Tray 10 - Day 3

Not much new to report. Changed into Tray 10 on Friday June 23. Woke up Saturday morning and could fell that my front top teeth were a bit tender. When I went to take off my trays for breakfast I noticed that my upper front teeth actually were starting to sit over my bottom front teeth; so this was definite progress!

Ive' attached pictures from my ClinCheck that show were I started at and then approximately where I am with Tray 10.

Tray 9 - Day 3

Changed into Tray 9 on Friday June 16th just before bed. Woke up Saturday morning and could tell it was definitely moving my lower eye teeth; didn't really seem to notice any soreness or issues with my top teeth so I thought it may not be moving any of those this week.

But then on Sunday I realized that without the trays in I could actually touch my front teeth together now...this was definitely a development. So maybe it did move my upper front teeth but I just didn't feel it.

I'll take it either way! This process is amazing to me, it seems so much quicker and less intrusive than braces and I recommend it to anyone that is looking or thinking of braces.

Wooohooo Tray 8; Day 2

Had my Orthodontist appointment on Saturday June 10th. It went so well. Dr. Barb was so happy at my progress! She said she might even make me her Invisalign case for this year (too bad that doesn't save me any money lol).

She moved me up to switching out my trays to every week now. So I was able to change into Tray 8 on Saturday night just before I went to bed and she gave me from Tray 8-17....and my next appointment is on August 11th and I won't have gotten to tray 17 until that night. But I'll be going in to get my scans for refinements. That's so fast!! If we would have continued switching them every two weeks I would be into Tray 17 at the end of December. Which I was fully prepared for....

Now there is a bigger gleam of light at the end of the tunnel. Now from other blogs I've come across and read the refinements sometimes can take just as long as the active trays. But if it means my teeth are as perfect as my teeth can be at the end of this I will be happy.

My OMT is going well also, but she wants my tongue to do something that I don't think it will do no matter the exercises that I do, but only time will tell.

Tray 7 - Day 3

Tray 7 of 17 active trays! It's crazy the difference I can notice so far. My top teeth are coming back in nicely, the gaps between them are closing and my overbite is almost gone.

These things are like little miracle workers! I switched to tray 7 on Friday night before bed, so of course as per usual Saturday and Sunday there were certain teeth sore; this time I noticed in my top front few teeth and on my right upper teeth. So of course for a the first 2-3 days certain things are a bit harder to eat; but nothing that can't be handled.

I'm excited for my appointment on Saturday, I haven't seen them in person in 2 months that's enough  trays to make a big difference. And with Jane we've only been Skype chatting so she has a rough idea what my teeth are looking like but seeing in person is a lot better.

I'm wondering if they will switch me to switching out my trays to every 1 week now instead of every 2; as she had wanted to last time, bit it was going to be too long until my next visit....

By the way I love snapchat!!

Catch up post

Wow I'm behind!!

So I changed into Tray 5 on Saturday May 6 and this one really moved my teeth! The whole upper right side felt like they moved no this one. Also this one gave me a slight issue with the bottom where it snapped into place on my bottom teeth, but didn't want to seed all the way down no matter what I did. I thought this problem would carry over to Tray 6 but luckily it did not.

I changed into Tray 6 on Friday May 19, this one really moved my upper front 4 teeth. I could feel that this one was really pulling them down and in bringing them more in line.

I'm still doing my OMT exercises and I wear my MYObrace on the weekends only usually. Jane has told me that at my next appointment she'll be bringing something different than the MYObrace that is a bit smaller and easier to sleep with.

I change into Tray 7 this Friday June 2 and my next appointment with my Orthodontist is on Saturday June 10 and I'm looking forward to seeing her and Jane.

Typical Day with Invisalign

So I thought I would post what a typical day with Invisalign is like; and I say typical meaning Monday-Friday as those are the days I work.

7:30am-8am - Wake up (after wearing Invisalign all night)

8:05am - Take trays out and soak them with Polident

8:06am - Eat Breakfast

8:20am - Brush and floss teeth; take trays out of Polident and brush and put them back in (Amount of time trays out for: 14 minutes)

8:25am - Get dressed and ready for work and get son up and ready for school (if he's not already up). Also do my OMT exercises

8:45am-8:50am - Drive to work

9am-12pm - At work, no snacks or beverages (trays stay in!)

12pm-12:10pm - Drive home for lunch

12:20pm - Take trays out in order to eat lunch

12:40pm - Brush teeth and trays and put trays back in. Also do my OMT excersies (Amount of time trays out for: 34 minutes total)

12:50pm-12:55 pm - Drive back to work

1pm-5pm - At work, no snacks or beverages (trays stay in!)

5pm - Drive home from work

5:15pm - Prepare dinner

5:35 - Take trays out to eat dinner

6pm - Brush teeth and reinsert trays. Also do my OMT exercises (Amount of time trays out for: 59 minutes total)

That is my typical day, I'd say all in all not too shabby!! Total time trays are usually out for is about an hour. Now mind you some days I will choose to snack on something in the evening, but if I do my trays are not out longer than an additional 20-30 minutes.

Also I wanted to note that during the Winter months (October-April) I play indoor volleyball and I play with my trays in and so far that has not been an issue. And during the Summer months (May-August) I play softball and I'll be interested ot see how things go, but again I can't see the trays being an issue.

You may wonder why I mentioned this at all, and the simple fact is that during my volleyball season while I was still wearing my expander I had tried to play volleyball with it in and of course I got hit in the face and it ended up hurting my teeth/jaw because of the expander being in. So once I learned that I ended up just taking my expander out to play volleyball as it made things much easier.

Also here is a photo from this past weekend, you can't even notice he Invisalign. Although I am not full smiling though either.

That's all for now, I switch into Tray 5 this Friday night so I will update again either during or after the weekend.

Tray 4

So I switched to tray 4 on Friday April 21st at night. It went well, it probably bugged me less than tray 3 did just because I'm used to the attachments now and know how to take the trays out with the attachments. I don't need a mirror anymore to take the trays out, although I prefer doing it with one if there is one available. I also didn't need any sort of painkillers for this tray, which is a big step I think!

So far the only night I have been able to sleep with my MYObrace in for the whole night has been Saturday April 22 as I didn't have anything pressing to wake up for on Sunday. The OMT is going well I find. I did miss some exercises on Saturday and Sunday because I wasn't at home enough to do the ones that you have to do three times a day and use devices so unless you have the forethought to bring those with you...they don't get done three times and only get done twice. Hopefully I'll have done well enough that I can move on to the next set of exercises on Wednesday when Jane and I chat again.

I figure maybe I'll take photos of my fifth tray compared to my first tray then it might be a bit easier to see the differences between them as you don't really see it from on to the next although you know they are moving your teeth