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Ok here's a photo of my elastic. Don't know how clear it is but there's a bit cut out of the aligners to fit the hooks in

The hooks were digging into my gum for the first couple of days too but they're ok now. The main problem I'm finding is that I've had bad jaw pain & headaches since I got the elastic. Not sure if this is the cause of it but it seems a bit of a coincidence that the pain started the day after gett...

Yeah, my elastics are incorporated with Invisalign treatment. There's a hole cut out of the canine in my upper tray and second last tooth on the bottom tray. I have a tooth coloured attachment on the upper tooth and a small metal hook on the lower one. The tooth coloured one is kind of like regular ...

Went back in on Monday & my ortho replaced the back tooth coloured hook with a metal one. Sounds like what you have Tizzy. It's much better now, doesn't pop off anymore which is great

I have elastics to pull my teeth back. It wasn't part of the original plan but my top teeth started going off track & moving forward so I got an elastic band fitted on one side to try to pull them back again. It's not my front teeth that are being pulled back though - it's my premolars and molar...

It's pretty frustrating alright. The dental wax stopped working too so I'm going back into the ortho tomorrow & hopefully he'll glue on a bigger hook. I've stopped wearing the elastic cos it was driving me crazy having it pop off constantly. Even when I wasn't moving my mouth at all it was still...

Hi Tizzy. I have actual hooks - both tooth coloured ones. I think the back one is too small though cos that's the one it keeps popping off. Anyway I tried sticking some dental wax over it last night to keep it in place & it seems to be working.

Do you know how long you have to wear the elastics?

Was at the ortho today for a checkup (just started aligner 10) and he wasn't happy with how my treatment's progressing. My overbite has gotten worse, my top teeth are moving forward instead of back. So he cut two holes in my aligners, one on the top & one on the bottom & attached buttons &am...

I have 7 attachments which I got after finishing my first set of aligners. When I first got the attachments on it took a day or two to get used to them. The aligners are harder to get off at first and I kept worrying I was gonna rip the attachments off with the aligner. But after a couple of days it...

Thanks for the advice Wireless & Mcawful. I have my next ortho appointment in a couple of weeks so I'll say it to him then.

Hi I currently have Invisalign braces. Just wondering if people generally need to keep going to their orthos for long after finishing braces? Is it just a case of getting you retainers and then you're finished with appointments? Or do people usually have to keep going back for a while to make sure t...

Hi I'm currently on aligner 7 out of 26U/14L. So I should be finished in about 9 months' time. I've now decided that I'm going to be leaving the country next year and I'll be gone for a full year. I'm hoping to go about 3-4 months after my expected treatment time finishes. Thing is I know that there...