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good to hear you aren't having the speech issues. it really bugged me for a while (as you can tell from my earlier posts). The other thing that became an issue for me on day 2 or 3 was significant rubbing / tenderness in the tip of my tongue and along the inside of my cheek along the outside edge of...

Got my 3rd set of alligners yesterday - now 3 months into the AOA Pro / RWB treatment. As i've mentioned, I've gotten very comfortable with the treatment, and settled into a good routine. My speech is at about 98% (to my ear), which was my biggest complaint early on. There is a noticable amount of d...

Mark - Good to hear from you! I was beginning to think that (other than chrisd mentioning he had the RWB treatment at one point in the past) I was the only person in the world that a) is a forum-hound, and b) has a dental professional that uses RWB... My case if similar to yours in that I had braces...

Thought I'd continue to give progress updates to anyone out there that is interested in the ARMCO / AOA / Red White & Blue alternative. I'm a week into my second set of aligners now (after wearing the 1st set for exactly 6 weeks). This set of trays popped on without much issue and no need to &qu...

I've come to realize over the past week or so that my aligners actually shrink (enough to notice) when they get cold... This first occured to me last week when I left them in the car (30 degrees outside) for about 90 minutes while I had dinner in a restaurant with business colleagues... When I put t...

thanks very much for the info, chrisd. you confirmed much of what I had suspected, but hadn't been able to confirm. It does indeed look like RWB is a "lower-tech" approach. The alligners I have are almost identical to the retainers I got after I had braces in my teens. They do in fact cove...

very good info, chrisd, much appreciated... you've had them both and now your signature line says "about to be braced"??? gracious anyway - you are as close as I'm gonna come to finding an expert on RWB versus Invisalign... mind a couple questions? Was invisalign a thinner plastic than RWB...

I saw this same post on another invisalign forum, before I chose invisalign. I did some research and consultation with different ortho's and asked about all options - include RW&B. I ended up with Invisalign because all the doctors said I have a perfect case for Invisalign and they were not com...

An update after 2 weeks with trays from the new kid on the block (Ormco Red White and Blue) Much more comfortable with my decision after 2 weeks than I was after 1 day... The trays have settled in and the lisping has (mostly) subsided. Still have trouble with "dge" sounds like "dodge&...

ok - now I'm a little nervous. my dentist - who's well respected in the trade and is always going around giving talks and such - convinced me to go with "adult orthodontics" to fix some minor crowding and a situation where my upper-front teeth are banging on the lower teeth (and actually c...