to savoring tea slowly, over a half hour or more. For now, I make myself wear my aligners at least 22 hours a day. The TrayMinder app helps me a lot with this. Without it, I would not be so disciplined.

I just put in one of my last few trays and i now have what feel and look like attachments on the backside of my front teeth. What is the purpose of this?

Thank you so much for this excellent video. This really does help me understand more about my Invisalign therapy. You see, a few years ago, I had a bridge over the stump of a previously shattered tooth plus a neighboring tooth. One day the bridge simply fell right onto my tongue. I was quite surprised! My dentist examined me and concluded that I needed dental implants. I underwent oral surgery and went through a lengthy process to get the dental implants. I had at least 2 bone grafts as part of the process so clearly I was showing bone loss. Then, earlier this year, my dentist indicated that I need Invisalign therapy or I would have tooth damage. I agreed to it, so I'm now on my second set of aligners. So based on my actual experience as a patient -- as someone with a gap in my upper teeth -- understand better why surgery may be needed for some people. I am one of those cases.

May I know what about the upper jaw? The maxilar? I have seen the gummy smile being resolved with braces and TADs.

Thank you for posting this excellent video. I really appreciate your helpful explanations. I learn from you each time I watch the content you post- --- including the "shorts". Your videos not only teach me about my teeth, they help me see my teeth and jaws as living structures that need special care. I do use the TrayMinder app on my phone and it is very helpful to me and makes me very conscious of the need to keep my aligners on my teeth 22 hours a day. Without TrayMinder it would be very easy for me to leave my aligners out just too long. I also took a "teethie" this morning and it was a thrill.

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Thank you so much for posting this excellent video. I too love how you explain everything. I'm in my second week of Invisalign therapy and I should learn on Tuesday if I can use my second set of aligners.

This is exactly what my ortho told me. I just got them a few days ago.

Hi Dr. Bailey, I am sorry this happened to you. I hope you were able to resolve the issue satisfactorily.

Thank you so much for this tip, Dr. Bailey. I appreciate your advice and I try to follow it.

I had my first set of aligners fitted yesterday and my orthodontist showed me I had 2 red chewies in my pack and I had to ask him what they were for? He just said “after you have put your trays back in just chew on them for 5 seconds “ I’m SO glad I watched this and I’ve got the trayminder app to help me all the way😊

Thank you so much for this suggestion. Long ago, as a teenager, I daydreamed of becoming a microbiologist, and I know you are correct. But I never "thought" to myself that I better clean my case carefully. This is a big help to me as I get started on my Invisalign therapy. Thanks!

Thank you Dr. Bailey for all of your helpful information and your tray minder app(which I am using 😊) I just started my 3M Clarity treatment two days ago. I’m 47. On a 7 day schedule for now and wearing elastics. 21 trays until 1st refinement . All of the things! lol

Thank you so much for posting this excellent video. I feel much more informed and confident as I proceed with watching each of your videos on Invsalign aligners and associated topics. I wish I had done this before starting my Invisalign treatment. I am in my very first week of the treatment as I write this. I am determined to follow recommended method of wearing my aligners for 22 hours a day, and through your videos, I understand much better now why that is necessary. As I mentioned elsewhere, I installed the TrayMinder app and find it extremely useful. It will help me see ultimate success with my orthodontic treatment. Thank you so much for all the time and effort you invested in creating these videos.

Thank you so much for posting this excellent video. It helps me understand better why I need such a long time (over a year) to correct my teeth. I'm an older person in my 6os and I am in my first week of Invisalign treatment. In fact I have not yet completed week one. In a few more days I will (smile.) This helps me appreciate that teeth are living things with their own special environment that is provided to optimize their ability to do their jobs. I also started appreciating that my jaws are living things, as are all my bones, and they work on their own time scales and not the time scale that someone might wish for. I installed your TrayMinder app on my phone yesterday to help me keep to the 22 hour target for wearing my aligners and it is very, very helpful. I appreciate the app a lot. Thank you so much for creating and maintaining it.

Thank you so much for posting this excellent video. Now I understand how to use chewies. I have a bunch from Amazon Marketplace, and they taste most very disgusting. Still, I will use my chewies. Perhaps I will get some mints.

Thank you so much for posting this excellent video. I am in my very first week of Invisalign treatment. I am finding it very difficult to remove the trays. They seem to have a grip of steel on my teeth. I watched both your videos on this subject, and I hope further practice will make me more skilled.

Thank you for posting this excellent video. I am an older person in my 60s. I am just starting Invisalign treatment. I am in learning mode. I'm using Retainer Brite at this time, but I thought it was expensive when I ordered it from Amazon. I might try ordering generic denture cleaning tablets from Target if the price is a lot lower.

Thank you so much for posting this excellent video. I am just starting Invisalign therapy. I am an older person in my 60s. I understand better now why I have a 14 days-per-aligner treatment plan.

Thank you so much for posting this excellent video. Now I am able to see and understand the use of wax.

Thank you so much for posting this excellent video. I am a new Invisalign user. I discovered your channel yesterday and I would like to see most or all of your videos. One of your suggestions has already helped me a lot: to use Cerave brand Healing Ointment to deal with dry lips.

Thank you so much for providing this wonderful video. I'm in my very first week of Invisalign therapy and I also watched your "Starting Invisalign Guide". The tip about Cerave Healing Ointment is wonderful. I am an older person in my late 60s. I am going to watch all your videos. Thank you for being so helpful!

Excellent explenation😮👏 But why do they move back after treatment?? All these process goes backwards by just not wearing retainers for only one night?? All these blood vessels and bone cells creation just goes back in a blink of an eye??😢

Thank you for these videos. Yesterday was my first day with aligners and I struggled to remove the tray. Try using a piece of folded kitchen towel for a better grip. It worked for me.

I have the exact little box for my Invisalign’s 😂😅

This case is seen in my child during sleeping and rest position. She is 5 what would be the treatment

I got blue bumpers on my back teeth with braces. Still working on my deep bite. Hard to eat with them

I am having my first aligners fitted in a few weeks and I’ve been addicted to chewing nicotine gum for too many years and I know I’ve got to stop which will be really hard. I’m on lots of pain meds that make my mouth dry so really need something to suck on and wondered if sugar free mints would help while I’m wearing them. I actually brought some nicotine Mini’s which are sugar free to take the edge off my cravings in the beginning until I wean right off. Would it be possible to use these for a few weeks? They just sit on the inside of your cheek

I load up when I have them out because I know that’s it for at least a few hours. Good luck doc!

Cotton ????

Is there any solution for that? Its been my problem since pandemic and I can't find a way to remove that tongue mannerism from myself

In my final refinement set, ortho mistakenly applied way excessive force. This has led my last tray being taken off for a while in order to reduce inflammation and widespread dental pathology derived from such a force. Now that I'm not wearing any aligner at all, my teeth are returning to its previous positions at a fast pace. Although I need a re-scan once swelling subsides, as long as it takes 3 months to deliver the trays after scanning: won't the teeth be out of sync by then as teeth keep shifting back? will it be like a carrot-and-stick approach?

Invisalign was the worst experience I’ve had. They are so inconsistent in the way the trays were made. They even made some trays with extra wisdom teeth for example, or higher than my teeth, so many didn’t fit, the times my orthodontist had to get them to remake them was ridiculous. Bad reviews in the UK. Train tracks were better when I was younger. The discomfort really isn’t that bad.

She made me feel better with this advice

Can you fix deep bite with gummy smile (so I would prefer getting my upper teeth up, as you said) using invisalign or do you think braces would work better?up

I have 2 attachments on my front tooth. One of them fell off. I have 6 more aligners after which I have to get scan for next set refinements. What are the chances of me having to not get replacement for that one attachment?

Many thanks Dr. Bailey. You care about your patients

So if Iam correct you yourself went with the Hawley? I am getting my braces off in a few weeks and they are pushing me towards the clear retainer to keep my teeth as straight as possible. However, if it doesnt last as long. It makes the decision harder. Not even sure which ome to get at this point. Can you tell me why YOU decided on the Hawley??

My orthodontist said that i just need brush and water. But what about bacteria, will it get rid of it. And my dentist said not to use vinegar. What should i do?

Can we use salt water for cleaning retainer? Or life boy liquid hand wash will cause any damage?

Can we use alcohol free mouthwash

I came here to write a comment because after watching your videos I started using the trayminder app. This app is so convinient and easy to use. I love the how easy it is to use (unlike invisalign app that is chunky and needs login each time), also the report/graph is very helpful. And I really appreciate the reasonable price it has for premium features, unlike many apps that are money traps.