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today we're going to talk about reveal liners so reveal aligners are the 3m unitec aligners i think
they used to be called slk or sl something aligners they've been rebranded to reveal
and i've just started to see my first cases of these aligners and there's some good stuff and
there's some bad stuff so i just wanted to do a quick review um let's do the good stuff first so
i personally have not treated a case because it's a relatively new product and i'm not really
doing that much stuff right now and it's not something i'm really interested in using but
i have a few doctors that are using it and these reviews are actually from them so positives um
trim line is higher you can look at us at a positive or a negative
but material is thicker so it does not need so much attachment so many attachments
so when you look at their setups there might only be like three or four attachments per
arch as opposed to 10 to 15 like in invisalign or eight to ten um so it's a lot fewer attachments
um of course the benefit of that is the time and if you have one of those patients that is really
anti-attachment you can get away with fewer and possibly even none if it's a case that doesn't
need extrusions and um i don't know the details on i i am told and i again i tried to contact the
you know the team that runs reveal and of course i get no response so they're not very friendly
but i did try um my understanding is that there's unlimited revisions and refinements
and there's no limit to what they can do they do have
slots they do have anterior bite turbos so they have they call these slits slits and cutouts so
everyone has their own right you know instead of precision cuts they call them slits and cutouts
they do do ipr you can virtually extract you can do attachments they're yeah okay so that was the
positive that's all i have for positive sorry um price point i believe they have some type of
trap you from i call it trap you promo where they try to trap you into using their product
um so they right now i think they're offering them at 1100 1200 as opposed to 1800 1880 or something
like invisalign does so it's an equivocal product i don't know how long you get for the revisions or
finance i don't know if it's two years three years or five years that i don't have the answer to so
if somebody has the answer to that feel free to put it in the comments section because that
part i can't i can't figure out so similar product but better if you are looking for less attachments
is what it comes down to and it's supposedly clearer it supposedly looks less noticeable i mean
invisalign i can spot a mile away on somebody's teeth so you know a little more discreet okay
so that was the positive kind of um negative is their portal is awful i just can't stand it it is
a hundred times worse than even clear correct even my white label portal is better better
than this it's just terrible it's so hard to use it is totally i mean i'm sure once you figure it
out it's easier one thing i don't like is that you cannot like spin the little mouth
you know the little set up around to look at all different angles you have to look at their
pre-programmed angles which is similar to how clearcorrect was many many many years ago right
front right left back back is helpful upper lower that's the six views you get that's all you get so
that's a problem um because sometimes i want to look at something at a special angle and i
can't see it like one of my favorite angles is when i tip the front head
back a little bit and i just look you know at how tight the bite is yes you can spin around
look from the back but it's not the same thing so i hate that i also don't like that they don't have
an occlusion feature they have something called collisions which is right here but collisions
is weird it's like the contacts and the occlusion and they don't have it in two different colors so
i can't tell what's what and i can't tell if it's articulated correctly or if the finish is
good so that is frustrating to me that's a huge negative to me they do of course like i said they
have anterior by turbos which is good they can do distillation they can do you know precision cuts
so that's good um and they also don't explain when the ipr is staged i'm assuming it's all staged at
zero but they don't make that clear when i look at the stuff but and also it's crazy weird to
do a modification you have to go into the notes section you have to leave your notes and then
you have to submit it but sometimes the submit button isn't there and i can't figure it out
so anyways but that's reveal aligners that's all i can tell you on it i don't love it so far but
relatively decent reviews from doctors although nobody has finished the cakes so i won't believe
it once it's finished and i can give you more of a heads up on how it's going for sure i would
imagine with the thickness of things it wouldn't be so great in the trim for perio patients
forces are probably higher it's probably more uncomfortable just a thought all right thanks