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I'm shocked to see that I haven't update my progress in over a year. To re-cap, starting in 2006 I had a year of treatment with my dentist using the RWB system. The original issue we were correcting for was a bite issue where 1 of my lower teeth was being impacted by an upper tooth when I bit down. ...

my understanding is that there are 2 pricing levels that Ortho's pay Invisalign... Invisalign express is anything under 10 sets of trays and includes 1 revision (I think). Full Invisalign is anything over 10 trays and includes 3 revisions. I thought that Express was like $1000 cost to the ortho and ...

thought I'd give an update after several months of not posting... my dentist did give me most of my money back and I've turned around and handed that money (and some more out of my pocket) to an ortho in my area that has done over 300 Invisalign cases, in addition to having 25 years of ortho experie...

btw - I read somewhere that Invisalign is "backed up" in terms of new patients... that it's taking longer than usual to get the aligners made. anyone here experienced that?

While I do agree, chrisd, that RWB is not at all as sophisticated as Invisalign, I do think that my experience is similar to that of some other folks that have posted on this board (that went through an invisalign treatment instead of RWB) and ended up with bite problems. I have consulted with a cou...

I met with my dentist on Thursday. He was very very good about the whole thing - says he's not concerned about the financials, that we can work that out, but that he wants to figure out how to get me fixed. He suggested that we get a 3rd opinion from a different Ortho and see if we can build a conse...

I need your opinion at the bottom of this post, but in short, here's the moral of my story: don't let a general dentist that is "dabbling" in invisalign or a similar treatment convince you that they can move teeth just as well as an Orthodontist... If you're considering treatments like Inv...

if you haven't already cut the aligners into tiny pieces, I would also encourage you to give it a couple days. I thought I had made a HUGE mistake for the 1st week or 2, but now I barely notice my aligners 90% of the time. And most importantly, nobody else has EVER noticed them without me bringing i...

haven't posted my progess in a bit, thought I'd give an update. 1 week into set 5 of 6, both top and bottom, of the Red, White and Blue treatment. All the teeth, both top and bottom, are straightened up now, and the last set of aligners will do some relatively minor fine-tuning. tooth 7 and 8 are st...

I am in the middle of a 9-month treatment with Red White and Blue. See the thread titled "new kid on the block" for more discussion. It is similar to Invisalign and Orthoclear but less high-tech and a bit cheaper. The aligners are made by hand by Orthodontists in the Ormco labs. net net - ...

wow - only 2 trays on the top and 3 on the bottom? that's nice! and on your last question, I get the impression that they certainly can make another aligner, but at a cost to you. quick update on my situation... a couple weeks ago I finished with the 3rd set of aligners and they took an updated impr...

Had my appointment with the dentist yesterday - marking 18 weeks (3 sets of aligners worn 6 weeks each). They took new impressions, as expected, and will send those off to the lab for them to create the next 3 sets. That means I will continue to wear the current set for another 3 weeks, which will b...

I soak them twice a day (when I'm showering and when I'm eating dinner). I actually prefer the RetainerBrite things - I think they can be found on a site http://www.Dentakit.com ... I also use a mixture of household bleach and water at times, but I don't think it does as good a job. I'm also pretty ...

interesting - didn't know that the RWB treatment ever used the "bumps"... I haven't had any applied yet. regarding the 6 weeks - My practitioner indicates that this approach has you wear each alligner for 6 weeks - your comment seemed to indicate that your ortho implied that you would wear...

i currently have the same issue with my RWB treatment, and have for a couple months. when I bite down w/o the trays on, my front teeth touch before my molars, so I effectively can't touch my molars together. sounds like a relatively common thing. My dentist mentioned that for some people the molars ...