Ok, well I know its been a while...since July, when I updated last. I have been meaning to get on here more regularly and I know what everyone will say, oh your busy. Well thats not it. The problem I run into is I am living the whole Invisalign experience right now and have been doing it for a while so its not a big deal now and when I think back I have a hard time thinking of anything that I believe anyone will have any desire reading about. What I will do however this post is put out my daily routine and some of the things I have noticed and see if that stirs up any questions, so please if you happen to read this and you have ANY questions at all please leave a comment and I will do my best to get an answer for you.
Daily Routine:
I try to work the schedule where I can start a new tray on Friday nights, it doesn't always work but as close as I can get the better. Why at night? Simple self preservation. When you first put in a new tray there is a few seconds of throbbing discomfort but that subsides quickly for the most part. Once you get used to the tray you notice you have them in but its not on the forefront and it is easy to get to a point where you will forget. Taking them out the first time is not too bad, assuming they have been in long enough for your teeth to start moving, in my case about 6 hours or more is good. Less than that and it does cause some pain taking them out, more and thats greatly reduced. Friday nights because it gives me all weekend to get into the routine of having them in all the time and gives my teeth some good movement time before I have to go to work and my schedule gets crazy. Over the weekend I will literally just take my trays out to eat, so all told they are in for 22 hours or say each day. Once the week hits however my day gets to be hectic and eating / brushing gets to be a chore so I average about 20 hours a day during the week, with all of those off hours during my work day sporatically.
So I put in the new tray at night, normally right after dinner and brushing. I spend all night getting used to the new trays and then go to bed whenever I decide. When I wake up the next morning I go to the bathroom and take my trays out and put them in the efferdint denture cleaner. I then eat a quick breakfast and get showered up. Finally I put the trays back in and continue with my day. I obviously have my tooth brush at home and keep a seperate one at work for while I am there. At lunch I take out my trays and put them in their case, eat a quick lunch and then brush quick and put them back in for the afternoon. At dinner, I take them out again, eat another quick meal, brush and then put them back in for the evening. The longest time they are out is for the shower / breakfast routine in the morning, normally an hour there. The other meals are fairly quick, about 30 minutes each before I put the tray back in.
On weekdays, my routine is the same, with the exception that it is sometimes hard find the time to brush and put them back in. Furthermore, there are certain things that I find I have to have them out for, such as large briefs. Whenever I have to do a long detailed brief, I find that if I have my trays in my mouth dries out faster and I start stumbling over my words more, where as if the trays are out, its not a problem. In that case I take them out right before and put them back in immediately following. Also, and worst of all I find it hard to ensure I have a place to brush some places and as a guy its difficuilt at times to keep everything required on my person. For instance, having to carry the container, a tooth brush, and tooth paste is a bit much. At these times when I don't carry a tooth brush I simply put the trays back in without brushing. I know what you are going to say, thats disgusting. I know, I know, but there are times I just can't brush. I try to minimalize it and try to plan a detour to brush as soon as possible after but it still happens. I don't have a purse afterall to store this stuff, all I have is my pockets.
There have even been times when I have gotten lax and left my trays out for hours on end. I pay for it afterwards when I put the trays back in and I end up having to shift my switch to the next tray but it does happen sometimes. Anyway, so thats my routine.
After looking at the length of this post I am going to split up my thoughts afterall so it doesn't get crazy. More to come on specific topics in a sec....
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