Hey friends,

I have let a few months go by without a post once again. Time really seems to be going by fast. I have made it successfully to tray set 17 of 32. That brings me to just over the half way point of my initial treatment.

My Invisalign experience has been moving along nicely without too much to report. I've had my second round of IPR and just today had a routine dental check up.

I was really looking fwd to the dental checkup just to confirm my...

Hello friends,

Once again, I have managed to let 10 weeks slide away without a blog post. Today, I find myself enjoying aligner set number 11, which also marks 1/3 of my pre-refinement stage complete!

Over the past 10 weeks, I have definitely noticed that the gap in my lower arch continues to close up with no signs of the teeth tipping. The two incisors are coming together nicely and remaining vertical. In the pics below, you can observe the gap reduction that has taken...

Hi Friends,

I'm a little overdue for an update. It's been several weeks, and I'm now on tray 6/32. I'm just starting to notice some changes in my teeth now. Nothing too drastic, but there has been progress.

The gap in my lower arch is starting to close up. It's hard to tell with the naked eye, but my tongue doesn't poke through as easily as it did after the extraction. Since having the attachments installed, I've also noticed that the 2 incisors that are moving over...

Hi Friends,

Today marked another milestone in my Invisalign adventure. I had 7 attachments installed and survived the infamous IPR experience!

I have 2 attachments on the upper arch on a canine and a premolar. The remaining 5 are on the lower arch on the incisors next to the extraction site and on the premolars.

The attachments procedure was pretty straight forward. First, the teeth were polished and cleaned to prepare the surface for the bonding material....

Hi Friends,

I wasn't too sure if I wanted to post my pre-Invisalign pic without being able to immediately follow it up with the after-Invisalign pic....but then I figured, if I was going to be a respectable bolgger, I better do things right.

So here it is...'brace' yourselves! It's pretty ugly, but it can only get better!



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