amanda with straight smile solutions straight smile solutions.com and i probably get this
question at least once a day from one of our straight smile solutions clients and that is
are all those attachments on my invisalign case really necessary can i take some of them
off and i go whoa pump the brakes um let's talk about the why why they're there first before you
start selectively eliminating them which i don't necessarily agree with so i'm not gonna reinvent
the wheel because i literally have so much content already on different types of invisalign
attachments why we have them um why they're there why other companies don't have as many et cetera
et cetera which ones are better which ones are better for certain situations so i'm not gonna
reinvent the wheel what you need to do is you go in and watch all my videos on attachments and trim
line because trim line directly correlates with why behind the attachments so basically all that
is parked in the invisalign playlist as well as like 200 other videos so if you want to watch
those you can just go to my youtube channel to get there go to your youtube channel put in the big
search bar straight smile solutions that'll take you to my youtube channel which has a green banner
from there if you scroll down on that homepage you're going to see a playlist that just says
invisalign lots of content there watch it all it'll take you months and years to watch
um or if you want to search specifically for a keyword like attachments or trim you can go to
that little magnifying glass once you're within my channel if you do within your channel you're going
to get all random videos and look up the word like attachments or trim and watch those videos first
okay so remember high level overview why does invisalign have attachments well invisalign has
attachments because they're handles that helps to move teeth yes there is a billion dollar more
than billion dollar direct to consumer industry for aligners that has zero attachments yes but
those are different types of cases simpler cases if you want ideal as well as they have a much
thicker plastic and a much higher trim line which is a lot less comfortable a lot less efficient
um potentially higher forces which can put i'm saying potentially because i don't want any of
these companies to come after me there's very little research that says it is higher forces now
just from my experience dealing with the liners for over 20 years and i probably i can comfortably
say i may have seen more aligner cases than any orthodontist possibly in the whole us if not the
whole world and i can confidently say that because i've been doing virtual support for so long and
also working for aligner companies i just i see so many cases per day that no orthodontist that
has a practice could ever see so my eyes are able to see a case and be like yeah this is possible no
this is not this is the problem so what i have never noticed and you guys i've never worked
for a line technology i have never gotten a dime from them they don't they're not even nice to me
i'd love not to be nice to them but they really actually have a very good product and you know for
a while if you if you if you listen to my videos five six seven years ago i have some content up
you know or blogs it was more blogs back then i certainly was a lot more bearish on online
technology um but i've become a lot more bullish on them just because now that i really see cases
finishing and and i can compare and contrast a lot of different variables it's just a superior
product to a lot a lot of other ones out there for a more difficult case okay for an easy case you're
going to get the same outcome as long as you know what you're doing no matter what so but remember
line technology is a much softer plastic it's very comfortable and i can tell you i have a daughter
who's had both clear clearcorrect and aligned technology and hands down she's like i would never
do clearcorrect again the only thing she liked about clearcorrect is we had no attachments on
her case so that was kind of nice um but comfort wise um for the trim line just for the ease of the
you know and we really slowed down our plan too so it wasn't about movements it was really just
about the plastic and the trim she was like hands down the line type you know invisalign's way way
way more comfortable now like i told you i've seen tens of thousands of cases and i've never
ever ever seen a case of root resorption with without trauma or any other strange independent
variable from an invisalign case i'm not saying it doesn't exist but i've never seen one
yeah i've seen one where maybe they had braces but not just only invisalign they've never had
braces they've never had trauma they didn't have traumatic occlusion or anything like that never
seen it so um have i seen it with clearcorrect yep so and many other aligner companies that i'm
not gonna name them all because some of them like to come after me when i talk about them
so yeah i mean that tells you something so that's why it has handles why because the the plastic is
more flexible it's it's gentle and healthier for your teeth and roots and it needs a handle
you know and anyways when you put these on i mean they're pretty i mean yeah i notice it but i'm
also an orthodontist but most people don't and and if you're in photos you can always photoshop
it out it's not a big deal it's certainly a heck of a lot less noticeable than braces
it's a lot more efficient it's a lot healthier for your teeth so that's why we have attachments okay
they're there for a reason now i don't go too into the weeds there's a lot of courses out there where
they just like go crazy into the weeds about swapping out different types of attachments and
all why this attachment why that put this one on i don't why because i got better things to
do and i really don't have any problems with my invisalign cases they track so if they track i
mean listen they have a billion dollar r d budget so i'm clearly i think their software knows what
it's doing just don't override their preferences don't go put all kind of preferences in your
comments section the people i know that are having issues or the people that are overriding their
preferences just let their software do its thing that's that's really my opinion and it works fine
for me so i don't know what your problem is but um there's a few times i'll swap out some attachments
or i'll add extra attachments do i ever remove attachments nope so i don't remove them so no
the answer is no i don't think you should be taking off attachments if they say you need
them you need them and i'll add extra ones when do i add extra ones well if there's a blue or a
black dot i hover over the blue or black dot and see what it says if it says root correction torque
major tipping major rotation um extrusion yeah then i'm going to add for a nice ask
for a nice chunky attachment um if i'm doing translation like sequential distillation
yeah i need i need an attachment i'm going to ask for them if you didn't put one on i don't
know why they didn't usually they do but sometimes they don't um i hate power ridges because they're
uncomfortable and i think they're inefficient so i get attachments instead for torque so yeah i
add attachments i don't take them away so yes i think all those invisalign attachments are
really necessary and sometimes you're like well this case looks pretty hard it doesn't have very
many well sometimes some attachments are for efficient efficient movement of the teeth like
some of those complicated movements i was talking about and some of those attachments are because
the anatomy of the tooth is so that you need it for retention like if they're not bulbous or it
doesn't have a big buckle height of contour you might need attachment for retention we've all had
cases where it's popping out in the back right it's not clicking in well that's because you
didn't have an attachment there so that's why all the attachments so again i'm going to reiterate
yes all those invisalign attachments and probably more are absolutely necessary i never ever remove
attachments unless it was like a crown or a veneer or something and i just really don't want one but
i realized that i probably needed one so you know just keep that in mind all right thanks so much