What could be your first thought when you decide to straighten your teeth by receiving orthodontic treatment from an orthodontist? You will likely worry about having a mouthful of metal in your mouth with wires causing discomfort when eating, speaking, or maintaining oral hygiene.
How would you react if informed orthodontic treatments had evolved with the ancient counterparts of traditional braces, making way for Invisalign? This revolutionary therapy helps straighten your teeth without wearing a single bracket on your teeth or having an inch of wire in your mouth. You would not believe us until we said you could eat all your favorite foods and maintain good oral hygiene throughout your treatment with these braces created from dental grade BPA-free plastic that helps straighten teeth faster than traditional braces.
The thought of having straighter teeth without the complications accompanying them might make you elated to send you rushing to the Gilbert dentist to inquire about how Invisalign therapy helps improve the positioning of your teeth without enduring the challenges posed by traditional braces. However, let us end your curiosity by explaining how Invisalign helps straighten teeth without metal brackets, wires, or bands in your mouth and delivers results faster than its counterparts. Please continue reading to learn more about Invisalign and receive the treatment if you have mild to moderate orthodontic problems with your teeth.
As mentioned earlier, Invisalign is a revolutionary alternative to traditional braces that helps straighten mild to moderately affected teeth appearing crooked, gapped, with under bites, overbites, cross bites, and open bites, using a series of clear plastic aligners instead of metal brackets and wires. If you qualify for Invisalign therapy after an examination of your teeth by the dentist near you, the manufacturers send you a series of aligners for you to wear over your teeth for the duration of your treatment, depending on the complexity of your situation. The dentist suggests you wear the aligners over your teeth for at least 22 hours daily and replace them every two weeks with a new set. You receive advice to remove the aligners when eating or drinking anything but water and clean your teeth as usual.
Invisalign therapy does not restrict you from having the foods you love or maintaining excellent dental hygiene to ensure you don’t develop dental infections like tooth decay or gum disease because of the removable feature that allows you to remove the aligners to nourish yourself and maintain proper oral hygiene.
Invisalign clarifies at the start of your treatment that you can eat the foods you love as long as you remove the aligners on your teeth when having them. Therefore you are under no restrictions to have foods, including ice cream, without the aligners over your teeth. However, you must refrain from having sugary treats like ice cream with the aligners in your mouth because they can cause bacterial buildup resulting in cavities, lousy breath, discolored aligners, gum disease, etc.
Eating foods with Invisalign aligners, especially the crunchy and hard variety, besides the chewy foods, is prohibited. However, it is a minor price to pay for making significant changes to your teeth to make them appear beautiful and straight to complement your smile. If you must have ice cream, you must complete the task in the two hours you have two eat any foods, clean your teeth and floss them, and clean the aligners before replacing them over your teeth to continue your treatment.
When you start Invisalign therapy, you may feel the treatment is more expensive than traditional orthodontics. However, you will realize the cost-effectiveness of Invisalign when you receive information that you do not have to visit an orthodontist to tighten the braces or adjust because no wires or bands exist. In contrast, you merely replace the aligners on your teeth after every two weeks and see dentists at the Gilbert dental offices once every six to eight weeks to assess your progress and collect a fresh batch of aligners to continue your treatment. The fewer dental visits result in less expenditure to make Invisalign treatment cost-effective than traditional orthodontics. In addition, Invisalign therapy straightens your teeth faster and enables you to achieve your goal comfortably and conveniently without feeling embarrassed at having a mouthful of metal in your mouth. However, eating ice cream or foods with Invisalign aligners over your teeth is restricted. Nevertheless, it is a small price to pay for the comfort and convenience when trying to have straighter teeth without dental infections accompanying them affecting you.
If you want to straighten your teeth, Coral Pointe Dental & Orthodontics can help by providing Invisalign clear aligners to give you the better teeth you desire. However, eating foods with Invisalign aligners on your teeth is a no-go. You can have all the foods you want without the aligners over your teeth even as you progress through treatment. If you can endure the minor inconvenience, kindly contact the dental office seeking Invisalign therapy for teeth straightening.