smile786

Hello All,

I apologize for not updating this often but I guess nothing new has happened. I've been done my upper refinement aligners for about 6 weeks now. After 5/8U and 5/14L I wore each aligner for only a week at a time. Right now I am on 13/14L and finished on top. My ortho is very happy with my progress in fact I have "over-correction" on the top because he was like 'one of your teeth has a tendency to relapse back to its original position.' So it looks crooked in pix...
Also, I started using crest whitestrips advanced seal like 3 days ago. They say you see a difference after 3 days and boy do i see a difference. I drink dark tea with a little bit of milk twice a day and so my teeth are pretty stained but I like where this is going. I will say I don't wear my trays as long as I should or did when I first started invisalign on any given day anymore. Maybe 21 hours a day and days when I have stuff going on maybe 20 hours. The whitestrips are to be worn 30 minutes and I usually wear my trays lightly on top of the whitestrips. Also, while I see results already they've made my teeth super sensitive.

I'll update this more often. I have 2 more weeks till I'm done wearing any new trays but I have to keep wearing my aligners for 6 weeks till I get my retainers.

As for satisfaction, I've come a LONGGG way since I started and I definitely am happy about the results. I just wish my midlines matched, but hey what can you do. I will tell my ortho this when i see him and if I can get that fixed, I may actually get it fixed. The only thing is that I start grad school mid august and am moving an hour away (without traffic) so i gotta figure out if starting treatment is even going to be feasible. That's all for the update...

Here are some pix of my teeth today (I realize these are out of order, if you want to see before pix please scroll to my older entries. as for why my teeth look white, its a different camera or the whitestrips are ACTUALLy working . If you guys want I can do a review on Crest Whitestrips Advanced Seal too. I'll keep you posted as for what my ortho suggests when i'm finished refinements.

Enjoy...

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