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Hi all. I had invisalign for a little over a year about two years ago, and while they closed the gaps in my teeth, and made some impprovements, I would not say I have straight teeth.

here are my problems:
Midline is off
many of my teeth are too short (need extrusion)- this would be the kanines and the ones between the kanines and the incisors
and one of my teeth is turned slightly inward (the kanine actually)

should I go with another invisalign revision? or should I do the linguals this time? I feel like my old ortho did not do enough with the invisalign, as he never even tried elastics, or to shift the midline, when there was space due to my gaps. And my teeth move quite nicely, as we both realized during my invisalign treatment.

What do u guys think? I know this isn't an expert opion, but I'm just curious, because I want to start treatment again with in the next couple of months.

Invisalign would def be my first choice as I did it before and they were very comfortable to wear, but worse case scenario, I am willing to go for the linguals.

hi Lily, for once I read a topic that i have first hand experience of, and while I have only had linguals for 2 weeks I have had 2 attempts at invislign! My honest answer, with the benefit of hind sight, is that I would have opted for lingual 100% of the time.
I can't think of putting another plastic tray into my mouth ever again. This forum is full of fear with concerns of speech & eating, however, from my end neither have been any issue what so ever. Lingual are truly invisable still my wife is the only person that knows I have braces, they are very comforable - but do cost a little more.
Had I made the right choice from the start they would have been cheap! Inisalign has far more limitations and as such is cheaper and less good (from my experience only)

My two cents:

I got Invisaligns a few years ago after getting braces as an adult 15 or so years ago. To keep it short, one lateral wants to rotate inward and simply wouldn't respond to the treatment even after three years of refinements. (Yes, three years.) My ortho, who I trust completely and who is the best in town, tried buttons and elastics to get it to turn, but with only very limited success.

Finally, he said we can keep trying Invisaligns, or you can get it bonded, or I can put braces on you and fix this once and for all. In addition to finally getting the rotated tooth right, he said the braces would also allow him to pull down my incisors, which, like yours, don't quite meet my lowers.

I chose linguals and have been in them for five days now. Quite honestly, although they have been tearing my tongue up, my only regret is that I didn't do it sooner. I went into this for health reasons and not for picture-perfect teeth, but still, it just would've rubbed me wrong for the situation to still not be right after all these years of time and effort. With the Invisaligns, if I didn't wear the device for even a night or two, I could feel that tooth rotating inward, and I was afraid I'd have to address the problem down the road anyway.

My recommendation for everyone is to suck it up and get real braces. I didn't really have a complaint with the Invisalign process itself, and maybe I wasn't a great candidate in hindsight because I happened to be one of those people who, as my ortho says, have unusually resilient connective tissue that retains its "memory". But braces allow the ortho to make practically any change he wants to in the minimum possible time. And he said the few times he hasn't been happy with the Invisaligns have been in just my case: rotated teeth and recessed teeth.

Yes, the braces hurt at first, but as with most things in life, it's better to put up with some short term pain for maximal longer term gain.

Again, just my two cents.