2 teeth later…
Well, that hurt.
Two extractions and 10 days later, I got my first pair of invisalign aligners.
Yes i had two premolars yanked out.
Actually it wasn’t bad. The anesthetic really works and you’re just left with a big hole in your smile. Or two in my case.
How do the the aligners feel?
Well, did you ever get the feeling that your teeth are ever so slightly out of position and you just need to push them back with your tongue? Yes? Once or twice? Well, imagine that sensation on most of your teeth and they won’t go back. It doesn’t really hurt. Just uncomfortable to begin with. But this feeling wears off after a few days and then you’ve just got the unusual sensation of having all your teeth covered in plastic.
Of course its taken a few days to learn to speak properly with them in – there’s less room in your moth to move your tongue around as you speak you see. So you have to open your mouth wider and pronounce esses, tees and and simlar sounds more with the teeth and less with the tongue.
I also had my first batch of stripping – removing a small amount of enamel between two teeth to create more space for them to move. This was a little hair-raising for the first minute, because it’s done with what looks like a mini grinder and a measuring tool you might recognize from tuning your spark plugs. The process is actually painless and pretty quick too.
My next set of aligners is due in a week, already I think I’m starting to see some improvement from this one.
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