hey it's dr amanda with straight smile solutions street smile solutions.com and today
we're going to do a super high level review presentation about features that i hate about
invisalign and i never use my face if they put them on my treatment plan i have them removed
because i have better ways of doing things so i'm going to show you these two features to watch out
for and if you want to try my methods do what i do and you'll find your cases turn out better so here
are the two features that i hate okay first one and if you want more information about any of this
you can go within my youtube channel if you don't know how to do that feel free to go to my website
at streetsmilesolution send me a message or email me at info straightsmilesolutions.com or connect
with me on any variety of different social media apps facebook instagram i'm not as fast with those
as i would be if you just contacted me directly it might take a few days to get a response but
we have so many videos about these different features where we go more into it you know more in
depth that you can watch more videos okay but this is the first feature that i hate and that is not
that i hate precision cuts because i like buttons see the button and this is the invisalign button
i really love the way i never even thought about this because usually buttons in ortho around
right but these are oblong but i never even thought about it bonding it in the direction
of how you want to use the elastic that's really smart so i didn't notice this until
they sent me the type or not and i was like oh that's super smart it's less it's less likely
to break or less likely to pop off if you do it that way anyways i just wanted to point that out
i don't hate that part i like buttons okay i hate these precision slots and here's why and this is
the invisalign type type it on i'm literally showing you what happens when you hook it up
and this is why i hate it is because the ultimate goal right is to have for tracking
is to have your liner seated properly like it should fit like a second skin on your teeth
so you don't want any counter voices forces trying to pop it off because then it's not engaging and
working so it's not straightening your teeth right i mean it might be helping with the bite but it's
not helping straighten the teeth the same time which is the whole goal so this slot you know this
cutout right here that you hook the elastics when you look at on hook it on the tray as opposed to
on the tooth with a button the problem is is for its basic physics right for every action there's
an equal and opposite reaction so sure great we're helping with the class 2 bite here that makes
sense but what are we not doing in doing so it's yanking the tray off the teeth and you're going
to have tracking issues so this is the default for ap correction ap means anterior posterior
or correction class 2 to class 1 movements class 3 to class 1 movements this is default
buttons and slots and if it's class 3 it's going to be the other around buttons and slots like this
so this is why i hate these so i always have them remove the slots and put a button on here instead
works so much better you're not going to have tracking issues you can use heavier elastics it
helps with the ap changes better and you won't have the issues with tracking you know you're
gonna have numerous refinements if you do it this way so anyways i just wanted to show you what i
hate the other thing i hate is power ridges these are these things right here there's one there's
two there's three i hate power ridges because for the same reason of this they are a little piece of
like a little bump of plastic that's on the inside of your tray well that's all well and good there's
two things i hate about them again one thing is anything that's inside the tray is gonna affect
the seating of the tray right it's gonna block the tray from seating correctly you're gonna have to
work so much harder to get it seated yes that helps with the torque i get the point of that
this is similar to what we use in braces we call them torquing springs i don't like those either
so there's other ways to get torque they take more aligners and they take a little more time so this
is invisaligns this is my translation at least of course they never told me this and anything
in these videos is my opinion not the opinion of the line technology so i'm just saying that these
will affect your tracking so if you have this and this suit this tooth may be often these are on
front teeth right and often front teeth especially laterals are kind of displaced and they tend to
have tracking issues so if you have one of these next door lateral that's having tracking issues
it's not going to track so because it's keeping the tray away from the tooth right for the same
reason as this so that's why i don't like power ridges so whenever i see them these little blue
lines i get rid of them and i tell them to get torque other ways either by putting an attachment
on the tooth or using more aligners so anyways two things i hate about invisalign and i never use
this and this all right and if you want to know more just dig into my youtube channel
and go to put in a keyword like power ridges or precision cuts or class 2 elastics and
there's tons more videos that come up and everything's free alright thanks so much