Invisalign Reviews

Torie   FTThIYJWbRNHCAj

Posted at 9:04am on Monday, January 30th, 2012

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Brian   Massachusetts

Posted at 12:45am on Sunday, December 18th, 2011

Invisalign will work. I have had severe crowding on the bottom and crooked on the top. I've had my tops for a few months and just started on the bottom after having a tooth extracted. It works but you have to wear them all the time unless you're eating. I drink everything while they're in and brush 3 times a day. No staining problems. The only real pain is the first day of a new tray. The urge to bite down is somewhat annoying but that goes away after your teeth adjust and move with the new tray. The mental anguish of having a bad smile is way more pain than what invisalign can give even on your worst day. I'm 42 and I look forward to each new tray. I'm one more closer to a great smile.

Kim   Kentucky

Posted at 4:09am on Saturday, October 29th, 2011

I've been wearing invisalign for 14 months. I feel like most people here have given invisalign very negative reviews and I feel like that's very unfair. Invisalign is designed for someone who doesn't want traditional braces and is a wonderful product. I'm finished with 7 aligners on the bottom and am currently on tray 29 of 36 on the top. Although there may be a few negatives, the positives by far outweigh the negatives. I think my teeth will be very straight when I get done with the last tray. My bite isn't perfect. I still have too much of an overbite. However, I am 38 and didn't want traditional braces. So I feel like invisalign gave me something that I would never have had otherwise... a nice smile. My invisalign cost about the same as traditional braces. I have priced them for my 11 year old daughter and they are about the same. I will not allow her to get invisalign and wouldn't recommend them for anyone in middle or high school. First, if an aligner is lost, it's over $100 to replace.. plus lost time. Also, I don't see how at school a kid would have time to brush as he/she is supposed to.. they barely have enough time to eat lunch. Plus my daughter would be too embarrassed to go into the bathroom and whip out her toothbrush! Also I wonder if some who have had negative experiences about their teeth not moving properly have worn them like they were supposed to. Invisalign is a commitment and if you aren't going to wear them all the time, then don't waste your money.

Kristy   rIoeHIlAzeneAl

Posted at 1:44pm on Tuesday, September 13th, 2011

At last, smonoee comes up with the "right" answer!

Mary Jane   Nebraska

Posted at 4:41pm on Monday, September 5th, 2011

My teeth were pretty bad, and I was assigned to wear 33 trays on top and 37 trays on the bottom. My top teeth are great, my bottom, no so hot. I had one tooth that was very bad, and hadn't moved as it should. I had revisions done, and then finally the tooth moved after a button and elastics. However, I am on the last tray, the tooth is still not straight and I asked for revisions AGAIN, and doubt that Invisilign will agree to do them and want extra money to make them (Mind you, I paid $4,000 and was told that unlimited revisions were included in that price). I admit my teeth are much better. However, if Invisilign will not revise without an additional charge, I will just get a spacer put in and go to an orthodontist. DO NOT GO TO A DENTIST TO DO THESE!!!! HEED THE WARNINGS MENTIONED ABOVE and go to an orthodonist, especially if you have a cross-bite and severely crowded teeth!!! I wish I would have. PS I keep my trays in almost 24 hours a day and only take them out to eat. Since it is a pain to floss and brush everytime you eat/drink...I eat/snack less...Invisilign, s***s at straightening teeth but great at starvation induced weight loss!!!!

keisha anthony   trinidad

Posted at 6:56pm on Friday, September 2nd, 2011

I wish i could have that joy to smile.

Marcia   New York City

Posted at 3:14am on Thursday, August 11th, 2011

I just started the system last week, but know several people who went through the process and are EXTREMELY happy with the results. I'm 56 years old, and the other users I know are older as well. So far, I find the braces a bit annoying when I focus on them, but don't notice them at all when I'm otherwise involved. My course of treatment is projected at 7 months, and I'm beyond thrilled that for once in my life I may be able to smile freely! Since I've lived with my wonky teeth for 5+ decades, any improvement will be a delight.

Heather   Massachusetts

Posted at 3:29pm on Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

Also if you REALLY want to get a good Ortho or Dentist that KNOWS what he or she is doing go to Invisalign.com and go to "find dentist" and type in your zip code. Preferred dentists or orthos are one the site. If the dentist you went to is not on there. well then... i guess we know why your invisalign isn't working out very well...

Heather   Massachusetts

Posted at 3:24pm on Wednesday, July 13th, 2011

I have had my invisalign for one week now. I am on my first set of trays 10 upper and 10 lower. I got my attachements put on immediatly, and got used to them right away.

YES your mouth will be sore, what do you really expect? the pain will go away in a few days, so relax.

If you went to a DENTIST instead of a ORTHODONTIS expect a much longer procedure time and more than half of the people that do not do their research end up disappointed.

So don't blame invisalign for not working, blame your dentist that doesn't know what hes doing.

When you get your trays your ortho will tell you that you will need to store your current set in a blue container that is given to you, once you move onto your second set you will put your first set into the red container and keep your current set in the blue.

If you happen to lose your aligners you can ALWAYS reuse your old set that you keep as a backup while your ortho orders you a new one. So please no excuses about you losing your set. Thats no ones fault but your own.

Follow instructions.

Do NOT eat with your aligners in. Take them out and then brush your teeth, brush your aligners to remove plague and floss your teeth, wet the aligners and put them back in. Not so hard to do.

Make sure your orthodontist is licenced to work with Invisalign, and spends the time explaining EVERYTHING to you. ASK QUESTIONS!

Invisalign should take no longer than a year and for some like me who are on Invisalign Express it takes less than 6 months.

If it takes you longer than that, something is wrong. Probably your dentist.

If you do not wear your invisalign for the time your ortho tells you (for me its 23 hours a day) expect your teeth to shift back.

If you are one of those people that ' doesn't like to wear them out in public ' then you really should never have got them. You need to be dedicated, if you don't wear your invisalign while you are supposed to expect a few things.

Your teeth WILL shift back or become worse because now they are loose.

Your invisalign will no longer fit, which means you will need to be refitted which tacks on extra weeks for the new set to come in.

You WILL be charged for the additional aligners.

don't waste your money! Keep your invisalign in!

I have slight crowding on my bottom teeth and my two front teeth are crooked although no one could ever tell unless i bit something. I can feel my teeth moving as we speak.

I trust my ortho he is a friend of the family and he is wonderful. Make sure yours knows what he is doing.

I am sorry for all of you that are having poor experiences. But i bet that a lot of them were due to the fact that a lot of you kept your invisalign out for an extended period of time and now you need more time with the aligners.

Hope that everything works out for you in the end.

kev k   i am a human

Posted at 10:42pm on Sunday, May 29th, 2011

on tray 25 of 27 wot the f*** i wud rather poo my pants every day of the week than waste f***ing hard earned cash on this s***. i hope ive bin great help freaks bot faced bastards u r all stupid pigs with messed up teeth good look with your s*** treatment. good f***ing bye losers i bot fruit salid and i eat lots of gud fish and s***. dont waste your cash on this product its like buying a good fish and leaving with a emtey bag. yawn yawn invisalghn pig faces. i need a poo. im sour. i bum salad me. yawn invisaline u stink

Louise   Leeds

Posted at 9:38pm on Friday, May 27th, 2011

I've had my Invisalign braces for 15 months now and I am very disappointed with the results, my incisors are still prominent and my overbite large. I feel that there is still much corrective work to do be done, but I only have 4 more weeks of treatment left (top set).

I made the mistake of having a small break in treatment 8 months ago (for my Wedding), this resulted in new mouldings and course of treatment. However my new brace didn't sit on my bottom set and after wasting 8 weeks trying to realign my teeth with buttons / elastic bands I am now resigned to wearing 2/3 of a brace on my bottom set, this has been ongoing for 3 1/2 months now.

I paid an extra £250 for the adjustment and feel that it has been a complete waste of my money (£3,650 in total) as well as my time.

If someone was to ask me if I'd recommend the treatment, I would be reluctant to do so.

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kev k   england

Posted at 6:43pm on Thursday, May 12th, 2011

on tray 7 of 27 teeth have moved loads i bot Invisalign there great. still got on long b**** of a year left like. hope ive bin a great help losers and j***s

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Posted at 5:40pm on Thursday, May 12th, 2011

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Posted at 8:28pm on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

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Posted at 10:52am on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

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Milly   GpQMxBAgbIb

Posted at 4:52am on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

Thank God! Soomnee with brains speaks!

Laura   King George, VA

Posted at 12:48am on Tuesday, May 10th, 2011

My advice is, after throwing away over $5,000 on Invisalign braces on my daughter's teeth and ultimately having to spend another $5,000 to have her use conventional braces, do not consult with a dentist first to find out if Invisalign will work in your case. See an orthodontist. I did speak initially with an orthodontist with whom we'd been consulting while my kids were young and we knew they'd need braces someday. When the kids were teens, they wanted to learn more about Invisalign; but the orthodontist didn't offer them and didn't seem to know much about them. We took our kids to the local dentist to whom my husband was going at the time, who offered Invisalign. She examined both my daughter's and son's teeth and enthusiastically proclaimed they were both good candidates for Invisalign braces. I pointed out how crowded both my daughter's and son's bottom teeth were, and she said that was not a problem. Said my daughter would be done with the upper trays in just a little over a year and the bottom trays in just a few more months after that. At the end of the supply of upper trays, her top teeth, which were not that bad to begin with, still did not get pulled completely straight. Dentist said she needed revisions (I think that's what she called them) to complete the straightening. This meant another round of pictures and impressions of her teeth (a nasty process) and another set of trays. At one visit after this, the dentist filed down the side of one of my daughter's incisors to the gumline such that the tooth lost its shape and looks weird. Didn't consult with me first, just did it and told me that it was necessary to help the movement of the teeth into position with the braces. This was very painful for my daughter who told me later she was in tears and asking dentist to stop, but the woman told her she had to file it down just a little more. After a few more months, her upper teeth looked about the same, not quite aligned, and dentist told us that was the best we were going to get. My daughter now had a small gap next to that incisor. Meanwhile, when my daughter finished the trays for her bottom teeth, the result was very disappointing. Still quite crooked. More pictures and impressions of her bottom teeth. More trays. Her teeth weren't budging. Dentist then informed us that she'd need to put "buttons" on the front and back of certain of my daughter's bottom teeth and would cut notches in the trays in order to loop rubber bands around the buttons from the front to the back over the trays. She assured us that she'd had to do this with other patients, and this method would work to pull the teeth up out of her gums in order to help the teeth move into proper position. This meant that now my daughter would have to work these rubber bands off and on every time she removed and replaced the braces. I had never heard of such a thing. We were now approaching a timeline where my daughter would have been done with conventional braces by now. As you can imagine, my daughter and I were fast losing any faith in this dentist and these braces. After a few more weeks of no noticeable changes, we stopped going back for any more trays (the dentist held the trays) and consulted with an orthodontist who offered Invisalign along with conventional braces. The orthodontist said my daughter was not a good candidate for Invisalign due to how crowded her teeth were and the fact that teeth had to be pulled up from the gum--Invisalign can't handle these conditions. He shook his head at the filed-down tooth. He remarked that the tooth should never have been filed down to the gumline and should not have had so much filed off of it (probably needn't have been filed at all). And don't get me started on those ridiculous buttons! My daughter got regular braces on her top and bottom teeth and was done with the process in about 2 years. Her teeth are perfectly straight and beautiful as you expect them to be after $5,000 on braces. She first got the Invisalign when she was 15 and was extremely conscientious about wearing them. Just finished some months back with regular braces at 20 years old. If you're interested in Invisalign braces, I urge you to first consult with an orthodontist who offers Invisalign as well as conventional braces for the following reasons: an orthodontist has the additional training needed to make a proper determination about what devices will properly achieve the results desired in each case; a dentist doesn't have that training and is only allowed to offer Invisalign braces. This results in a conflict of interest when they make a recommendation regarding their use in any specific case. If they are honest and tell you they're not a good choice in your case, they lose that potential income because they have no alternative to offer. Invisalign trains the dentists, but apparently does not turn anyone away when those pictures and impressions are received at the lab regardless of whether or not their product will work on each case. They're just out for the money. There does not appear to be any oversight at all on their part. So, in our case, the dentist abused our trust by recommending a product that was doomed to fail from the start, but she made a lot of money off us. In her determination to try to make the Invisalign braces work, she damaged my daughter's tooth which will now need repair. For these reasons, I question the ethics of any dentist being permitted to sell Invisalign braces. By the way, the dentist never contacted us to find out why my daughter hadn't returned to get her subsequent sets of trays. I'm sure she was glad to be rid of us because we'd gone way beyond the normal treatment protocols, and I'm sure it was cutting into her profit. The good news is that our son declined braces at that time, so we didn't throw away even more money! Needless to say, we do not use that dentist any longer. As far as Invisalign versus conventional braces, conventional braces have come such a long way in being discreet in appearance, so that aspect alone should not dissuade one from getting them. My daughter experienced a lot of discomfort when she first got Invisalign braces. They tore up the inside of her mouth and were very hard to get the hang of pulling out at first. Each new tray is painful when first inserted because it's moving teeth. This isn't any different from the pain one experiences when braces are tightened. In my daughter's case, she was amazed at how quickly she saw results when she got conventional braces; it seemed like a miracle compared to how slowly (and ultimately ineffectively) the Invisalign worked for her. But this was because they were never going to work to make the corrections her teeth needed. Based on additional research I've done since our daughter went through that experience, there are really only limited circumstances where Invisalign can be responsibly recommended, e.g., an adult who's had braces before and their teeth have gotten a little out of alignment over time or someone with very small correction needed. From what I've read, children or teenagers usually would not be a good fit for Invisalign. I hope my sharing of this experience will help others avoid similar pitfalls (and unnecessary loss of hard-earned money!).

Madison   Century City (Los Angeles)

Posted at 11:50pm on Wednesday, April 20th, 2011

So far i have had invisalign for 24 hours, my teeth are shifting in every direction as we speak took affect right away. So far so good by I hope I have a beautiful smile when it's all said and done I hate my smile right now! Please work invisalign I need you!

kev k   human

Posted at 8:58pm on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

im on tray 2 of 27 so far so gud first two r 3 days after changing to new aliner a little painful. no one at work has noticed yet wich is suprising because the bumps fixed on my teeth at all times look shocking. these bastards better work the total cost was £3600

Heidi   Minnesota

Posted at 1:22am on Monday, March 7th, 2011

I've had invisiline braces for three and a half years now, and I'm not even close to finished. I expect that to get the kind of result I want, will need traditional braces. Bottom line, invisiline just does not have enough muscle, so if you have anything other than barely crooked teeth, don't do it.

Beba   Rochester

Posted at 8:08pm on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

I started Jan 2009 I'm on the 15th set of Invisalign and they told me I'm half way of my treament.I only seen one tooth move on the back and its been 1 year and 2 months since i had them. My other teeths are still the same. They said after my half treatment i will see them move.. lets see i want this treatment to be done already but remember these invisalgn are not that clear you can tell you have them on...also alot of people had said it works... is some of ya had a front tooth on top of the other and is fixed.. email me i want to see how many ligners u used.. sandrupy33@yahoo.com

Paul   Ontario

Posted at 2:57pm on Saturday, February 26th, 2011

Just finished my 16 of 16 trays of Invisalign and i dont like the result. Rather than wasteing more time in them I'm now getting wire braces and wish I had done them in the first place. If you want your teeth to look perfect dont waste your money on Invisalign.