Week 7 and Week 8

 Week 7

Week 8

The past two weeks have gone by quickly. On Tuesday, September 25th, I start my fourth tray! Which means I am approaching 40% completion. I feel pretty lucky that I only have to wear 10 aligners. As most of you do, I have researched this for a while and I still do to see how others have progressed, and I read a few bloggers indicating that they had to do more aligners then originally planned. That worries me. I hope that is not the case for me.

Taking photos once a week has really helped me keep motivated. I compared the photos and can really see a difference, and it makes me glad I did this! If you decide or are in the process of doing this, I highly recommend taking photos once a week.

As far as any issues or anything I have experienced so far, I noticed that my mouth feels dry and my lips do too. I feel I constantly want to drink water, which I guess is a good thing. But I constantly feel like I need to put some chapstick on. Has anyone felt that yet or before?

Also, this is a little too late to be worried about, but how does anyone feel about wearing plastic almost 24 hours a day? I recently saw a movie called "Bag-it", which was a documentary on plastic bags, but it also touched on the subject of plastic and how certain types of plastic are very harmful, for example some of the presence of BPA, and other chemicals.

I didn't ask my dentist this before, but I am interested in knowing if this is a concern for anyone.

Week 6 - Third Tray

This week I started my third Tray. Originally, when I started six weeks ago, my Dr. gave me two trays. I had to wear tray one for three weeks and tray two for three weeks. Now we are at six weeks and I had a visit with him on exactly six weeks. At the visit he checked my progress, and said I was doing excellent.

As you know I am wearing my trays about 22 hours a day. 

I like to think I am the model invisalign wearer, but I can't say I am all the time. There has been a few times in which I will eat dinner, and then completely forget to put them back in, and will remember thirty minutes later. 

He also noticed that the bottom tooth that was pushed back, we are working on pushing it back to the front with the tray, needed a little room to move up. So he used the sanded floss again to floss in between a few teeth in the bottom, so the tooth can slowly move up. The floss doesn't hurt at all.

Because of my progress, he has decided to give me three trays, so I don't have to come back for a check up until nine more weeks.

Here is to the start of the third tray! I was told this is when I would start really seeing some changes.