hey it's dr amanda with straight smile solutions street smile solutions.com and
today we're going to talk about why i get frustrated with clearcorrect and what to do
if you have a clear correct case and you get that dreaded posterior open bite
so let's talk about just a quick i have tons of videos on clearcorrect by the way and the
differences between clearcorrect and invisalign if you want to see them you can just go in my
channel and i have all the playlists there you can just go to aligners or invisalign they're there
but just a quick recap so clearcorrect is a brand of a liner that has been around since 2006.
uh right now it's owned by a company called strauman which is known a great implant company um
i kind of was really excited when they bought it a few years ago i thought they'd make some major
changes so far the only changes that they've really made has been on the educational front
which is to me it's like once you improve the product first and then improve the education
but okay um the portal it is much better um it's still freaking slow though it's awful you sit
there and wait it spans it spins it's certainly no not even close to invisaligns portal but you
know portals are expensive i've been involved in making them before they're a lot of work so i
mean it does take a lot of r d m money to make that so it is better but it's still terrible
um of course one thing they really didn't do is improve the product yeah they changed the
liner material they went and they bought um baby materials which is in a thermoplastic company
based in goodness fremont yeah fremont milpitas anyways it's where i'm from so one of those one
of those cities in the east bay um i've been there i've done some cool videos there before
strahman bought it um and so they did switch the thermoplastic material to a better material than
they were using before which was zender a i think it's zandera flx they don't say it is but from
what i can tell by touching feeling it and just my process of elimination because i've been there
in uh you know being materials and i know what their options are i mean they only had two
types of thermoplastic materials and i was there right so um basically it's the same thermoplastic
material that i use with the white label companies that i work with so it's like okay i can get the
exact same product but i can get a better product for cheaper so why would i use clearcorrect but
anyways um so that's that one of my biggest beefs with them is that it's so easy for them to add
anterior bite turbos it is a critical piece to the aligner outcomes that if you don't have it you're
gonna have terrible outcomes and crazy things are going to happen and when the crazy things happen
you can't fix them and every single week i mean i want to thank strahman and clearcorrect because
because of them i get a ton of business so thanks for paying my mortgage i appreciate it
um that's one of the main reason ways i get customers is because they're so fed up with
clear correct they come to me for help and to switch to other aligner companies so thank
you or they get so stuck on clearcorrect and they can't fix it they need me to help undo
it most of the time i tell them i can't do it in clearcorrect once it gets to be a hot mess
i probably see multiple cases a week that are hot clear correct messes so and it's not the doctor's
fault to be honest it's it's the product so and it's the treatment planning and i'm just telling
you my own opinion i think it's terrible so um in any case that's my beef with clear cracks so
posterior open bites are going to happen why well because they're more rampant than they ever were
because our patients are so stressed out right now that they're clenching on their plastic they're
clenching on their plastic at night not much we can do about that you can do master botox that
makes it go away it's really really helpful but it's expensive i get it myself i probably spent oh
easily six hundred dollars just for the masseters not for any other botox on your face twice a year
so that's twelve hundred dollars a year the average american can't afford that you know so
for me it's all about i'm not in the liners it's about discomfort and pain and headaches
and everything like that um you know protecting my teeth that's why i do it but it is really really
great so i mean to be honest that is the if you have to stand clear correct and you want to fix
your posterior open bite i would have your patient get massive or like heavy masseter
botox to finish up the case and then you're going to add attachments to the back teeth
and and close the bite however you can prevent it in the future by using anterior bite turbos
so that is the magic so anyways hopefully this was helpful all right thanks