hey this is dr amanda with straight smile solutions street smile solutions.com and today
i want to go over another one of these questions that i get all the time if i had to come up with
like top 10 questions i get when i talk to doctors or labs or anyone um the question is which aligner
trim line is the best and so i'm going to go over it once again it's in i haven't directly made a
video just like this but it's been alluded to in many different videos so on the left we've
got regular straight line trim okay obviously clearcorrect is one major one that does it
what else many other independent labs do it some of the white label manufacturing partners do it
um definitely some of the more how do i say this diplomatically um consumer facing companies i'm
just gonna say that because i'm not allowed to say acronyms so um do that what's the reason for that
it's easy you don't have to have a fancy expensive trimmer to do it
anyone can do it you can have anyone in a third world country with some scissors cutting it out
or it's easy because you don't have to have a fancy trimmer it's just a quick heat knife
pop it out lastly the other benefit in terms of treatment outcomes is that you don't have
to use attachments in many circumstances because it gets its retention from grabbing onto the gums
not just the teeth so companies that want to have less or no in-person visits i'm gonna use
straight trim line nothing wrong with it a lot of things i like about it i like it
for phase one cases i think it's fantastic um it was my personal tray of choice when i do phase one
cases that way i don't have to put attachments on little kids what a pain who wants to do that
not me you know parents don't want to do that either so that is my trim line of choice for
phase 1 cases it's also my trim line of choice for cases that aren't periodontal patients
patients that maybe have a higher smile line and are concerned about aesthetics of attachments
definitely an option nothing wrong with it better to use a more rigid material like xender a and
some other ones but in any case okay next one well let's go to the right okay we did straight let's
do full scallop so obviously we all know what company is this hmm i'm not allowed to mention it
because i'll get a letter from some attorneys if i do so you know who i'm talking about so anyways
this is their very full scallop trim line it's very beautiful there's nothing wrong with it and
it's actually very complicated to do it's probably the most expensive um but the bad part about it
is that you have to do a ton of attachments for retention so even in pita cases but you know it's
very nice it's complicated it's um comfortable it's very good for the gums i mean because you can
always brush your gums there's nothing going over the gums or anything like that so in terms of like
self-cleanliness and like hygiene it's definitely best so i'll give you that the full scalloped but
i believe there is a company that has the patent on that so other people can't do this trim line
at the moment nor do they really want to anyways so um so that leaves us with semi-scalloped which
is what everything else in between so most of the new companies that you've seen emerge post
2017 are all pretty much semi-scaled because they realize they can have the best of both worlds
you know with the semi scalloped so somebody scalped is still going to be scalloped but it's
not going to be below the gum line it's going to be maybe a millimeter above the gum line so
you get aesthetics you know you don't have to have so many attachments it still looks pretty
like sleek and snazzy and you don't have all those discomfort issues with fit that can come from this
one over here so anyways that's pretty much it so you know i think they're all got their place
um there's no one i mean obviously if you're creating a company you probably would want to
go with this because you really can't go with this and i don't know unless i was just a phase
one only or a direct oh i can't say that consumer facing company i would probably go with that but
if i wasn't and i was going to be working with actual doctors in actual visits um you know et
cetera et cetera then this is and you know i had a real manufacturing partner that was professional
this is who i would go with but if you're gonna you can't do this in-house this is you're gonna
have to have some pretty expensive equipment in order to do this so most of the stuff you see
in house is going to be or small ventures is going to be over here anyways all right thanks so much