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Try to wear your aligners the recommended amount of time - keeping them out longer is not cheating the system - it's cheating yourself. By doing so, you risk each aligner not being given sufficient time to complete it's work before moving on to the next one, and this can cause a cumulative effect that will, in time, mean that the aligners stop fitting well enough at all, and the whole treatment goes off track. Sometimes the situation can be recovered by stepping back and repeating several aligners (at the cost of delaying treatment by the number of weeks that those aligners need to be repeated) but sometimes it can be bad enough that the treatment needs to be "rebooted" - new impressions taken, and a whole new series of aligners fabricated - the delays incurred then also include the extra time spent waiting for those new trays to be made and sent to your doctor.
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