Starting

Well I have been thinking for a while that I needed to do something about my teeth, especially since they keep getting worse. A year or so ago I talked to the dentist on base about invisalign but he said that my case was too severe that it would never work. A few weeks ago I looking into it further and set up an appointment to talk to a specialist near my house. Well yesterday was the day of the appointment.

Well I didn't tell Angie because I didn't want her to really dig too deep if it was something that wasn't going to work. With that said I set my appointment for 8:30am. Well of course I had trouble finding the place so I was running late but they didn't seem to mind at all and just had me fill out the paperwork when I got there.

Once done with the paperwork they took me on a tour of their office and then I sat down with the doctor and we talked about what might be possible. They took some pictures and we talked a bit but basically he said that while invisalign would not be a 100% solution in my case it would get my teeth 90% there. With that done I went into another room and talked further about the options and was told that it would cost $4,800 for the entire treatment, everything included. Well after some talking their said that if I wanted to we could start the process with the molds today.

After calling Angie and talking with her a little bit about it we decided to go ahead and do it. We filled out some more paperwork and then I was ready for the molding process. The first thing we had to do was take some x-rays...well actually about 18 of them, so I sat there while they jammed that tray in my mouth a bunch of times and took a bunch of x-rays. The next task was the pictures, which they started out simply enough except that they have you hold these tongs which pull back your lips in every possible direction so that they can get pictures of all your teeth. The frontal and side pictures were every enough, the inside views though was a little strange. They get those pictures by pushing a mirror in your mouth and taking a picture of what is shown on the mirror. With those complete it was time for the molding. The molding process basically involves large trays which they fill with a synthetic material and then insert your teeth into and hold until it sets, which didn't seem too long but I guess was a minute or two. The process was repeated for both top and bottom sets of teeth.

That complete I was allowed to clean up and be on my way. It will take about a month for Invisalign to configure the trays and mail them out, and be ready for the first tray to be put in. Total time they are estimating is about 14 months, which will place at at next July or so.