Getting my Invisalign in a few weeks

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#1 Post by **Monroe Effect** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 9:24 pm

Hi! I am getting my Invisalign in a few weeks, but my ortho told me that I would need attachments on my four upper front teeth, he said they could be applied to the back of the tooth and that they would not be noticeable but I was looking around the forum and I haven't seen any cases where the attachments are on the back of the tooth... is it possible?

#2 Post by **Monroe Effect** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:26 am

Oh that is awesome! I was really hoping I wouldn't need to get attatchments because I feel it kinda defeats the purpose of having "invisible" braces, I am really anxious to get them.

#3 Post by **John37** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:26 am

I thought someone else on here mentioned they had some attachments on the back of the teeth. Seems like it would be harder because the back of the front teeth are not as smooth as the front. I will ask my dentist next week when we discuss my refinements.

#4 Post by **Monroe Effect** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 12:44 pm

thanks for the info guys! yeah I know they are not completely invisible, that is why I put the quotation marks around invisible.

#5 Post by **swedishsmile** » Mon Oct 13, 2008 2:03 am

Hi fellow thread readers,

I had 1 lingual attachment on one of my lower canines.
I needed that in order to rotate the tooth. I have also wondered why they don't put the lingual attachments by default. Atleast it worked fine for me for that tooth.