Help needed ASAP- thank you
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:30 pm
I just searched the internet because I am having a problem and really hope a dentist can advise, as I do not have access to an ortho for over a month, as I live in a northern canadian town. I am on tray 15 of 21, with no problems until yesterday when I was changing from 14 to 15. My aligner won't fit on to all of my attachments at the same time. I can get it to fit on my 4 front teeth, but not on the one attachment on my left side. (My teeth go- aligner, tooth, aligner, aligner, aligner, aligner. Put this way, it is my first aligner that won't fit.) However, it does fit if I put that on first, but then the other attachments won't fit. When this happened yesterday, I thought maybe I should try to wear my last tray for a day longer in case I didn't wear it enough or something. That didn't work as I am having the same problem. So, right now, I have my new tray in, where the front attachments are all fitting nice and the invisalign is up against my teeth nice, everywhere except on that first left aligner. The rest of my teeth do not have that normal pressure you feel when you first put a new aligner, however, there is a bit of tenderness on that one tooth that isn't fitting properly. Should I just try to keep this tray in and see if it fits better after a few days, or should I go back to my last tray? My problem is that I live in a small Canadian Northern Town where the ortho only comes up ever 1.5 months and my next appointment is in a month. So, my BIG fear is that I will keep this ill-fitting tray in for the two weeks, and then try to go on to my next tray, but it won't fit at all due to my teeth aligning incorrectly. My fear is that I then won't be able to go back to tray 14 to maintain the alignment, as I will have screwed up my teeth formation over the two week period of wearing the ill-fitted 15 tray. Should I just keep my tray 14 in for another month until I see my ortho? I really don't want to set my treatment back a month, but even more so, I don't want to undo the work already done! Please help. I am quite concerned with no option of seeing an ortho for a month. Thank you for any help.
