Diastema switching?
Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 12:22 pm
Hi all!
So a bit of a low down on me since I haven't really posted here. I have a decently sized diastema which is the main reason I am getting invisalign. That and they are pushing my two front teeth up as they are quite large. I seriously have rabbit teeth. Ha ha ha. I DO have an overbite which I realize won't be fixed, but I can live with that. Uh whatelse. I am getting my impressions at the beginning of January which is why I had my teeth cleaned today.
So, I went for my regular cleaning in my hometown and told my dentist and hygenist how I was getting invisalign and they worried me a bit(I am getting my orthodontic work done where I currently live, in a city)
They mentioned to make sure that my ortho will give me a frenectomy(I already knew that I will need it, not a big deal) but they both seemed very skepticle of invisalign becuase of the high case of bites being ruined/further ruined. I will take my chances with that, but they also mentioned that invisalign just shifts gaps. Since mine is between my first two insicors they said I could later just have a space between my last two molars or something and will be prone to cavities because it will be more likely to fill up with food. I was under the impression that invisalign shifted ALL the teeth together. I mean, I have read blogs of people with diastemas, close to the same size as mine even and I have never heard any of them talk about having gaps in their other teeth when they have completed their treatment. Have you guys heard of this, or was this just a big scare tactic my lifelong dentist used on me?
So a bit of a low down on me since I haven't really posted here. I have a decently sized diastema which is the main reason I am getting invisalign. That and they are pushing my two front teeth up as they are quite large. I seriously have rabbit teeth. Ha ha ha. I DO have an overbite which I realize won't be fixed, but I can live with that. Uh whatelse. I am getting my impressions at the beginning of January which is why I had my teeth cleaned today.
So, I went for my regular cleaning in my hometown and told my dentist and hygenist how I was getting invisalign and they worried me a bit(I am getting my orthodontic work done where I currently live, in a city)
They mentioned to make sure that my ortho will give me a frenectomy(I already knew that I will need it, not a big deal) but they both seemed very skepticle of invisalign becuase of the high case of bites being ruined/further ruined. I will take my chances with that, but they also mentioned that invisalign just shifts gaps. Since mine is between my first two insicors they said I could later just have a space between my last two molars or something and will be prone to cavities because it will be more likely to fill up with food. I was under the impression that invisalign shifted ALL the teeth together. I mean, I have read blogs of people with diastemas, close to the same size as mine even and I have never heard any of them talk about having gaps in their other teeth when they have completed their treatment. Have you guys heard of this, or was this just a big scare tactic my lifelong dentist used on me?
