My Invisalign trays aren't gripping on my two top front teeth - can my dent!
Question: My Invisalign trays aren't gripping on my two top front teeth - can my dentist make the buttons bigger?
Secondly...if there are larger buttons...how would my dentist get these currently solid buttons off from my teeth? I've read that at the end of the treatment, the dentist grinds the buttons off from the teeth. What about halfway through if they need to be changed?
Answers:
Well it sounds to me that the treatment you have isn't working so you are going to need a refinement. This is where they take more impressions and will send out more trays for you that will fit better. I'm not sure about the whole bigger button thing, I have bigger ones on my molars but the front have very small ones. If you do require larger buttons that would have to come with a refinement as the tray will not be able to accomodate the larger attachment and will probably go further from your teeth. It sounds like you are wearing them for the time needed and that your teeth are not that bad (my trays fit perfectly and I'm on 18 out of 39! I had very bad teeth) so they should be moving.
I got a refinement on my bottom and they removed the attachments to do the impressions and when my new set of trays came in they gave me 2 attachments. The refinement was free and I'm happy that I did it because they fit way better to my teeth and I have noticed better results since getting it. How it works is that your dentist will take his buffering tool and just shave it down. There was no pain what-so-ever, I was really worried about it but it was nothing. My teeth looked back to normal and it felt good to have them off. The two new attachments are on 2 of the teeth that I originally had it on and they have stuck and stuck well. They will stick as long as your dentist does it properly. My tooth was the same after as it was before so the fact that i had an attachment there and had it removed made no difference.