03.18.08

Tray One

Posted in Uncategorized at 10:28 pm by admin

I expected some pain, a dull ache – maybe the need for a pain relief tablet or two. What I discovered was, although initially the trays are extremely hard to insert and remove, there is very little pain at all. I had to check out a mirror to see whether they could be seen. You can’t even tell I’m wearing them! Well, you can’t tell until I try and speak and sound like I have some plastic stuck in my mouth, I’ll need to work on this.

I’m warned I MUST wear them constantly or delay the success to my teeth adjustment. I can go back a step if my teeth fail to move into the next tray. However this only delays your end result and quite frankly 1 year and 3 months of constant brushing (plus no snacking) sounds perfectly long enough to me!

I didn’t sleep too well for about two days, but I am not entirely sure whether it was my impending job interview (which I took the trays out for – just in case my vague lisping made me even MORE anxious) or the trays. Before long I slept well, barely noticed the trays and really only felt my teeth ache vaguely when I removed them for eating (which was now drastically less frequent due to my general disinterest at brushing constantly). Snacking is now a thing of the past or unless I am violently hungry and cannot wait another minute. Perhaps somebody should market these to dieters?

I am finding I use my bite less, my front teeth which are the most crooked and twisted feel tender somehow. I’m not sure I’d want to bite down hard on anything in the near future but maybe it’s something I will get used to. Going away for weekends and vacations can be a small pain. I find you can cheat and chew gum between meals where brushing is simply not an option and rinse the trays thoroughly with water, and clean properly in the evening works fine. On the plus side if you grind your teeth at night these trays actually help you. No more worn down molars.

After ten days I don’t think I’m lisping as much and I’m curious to see what my next tray will be like, also I’m advised I’ll need some colourless fixtures ‘stuck’ to my actual teeth to help twist the stubborn, deformed teeth round on later trays. Maybe I have been given an ‘easy’ tray to get started with… So far I’m very impressed, the trays themselves are really amazing pieces of plastic! I can’t currently tell if I have lost weight from my running training or the Invisalign trays. Maybe it’s a combination of the two??

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