hey it's Dr Amanda with Street smile Solutions straightsmilesolutions.com and today I just
wanted to make an addendum to a previous um YouTube video that I posted I think yesterday
so what is today today is the 4th of January 2023. if you go into my YouTube channel there
yup it was yesterday I posted it 17 hours ago um I titled it Invisalign professional whitening system
and you can see I'm doing a do I did an unboxing of the Invisalign professional whitening system
they have two separate whitening systems this is one that we ordered for the first time in
our office so I just kind of want to show you what it looked like because now whenever you do
a refinement a new case or even Viber it's going to give you an option to purchase whitening and I
feel like a lot of doctors are confused as to should they even do this is this a good value
um you know what are my options here what are the instructions to the patient and it's a little
confusing when you purchase initially because you're like okay I obviously know something
about whitening but you know should I even be doing this so let me I had a really nice team
member of invisalignoline technology and as much as you know I dude I lost my territory manager
again this is like the hundredth time I had this amazing territory manager and she's gone now so
that was my person you know we just went out to lunch we had a great lunch and then she quit so
um so this is my new guy so um yeah I have someone to ask questions too because I feel like they have
so much turnover but anyways so this is what he said okay so and then you can see when I ordered
this kit which was the professional the adopter version the wrong insert was in it and that's
why I was so confused so when you watch my video that I posted 17 hours ago you can see I was super
confused now everything's clarified so I'm gonna tell you exactly how it works so if you order the
patient facing one I believe it's 35 or 40 dollars you can double check you're gonna get four three
milliliter syringes of ten percent whitening jump okay those are available for doctors to
order but patients self-administer them at home I believe patients can also order directly from
the Invisalign store which is a patient-facing store there's a doctor facing Invisalign store
and there's a patient facing a design store if you didn't know that where they can buy their
stickables and they can buy their cases and they could buy their whitening tabs whitening syringes
cleaning tabs a liner cases I mean everything all the bling that you can get with Invisalign to make
it fun so um that is the 10 you get four syringes if you order the doctor facing one you get one
forty five percent and one ten percent the 45 is meant you do not sign your patient home with that
okay so that that is where it's super important that you guys know this because your patient will
burn their gums if they don't do this properly and I feel like the path that I got even though
this was the insert that was missing like it is so not clear and you got to keep in mind that a
lot of you are having your team members open your Invisalign boxes you know and then there's going
to be this whitening kit and they're really not gonna know they're not supposed to send that home
with a patient it's not it's very in small but in small print that it's the doctor facing one
or the patient facing one so you want to make sure I kind of wish they had more warnings on
it because I mean if I wasn't smart enough to pick up on this I knew something was off when I opened
the box yesterday obviously it was an unboxing video I'm like I don't know what's going on um
but you really really ask like 45 is really strong I certainly wouldn't feel comfortable giving that
to a patient so the way it's supposed to work you're supposed to do 30 minutes in office with
their tray and like I said in the video yesterday studies show and I have not yet tried this myself
so I'm about to try this on my daughter who has Invisalign and we just did a refinement
um she's got the 45 percent we'll we'll do it in office whatever the office is down the street it's
not a big deal um but they say you can bleach through the attachments so we'll find out I
always think oh it's going to be a spot there's going to be a DOT you know there's going to be a
modeling but they say there's not they're saying the waning goes right through the attachment and
she's got a lot of attachments on front teeth so I will let you guys know um I'll let you guys know
when the attachments come off if we have dots but um that won't be anytime soon but um yeah
30 minutes in office with the 45 percent um and then you also get another touch up for at home
um and it says there is a training module as well that they sent a link for and that's
pretty much it so hopefully that was helpful you can see the instructions right here they
recommend doing a shade all that you you know basic stuff of course don't forget to wipe the
excess Whitening Gel off especially 40 to 45 percent really really really important
um and don't load too much gel in areas with missing teeth
um less gel is required for ridges trays than for soft trays huh there's two trays okay that makes
no sense to me what's a rigid versus soft I mean unless they're talking about vivera versus regular
aligners but that's not clear they really should redo that seat tray remove the extra gel off
um three 30-minute sessions in a single appointment that's using a lot of chair time
pricing is they don't have the desensitization the potassium whatever that stuff is potassium
chloride is that what it is I kind of would love to see that in that kit I feel like if I
did three 30-minute sessions with 45 carbonyl peroxide I would be a heart like heartened so
um but you know that's not in there so I will let you guys know how it goes we are definitely
not doing three sessions in one appointment we'll do one thirty minute and then see how
it goes but all right thanks so much so these are the real instructions thank you so much to
the team in Align Technology for being super nice and collaborative I was just so pleased that they
watched my videos um and they so kindly asked me to re-record this and I said no problem I always
am open to doing that so if I get something wrong I'm gonna fix it alright thanks so much