hi guys welcome to our channel we asked you guys what questions you
had about invisalign and we got a lot of responses so today i got the amazing
doctor nicola gore with us here today to answer all the questions for you
so the first question we had was how does it work invisalign is a series of clear aligners
they're worn a minimum 22 hours a day the material is actually a smart track material
as engineered in such a way that it moves the teeth with precision and predictability it is
a flexible material and it's clear so it doesn't show normally patients get between 14 to 26 weeks
of aligners and depending on what system is suited for the patient their liners are changed one uh
a week or once every two weeks the next one is a common one that we got we had quite a few people
asking this does it hurt so um again another good question the first day when you change your
aligner it could hurt because obviously it might be a bit tighter and you might experience a little
bit of discomfort but by day two of your aligner time then you should find more comfort in it so
you'll soon adapt and the pain will go away you can take painkillers like paracetamol or neurofem
and that should help so the next question is how long do i have to wear them for minimum 22 hours
a day you have to remember if you did have fixed braces they'll be on your teeth all the time so
they'll be moving your teeth all the time so invisalign is actually doing the same thing
but if you don't wear them minimum 22 hours a day you're not going to see any results
and when would you take them out only to eat and to clean your teeth and that's it
so the next question we have is how often do i need to come to the dentist to have them checked
okay so um depending on what type of invisalign um are you going to use um every four to
eight weeks would be the common uh gap between coming to the dentist and having your teeth
checked having the attachments checked for the invisalign and having your oral hygiene checked
and be given new aligners to take home okay so the next question what are the differences
between invisalign and normal braces okay and that's a very good question so normal braces are
fixed to your teeth and an orthodontist would do that for you invisalign are clear aligners
which are not actually fixed to your teeth and they're removable so you can remove
them to eat and you clean your teeth so they're two different ways of moving teeth
so we had a lot of people ask this one and everyone wants to know how much does it cost
again a very good question as you know prices vary from area to area from practice to practice
in my practice i have made a nice comprehensive package for my patients um so that i include
all the retainers because it's quite important to have retainers after your treatment is finished
because otherwise your teeth will move so um i've included fixer removable retainers
as well as um teeth whitening which everybody likes to do and together with their teeth
cleaning because it's quite important to have teeth clean while you're having your invisalign
so the package itself is at the moment 3500 and and i'm happy to throw in more whitening gel
for anybody who would like to come and uh have uh invisalign with us at tartur's dental studio
so the next question we had was can it go wrong or not work okay so again that's a really good
question um it can only go wrong if the patients don't stick to the correct protocol okay and by
that i mean invisalign is something which is totally dependent on your commitment so if you
don't wear them the the correct number of hours you need to wear them if you lose them or break
them or you don't maintain a good oral hygiene and you don't track well with your clean check video
then yes it can go wrong and you will not achieve the predictable smile that you want to achieve
so next one is what happens if i'm not happy with the results
so if you are not happy with the results and if it doesn't match the predictable clean check
video which we have made of your teeth then we can always request further aligners from invisalign
with no extra cost to you all we'll have to do is re-scan your teeth again or retake the
impressions and we can actually then uh construct further aligners for you to carry on to get to the
stage we want you to be and you want to be so another question we had was i have an implant
and a bridge can i get invisalign wow that's a really good question actually though um you
can of course you can uh the only thing is that of course an implant and a bridge will not move okay
so we'll have to take that out of our equation when we're doing your invisalign assessment so we
will be able to move your other teeth but we will not be able to move your implant or your bridge
so next question we had was are there any risks um so of course with any treatment
there is risks involved but the risks are calculated risks so by that i mean that the
dentist you will be seeing so if you came to my practice and you saw me i will be doing a
very thorough assessment on your teeth and your gums to make sure that you have no dental decay
to make sure you have no gum disease to make sure there's no real too much recession on your teeth
and the reason i will be doing that is that because if you've got poor oral hygiene to
start off with and you've got gum disease then the risk would be that you will maybe get very mobile
teeth and your teeth might get loose because the process of moving teeth is to resorb the bone
and if your teeth are already at risk of having gum problems then this is just going to multiply
so next one is how old do i have to be to get invisalign okay so um invisalign has different
types of system so we've got invisalign light invisalign teen invisalign go invisalign go plus
and invisalign comprehensive so any teenager could have invisalign
however we find that with teenagers is a little bit difficult because the commitment is a bit
more difficult it's a bit more challenging to get them to keep them with the line on to to not to
lose them not to put them in their sports skills and throw them away so um i have treated a few uh
teenagers with invisalign but both me and the parents found it quite challenging in terms of
keeping up with wearing them yeah so if you guys are up for it then maybe consider it but
yeah if you're not then just wait till you're a bit older or fixed races yeah yeah so another
question we had was how do i know if i can have invisalign okay so invisalign is suited better for
people who've got mild to moderate crowding so if you've got mild to moderate crowding and your
teeth are not overcrowded and over complicated then of course you'll be suitable your dentist
will actually do a quick assessment of your teeth of your gums the oral hygiene take some photos i
will be able to tell you whether you are suitable or not and once they're suitable what happens next
so after that the dentist will have to take a series of x-rays of your teeth
and records of your teeth in terms of taking impressions of your teeth or scans of the teeth
and we will then submit that to invisalign invisalign will make you a clean check video
on the video it will show you your predictable smile and how your invisalign journey would be
and i guess that's what motivates most patients exactly and then once you've seen your invisalign
journey and you see how long it takes and what the outcome is uh you usually will commit to
it because it actually most of the time comes out really nice if you made it this far in the
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