hey this is Dr Amanda Dr Amanda with straight smile Solutions and today we're going to talk
about phase one aligners where can you get them when is it better to do phase one aligners than
phase one two by four braces so I'm not going to reinvent the wheel if you want to watch all
my other phase one braces videos or Phase One videos I'd love for you to watch those first to
access those you can go to my channel straight smile Solutions just put it in the search bar
of a YouTube channel straight smile Solutions once you're there it takes you to my channel which has
a green Banner if you scroll down on the home page you're going to see a playlist called towards the
top it might be one of the first called phase one interceptive treatment omt Airway it might
have all that kind of stuff it's all my kind of growth and development phase one e stuff Airway
habits that kind of stuff you should definitely click through those videos I think there's over
160 videos in there and you're going to see a lot just on phase one braces phase
one aligners things like that Invisalign first so yeah phase one aligners are nothing new I
mean I've been doing them for well over 10 to 15 years before they were even a thing
for me it was like this is a no-brainer I hate doing braces in eight year olds I don't mind doing
functional Appliance eight and nine-year-olds but braces a lot of times there's a lot of drama you
know and there's a lot of breakage and I just find braces are easier on older kids you know
for the most part appliances are easier on younger kids so I started doing phase one aligners before
it was even a thing before Invisalign first came out I just would submit cases to Invisalign clear
correct and then later on to the company I use for white label in-house aligners outsourced in-house
aligners and if you don't know what that is please watch my videos on that you can just look
um just also go to my page scroll down to the White Label aligners playlist and learn what
that means 20 aligners in the US per aligner that you can't beat that price super awesome
aligners too and I'm happy to refer you to the company that does it it's by referral
only there's like no major website nothing like that to keep their prices low anyways
back to the phase one letter so I've been doing this for ages you can still do it I mean I have
personally only tried it with three companies obviously Invisalign first now has their own
expensive brand that they use before you can run it through Express or something like that
um you've also got clearcorrect will let you do it clearly this is one of my cases and I did
it so there is no button for it you just need to basically either do the unlimited plan or you need
to click like a flex kind of plan and just pay per aligner it really depends on how hard the case is
I mean they're going to get a little confused you may have to call them and say hey I know these are
baby teeth I don't want to move the baby teeth I'm only moving the front teeth you know obviously for
a crowd in case you need to create the space first with Arch expansion using Schwartz's or fixed
expanders upper and lower you got to create the face space first okay and then once you have the
space you can consolidate the space in the front and make those front eight teeth straight that's
the whole point of phase one treatment fixing bite and aligning front for upper top and bottom
that's what we call them two by fours right two by four two by four the permanent teeth are two
back teeth and four front teeth that's a two by four right these teeth on the side are all babies
so that's the point of that do expanders first then consolidate the space or align whatever's
left you know if fine tune it sometimes it is just cosmetic sometimes it is functional if there's
impacted canines then you have to align and consolidate the space that's part of the phase one
so do watch all my other videos on phase one to learn more um you know just go just submit it and
and if you're working with my white label company they don't care you know now they don't have all
the bells and whistles and gadgets that come with Invisalign first a lot of what comes with
Invisalign first is proprietary meaning that it has a patent and other aligner companies cannot
use it yet because the time hasn't elapsed so there's no ma and some of the features are not
there certain types of attachments that they claim are proprietary to help they have certain
attachments they use in Phase One cases I personally don't think they're necessary I
did this case with no attachments at all none why because baby teeth are bulbous so they have great
retention first of all they are short but they also are bulbous two if you're just closing spaces
usually you do not need attachments especially if the trim line is high like in clearcorrect
or reveal okay I didn't say you could do it with reveal because I haven't tried and I think their
website and their platform is terrible and it's a train wreck and I refuse to do it so um clearcrait
is way easier to use but if you have rotated laterals I would definitely put attachments on
so I would let the software decide if you need attachments or not if you want to give it a go
and if you're picking the unlimited plan you can try no attachments I mean to me if I can save that
visit on an 809 year old I would like to try you know and remember phase one is just it doesn't
have to be perfect it's just phase one so the goal is just to move something out of the way get a
good bite is the ultimate goal get a good Airway and get rid of habits all right thanks so much