about me
This is the story of my Invisalign Braces experience as an adult patient. I am in my mid-thirties and I live in Brisbane, Australia. I started wearing braces in December 2008 and have 34 sets of aligners to wear, for my first run.
I’m just an ordinary Invisalign patient. I have no affiliation with Invisalign or any other organisation. I set up this blog purely as a way to help other people decide whether or not they are interested in Invisalign for themselves.
That is why I want to stress that everything on this blog is simply my opinion- I am not a specialist and honestly, please don’t take what I write as medical advice!
I would love to hear from anyone via the comments forms. If you have any more specific questions about the blog please let me know via the contact page.
Thanks so much for reading!
Wish me luck!
Best wishes to you! I too have invisalign…on #9 right now. Been using them since about august ‘09. I’m 47 and decided i’m finally tired of crooked teeth! So far, so good.
January 2nd, 2010 at 2:48 pmHi Rick,
January 12th, 2010 at 7:08 amThanks for reading! Glad to hear that your teeth are going well too. My Orthodontist told me that he has patients in their 60’s having Invisalign. Reassuring to know that braces aren’t just for teenagers! I was thinking the other day that I wish that I had done this years ago, but the truth is I don’t because I couldn’t really have done it before and been as happy. Invisalign didn’t exist then and I’m sure metal braces would not have been half such a pleasant experience as this has been.
Anyway, good luck with your treatment and thanks again for reading.
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January 15th, 2010 at 9:14 pmThanks for doing this. I’m a dentist in the states that uses Invisalign and I refer my patients to your website. Really insightful!
Thank you Patsy! I am glad to help anyone I can in making their decision. As I said to Rich above, I only wish that Invisalign had existed years ago so that I could have had these teeth before now.
Thank you again for sending me more readers!
January 20th, 2010 at 10:49 amHi – thanks for your blog, its really interesting. I won a makeover contest here in the UK and am having Invisalign treatment – I’m on top tray 2 of 29, my bottom ones start at tray 14… I am finding it night on impossible to keep these things in for the required number of hours due to my diet coke habit! and have exactly the same probs with the school run in the morning, suddenly they’ve been out 1hr or more without me realising… am going to try better though since reading your blog as your results are fantastic.
February 4th, 2010 at 8:56 pmHi Christine,
I know what you mean about the diet coke. I think I’ve reduced my habit a little, but no more than that.
I am really pleased with my results so far, but as you say compliance is the hardest thing. I almost wish that they were very difficult to get as that would make me wear them more instead of constantly whipping them out for a snack!
Good luck with your treatment. How fantastic to get a makeover as a prize! What else did that entail?
Anyway, hope your treatment goes ok. The school run is a killer. I often get halfway down the road before I realise that my mouth is empty and I can’t turn back just having yelled for half an hour to get everyone into the car..
Hope your treatment goes well.
February 5th, 2010 at 3:09 amHi, am having moulds taken next week, long journey ahead of me…v nervous about the pain/ulcers/speech problems, so will read your blog with great interest !
xx
February 20th, 2010 at 3:48 pmI started Invisalign at 52 years young. For many of the same reasons posted here. My first set of trays included 34 upper and lower. After completing that I received 22 refinement trays – way more than I was expecting. However, my lower canines have been slow to move in, and I knew they were nowhere as in place as I would have hoped for at the end. I will always wonder if traditional wire braces might have worked faster.
February 25th, 2010 at 11:06 pm